Accomodation plans have stalled a little, so on her strict instructions I stayed at JDP's place for one night. She's a playwright from New York living in LA, teaching screenwriting at UCLA and trying to get her TV scripts off the ground and into the twinkling diamond studded stratosphere above the Hollywood hills. It's taken her 3 years so far. She's getting close.
Her boundless enthusiasm and positivity is infectious, even if it does go against the natural grain of my British sense of 'all in good time, old chap'. She is very encouraging and supportive of me and my ambitions, willing to spend whatever time is necessary to teach me how to write drama, and I get the feeling she will do anything she can to help me get on in this town. But I think I need to do as much as possible myself.
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