writing. This was nothing like I imagined. Waffle houses are gross. Everyone smoked around me and it was completely unnecessary to write all night because I had plenty of free time during the day. I was just a kid trying to be cool.

During this time, I got an offer for a show runner of a popular sitcom to critique a short film I’d written. I gladly jumped at the chance. I went to a film festival where he taught a class on screen writing and at the end he critiqued my script and two others. During his critique he complimented one thing about my story. He said that it was clear what my character’s goal was right from the beginning. After that he literally had about 400 negativeEmbattled Russian Lawmaker Says Kremlin Behind Bid To Remove Him

Gennady Gudkov, a member of the A Just Russia political party, says the push against him stems from a direct order from the Kremlin to remove his mandate before the opposition's next national political rally.

A 56-year-old former KGB agent -- and still a colonel in the reserves of the Federal Security Service (FSB) -- seems like an unlikely face of Russia's political opposition.

But that is just what Gennady Gudkov, a State Duma deputy with the left-leaning A Just Russia party, has become. Since the December 2011 Duma elections and, particularly, since the March 2012 presidential vote -- both of which Gudkov argues were grossly falsified in favor of Vladimir Putin and his ruling United Russia party -- he has