Chapter 9
Colby didn’t answer right away. Jason cursed himself. He’d put that flinch in place.
“I didn’t come up with the story,” Colby said. “Someone else wrote the first treatment—Ashley Bryant, who went on to work on Twirl, that high-school flag squad sitcom, you know—but then Ben took a crack at it when Jill came on, and that was the version I auditioned for, but…well…once we started…he’s marvelous at overall structure and shape, but the details and dialogue…some lines weren’t quite…”
“So you fixed them.”
“I wouldn’t’ve said anything, except I accidentally said one of my own lines instead of the script version, and everyone thought it was hilarious in the moment, and then Jill caught me making notes before the next scene, and she asked to see my version, and…”
“How much of it’s yours?”
“More than it ought to’ve been,” Colby admitted. “As far as attribution and credits. I’ve never asked for that, though.”