Hank Washington
Graphic Designer
Concept Artist
3D
Illustrator
Under promise and over deliver. Agnostic serenity prayer. There are three sides to every story. Writing is rewriting.
Listen more than I talk. Don't go full GreenbArg too early.
Thucydides, an Athenian historian and general, said something to the effect of "stories only happen to people who know how to tell them." I know how to tell stories. And, for better or worse, story-worthy things always happen to me.
The first ideas are usually the right ones. But they take refining and researching to turn the phrases perfectly and memorably.
Writing for TV. It's like the book and movie Life of Pi - you're trapped on a lifeboat with a bunch of animals for months trying your darnedest to survive while breaking an entire season of TV. It's the absolute best and worst.
Every narrative project has its own challenges but, through repetition, I've developed a shorthand. Besides, there's only like 9 ways to be funny. If one of the 9 isn't working, try another.
I was given an episode of the Netflix series Paradise PD after being a writers assistant on the show for the first two seasons. In those first two seasons, I pitched stories, plot points, jokes, and dialogue with a success rate that rivaled the best writers in the room.
At a very young age, I learned that a bully doesn't beat up a nerd who makes them laugh. I've been using comedy to avoid pain physical and emotional my entire life.
Anything that doesn't have jokes. It's like being naked in public, I have nothing to hide behind.
I'm an ardent follower of the MAYA principal. Most Advanced Yet Acceptable. The very first thing I do is figure out the upper and lower boundaries and then do my best to play within them.