Jane's earliest writing endeavours

I’m originally from Mid West and I went to college in Northern California. While I was up there studying, I learned that you could submit spec scripts, sort of sample episodes, to Star Trek Next: The Next Generation without an agent, so I started writing those and sending them in.

They liked one of them enough that they invited me to come down and pitch story ideas to them, so I started doing that. I sold an idea to them, got an agent and got into the Disney Writer’s fellowship which is a programme that Disney has to help new television writers. They got me hired on one of their shows, Dinosaurs, and the rest is not very well known history.

I worked on a number of sitcoms, Dinosaurs, Monty, Me and the Boys etc., so I used to write a bunch of shows you’ve never heard of. I [then] decided I wanted to make the switch to drama and I got hired on Buffy.