Okay, this is the big one.  This is the event that got me into the Writers Guild.  This is the time I actually was a professional writer.  And then wasn’t.  Let’s take it back 19 years---

I had completed a script called (at the time) “The Kringle Project”  I was one of those ideas that came to me in a flash, the thing practically wrote itself, I just had to type it.  Fortunately, I took typing in high school.  It was a Christmas comedy that dropped a film noir-type private eye detective in the middle of a Santa-centric mystery.  It was honestly the best thing I had done up ‘til then.