If Three People Say You’re Drunk; Or, How To Listen to Your Audience by Maggie Herskowitz (@Maggie_Julienne)

I remember the first time I was given notes as a television writer. I was pitching a spec script for the show Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, starring Kevin Sorbo. I had the episode set in the dead of winter, starting with an evil wizard conjuring up an abominable snowman that was going to fight Hercules.

I had an alternate take for a potential plot-twist though: it was never actually an abominable snowman, but actually just a group of harmless woodland creatures who had accidentally gotten tangled up in a giant snowball during the snowstorm and were inadvertently wreaking havoc.