I created this site for two reasons:

1) So YOU (or someone you know) might be inspired to write across different mediums, which is why I included a lot of helpful tips and links along the way to light a path.

2) So people (including me) could easily find and share my essays, books, interviews, advice, and favorite photos (like this one from an early morning in Central Park on Fleishman Is In Trouble).

My writing process is writing TO process:

I can't write a comic memoir or essay if I think about writing for a mass audience. I have to think in terms of stories I would share with friends, and I try to write as if I'm talking to friends -- people who already know me and love me. People I can be vulnerable with. I think about what would make my friends laugh out loud, what I'm embarrassed to admit, and what I feel guilty or conflicted about. I do my best writing when I don't have the answers (which is almost always). When I'm still in crisis and trying to see my way through. I guess I write to process (grief, heartbreak, embarrassment), and in doing so, and putting it out there, I hope to make others who are going through something similar feel less alone.

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A prolific storyteller across many mediums, CINDY CHUPACK has won two Emmys and three Golden Globes for her work as a writer/producer of shows including Sex and the City, Modern Family, Everybody Loves Raymond, Better Things, Divorce, and most recently Fleishman is in Trouble. She made her feature directing debut in 2018 with her film OTHERHOOD (starring Angela Bassett, Patricia Arquette and Felicity Huffman), which is available on Netflix.

She has performed stories for The Moth; written essays featured in the New York Times' Modern Love column; guested on NPR's "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me!"; had her own relationship column in both Glamour and O, The Oprah Magazine; and authored two comic memoirs: the NYT bestseller "The Between Boyfriends Book: A Collection of Cautiously Hopeful Essays," and "The Longest Date: Life as a Wife.” Her first children's picture book, "We Waited for You," was just released on July 11, 2023.

Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Cindy received a degree from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, then moved to New York City to work in advertising right out of college. She sold her first humorous essay to New York Woman magazine in 1990, and that piece was spotted by a TV producer who encouraged her to pursue comedy writing, which she’s been doing ever since.

A co-leader of The Los Angeles Giving Circle (which supports The States Project in its effort to elect majority-making candidates who will shift the balance of power in state legislatures across the country), Cindy lives in Marina del Rey, California, with her 12-year-old daughter, Olivia. She is also working with Northwestern University Archives to house her life's work (which has been very validating to her mother who saved everything she ever wrote).

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