Talking As Fast As I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls (and Everything in Between)

Graham explains that she found herself in a strange sense of limbo after the filming of Parenthood wrapped for good; she wasn’t sure how to spend her time. However, her writing career began to gain momentum, as did Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life (the sequel to the original series). At that point, she found herself missing the days when she had more time on her hands.

One day, when she was talking with her friend and fellow screenwriter, Dan Bucatinksy, and discussing her difficulty with so many deadlines, he told her to call Don Roos, creator of M.Y.O.B. She reached out to Don to ask for advice on being more productive with her writing, and he laid out the Kitchen Timer method. This method is Roos’s “variation on the Pomodoro technique […] and [it has] transformed the way [Graham] write[s]” (144). The primary goal of this technique is to give writers at least an hour of uninterrupted writing time. The writer should have a journal on hand and a current project in mind. If there is no current project, a journal alone will suffice. Then, a kitchen timer, or a timer on one’s phone, is set for an hour.