Day Three on the line. The sun comes out and hits us pretty hard halfway through the shift, so I followed the lead of another strike captain who brought Trivial Pursuit cards to the line to pass out to circling picketers.

I brought a sleeve of Pop Culture edition and shouted, “Without you, this stack of cards wouldn’t exist! If you find yourself or a friend of yours mentioned in this card, please shout BINGO, because you win!”

I’ve got fifty people on my line, give or take. Fifty random people of the 12,000 in the guild. And within an hour, we had a bingo. Christine Zander, a writer on Samantha Who? found an episode of 3rd Rock From the Sun, which was written by her as a question on the card.

Justine Bateman joined our line today. Wearing her SAG shirt, and walking the circle.

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I got spam email from Creative Screenwriting magazine, with a subject line reading: “How To Break Into TV Writing–And Why It’s Urgent To Start Now!” I thought it would be an amusing little letter about the strike.

I was dead wrong.

The Writers Strike Doesn’t Mean Stop Working; It Means Start Preparing Now

The writers’ strike doesn’t mean stop working. It means get ready and start writing for the Spring TV pitch season. If you want to land one of today’s wonderfully creative (and highly compensated) TV show writing jobs, then you need the November-December issue of Creative Screenwriting Magazine.

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American Gangster: the fascinating inside story from Steve Zaillian on how and why he wrote TWO side-by-side screenplays and merged them into one.

Days of Atonement: how writer Christopher Hampton and director Joe Wright worked together after Wright challenged Hampton to be more faithful to the book.

Making The Kite Runner Fly: how David Benioff kept the essence of a novel that spans decades in a 120-page screenplay.

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Publisher
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Creative Screenwriting News
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phone: (323) 957-1405

You know, I just got back from walking, shouting, organizing and motivating for hours and hours outside the gates of the lot where I loved my job. And then this. He sent the wrong girl his newsletter. I couldn’t help but hit reply.

Dear Bill Donovan,

Hey, thanks for supporting the strike. Seriously, you couldn’t even ask the aspiring screenwriters and tv writers to come on down to the line and meet a few of the people they’re trying to join one day? Instead of staying in and writing, they could be on the line, fighting for the contract they’re going to have to sign as soon as they’re done “landing” one of today’s most “highly compensated” writing jobs. And if they’re not in a city where there are studios to picket? You could encourage them to write letters, explain the strike to friends, and get them educated on what exactly it is the WGA is working hard to get for your readers.

And by the way — the strike does, in fact, mean STOP WORKING.

Unbelievable.

Pamela Ribon
TV Writer
WGA Member
currently walking the line for the people who BUY YOUR MAGAZINE.

I mean, honestly.

Thanks to everybody who has written to give their support, and have come out to the line to tell the writers you’re behind them. I really hope this strike ends soon. I miss my job.