Second Life Podcast: Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan

Cocks' initial path was that of a journalist. She joined the college paper at Notre Dame, and subsequently landed a job covering personal finance and high tech at the Austin daily paper, the Austin American-Statesman. The experience taught her something valuable. While she loved writing, she didn’t love reporting; “I didn't like pushing for a story...I always felt like I was a bother,” she remembers. Cocks made her way from Austin to LA to work at Television Without Pity (formerly known as Mighty Big TV) where she’d work as a television recapper for shows like MTV’s Making The Band.Â

Meanwhile, Morgan had been working at a startup website, as a copywriter, penning more product descriptions than she cared for. "There's only so many ways you can describe a lamp" she remembers. Seeking more creativity, she too found her way to Television Without Pity. “Those recaps were very useful for me and Heather, as we moved into working in television and into writing novels, because when you are taking 20 pages to describe one episode of television, you're really critically looking at every aspect of creating and telling a story,” she says. It was there the two would start writing together and create their now infamous blog, Go Fug Yourself.

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Olivia Cappelletti