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Old 11-05-2007, 05:27 PM
daveT daveT is offline
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Default Re: Screen Writers Guild Strike?

I am not hating!

I think it is that most screenwriters feel like they aren't accomplishing anything with their script just sitting there. I would be ecstatic to get 10k a year for having my script sit on someone's desk. Funny thing all over Hollywood. Some actors actually make their living by going on and failing auditions and some screenwriters make their living optioning scripts. Put five out on option and make 50k for the next five years? Sounds nice to me.

I have wrote screenplays and I can appreciate how hard it is. I understand that writers are writing for the goal of seeing their work on screen, not for the money, and when I say congrats they get mad at me for this reason. Artists as a whole are a semi-depressed bunch, you know?
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