So before I was a TV writer, I was a street poet… John published two collections of our poems, which we all got to sell out on Telegraph Avenue. The earliest writing I can document dates from my first years in high school, when I was in one of John Oliver Simon’s earliest poetry-in-the-schools workshops. When and how did you first start writing? I think the standard answer is “I’ve been writing as long as I remember,” and I’m afraid I’m going to have to stick with the clich√©. He currently teaches screenwriting in UC Riverside-Palm Desert’s creative writing MFA program and TV writing at Writers University (next WU session starts on July 13). Rabkin has been a freelancer, a showrunner, and everything in between. Rabkin started writing for TV 20 years ago with a spec he sold to Spenser: For Hire, and has been working ever since. The first, Psych: A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Read, was published by NAL in January of this year, and he is currently writing the third: The Call of the Mild. Write On! speaks with writer William Rabkin, who just released his second Psych novel: Psych: Mind Over Magic, based on the TV show.
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