I apologize, but my posting is going to be a little light this week so I can spend as much time as possible working on my novel.
If you haven’t yet seen this video about the Writers Guild of America strike from the Daily Show writers, it’s worth watching, both for the humor and for the inside perspective.
Also, take a moment to read Joss Whedon’s response to the New York Times on the writers’ strike:
“We’re talking about story-telling, the most basic human need. Food? That’s an animal need. Shelter? That’s a luxury item that leads to social grouping, which leads directly to fancy scarves. But human awareness is all about story-telling. The selective narrative of your memory. The story of why the Sky Bully throws lightning at you. From the first, stories, even unspoken, separated us from the other, cooler beasts. And now we’re talking about the stories that define our nation’s popular culture – a huge part of its identity. These are the people that think those up. Working writers.”
(via Deep Genre)
(Edit: If you liked the video above, here’s another one from the writers of the Colbert Report.)
