Diane's Book Manuscript

Lore & Background

Diane's career as a writer begins with her being hired by BoJack's publisher to ghostwrite his memoir. She had previously written a biography of Secretariat, BoJack's childhood hero. While writing BoJack's memoir, she and BoJack develop a strong friendship that becomes strained after BoJack develops romantic feelings for her. After her work on the memoir, she travels to the war-torn Republic of Cordovia to make a difference, but returns after discovering Sebastian St. Clair, the supposed humanitarian who invited her there to write about his work, is an egomaniac who does not actually care about helping people as much as he cares about his legacy. Ashamed of returning to Mr. Peanutbutter, she enters into a severe depression, during which she drinks heavily, smokes pot, and sleeps disheveled on BoJack's patio furniture. She is able to reconcile her feelings with Mr. Peanutbutter and gets a job at VIM ghostwriting tweets for celebrities. She is subsequently fired from VIM, and is hired to write for a feminist blog. In season 6 Diane starts a relationship with her coworker, a Bison named Guy, and decides to move in with him in Chicago. She begins writing a new memoir that leads her back into her recurring depression. She combats this with antidepressants (which itself leads to a noticeable weight gain) but these stall her progress on her memoir, which she eventually abandons in favor of a teen fiction series called Ivy Tran: Food Court Detective. She eventually moves to Houston with Guy and is revealed in the series finale to have married him.

In Their Own Story

Diane sits in her run-down studio apartment after separating from Mr. Peanutbutter. She begins writing a new memoir that leads her back into her recurring depression. She combats this with antidepressants, which leads to a noticeable weight gain, but these stall her progress on her memoir. She eventually abandons the memoir in favor of a teen fiction series called Ivy Tran: Food Court Detective.

Reader's Guide

Diane's writing career follows a specific trajectory. She starts as a ghostwriter for BoJack's memoir, having previously written a biography of Secretariat. After this, she travels to Cordovia to write about Sebastian St. Clair's humanitarian work, but returns disillusioned. She then works at VIM ghostwriting tweets for celebrities before being fired. She subsequently writes for a feminist blog. In season 6, she begins writing a new memoir but abandons it in favor of a teen fiction series called Ivy Tran: Food Court Detective. Her writing is deeply personal and often leads her back into depression. She uses antidepressants to combat this, but they stall her progress.

Did You Know?

• Diane is a Vietnamese-American third-wave feminist from Boston, Massachusetts, born March 19, 1980.
• She was hired by BoJack's publisher to ghostwrite his memoir, having previously written a biography of Secretariat.
• Diane traveled to the war-torn Republic of Cordovia to write about Sebastian St. Clair's humanitarian work.
• She eventually abandoned her memoir in favor of a teen fiction series called Ivy Tran: Food Court Detective.
• In the series finale, Diane is revealed to have married Guy and moved to Houston.