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Write stuff: how one man turned his love of storytelling into a career as a television sitcom writer.(your future)(Ed Evans)
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Scholastic Choices
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April 1, 2005
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Growing up, Ed Evans never imagined that someday he'd be writing scripts for the Disney Channel's top-rated television show, That's So Raven. 'I always liked to make up stories as a kid," Ed, 35, tells Choices. "But I never thought I'd become a sitcom writer."
As a child, Ed used his creativity to invent scenarios and plotlines with his toys. It was also a time that he started to write for fun. "When I was bored, my dad would get notebooks and tell me to write stuff about what I did at school or how my weekend was," Ed says. He got more practice by sending letters to his grandmother who lived in Jamaica.
In college, Ed studied business and journalism, but neither ...
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