People have been predicting what the Writers Guild members would do during the strike...humor columns, illicit scripts, blogs. Most of the guesses were jokes, and it looks like that in less than a week, pretty much all were right.
My heart goes out to these guys--especially when Rachel Axler says, "But we’ve given up our salaries and our jobs — easily the only jobs we’re qualified for — to stand outside and yell at people." If I were funnier on the spot, I like to think that I would have tried the TV writing thing. I love publishing, but I'm not sure I'd be in it if I could hack it as a real writer. And I definitely sympathize with the "but this is the only thing I'm good at!" vibe. So this week's project may be doing something nice for the strike people. Something other than avoiding the few reality shows that aren't scripted.
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