Not a fan of Shonda Rhimes or pretty much anything she's done (I love political television, but I just can't watch Scandal). Though, if there are other people around who enjoy film/screenwriting and like watching interviews/process type things, the Academy Originals youtube channel has a series called "Creative Spark" - some of the people featured are meh, some are neat. I personally got a kick out of Eric Roth's episode. I found Paul Haggis' notion of "fooling yourself" into different processes to get work done funny and particularly relatable. I enjoy seeing different workflows and creative processes. Some people seem to be stoically attached to a schedule or a certain setting, others seem to drift along as they write. All pretty interesting. Sometimes it's enjoyable to try and adapt some of the workflows into your own, though I've never known a workflow to be a guarantee of anything.
Beneath the comic the creator of the comic explains a bit. I hadn't heard about Shonda Rhimes before today, is there anything I need to know about her?
There's almost nothing I can say that won't come back to bite me. Suffice it to say I know Disney and a friend has been credited on a Shonda Rhimes show. Look. Hollywood is Jewish as fuck. Shonda Rhimes went to USC - got an MFA there. If you did that today you'd be looking at $300k in diplomas alone. I personally think she's a talentless hack - which used to be the majority opinion - but that didn't stop her from getting Jada Pinkett and Omar Epps to star in her debut short film in nineteen fucking ninety eight. Sure, work hard. But being a deeply privileged minority woman at a company known for its culture of misogynistic racism is a little more complex than "work hard." Hollywood is full of talentless hacks. If you know someone, you fail upward. If you don't, you wash out. Shonda Rhimes has been a much better person to know than, say, Tyler Perry for a long damn time. Talent or no, that's a complex issue.