Yeppers, that’s what the Hollywood Reporter is saying, and we all know it’s always right.
WGA members have either received or are about to receive an email with the details. Nobody at TVWriter™ has gotten theirs yet, but here’s what the Reporter is telling us to expect:
the new three-year deal provides for 2% annual wage increases and a one-time 1.5% increase in employer contributions to the guild’s pension plan.
I’ve talked about beginnings of novels before but recently I’ve seen a few articles on a different angle and had someone ask me how beginnings have changed over the eons of writing. Had another someone, reading an Ebook, comment he didn’t have time to read works like War and Peace because its length depended mainly on long introductions and pages and pages of description that goes on at length about a tilt of a head or small gesture.
It got me to thinking, and reading, and thinking some more.
Here’s the thing. Each way of writing is correct for the era it’s written in. The old classics are mostly filled with long descriptions, some with flowery prose, and the like. It was a different time. And it lingered that way for quite a while. The writer would feed the reader a whole backstory right in the beginning to set the stage. They’d provide lots of description to give a feel for place and time.
Buy this book.
I really mean it. I’ve read it but can’t quantify it. No “Good,” “Not So Good,” cute snarking can cut it when it comes to reviewing this “behind-the-scenes story of the making of the movie Network, which transformed the way we think about television and the way television thinks about us.”
Of course, I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out the ultimate irony of the Amazon listing of a book titled Mad as Hell: The Making of Network and the Fateful Vision of the Angriest Man in Movies.
My neo-noir action thriller, “Resurrection of Serious Rogers” heads to NYC to be screened at the BREAKTHROUGH FESTIVAL an independent film festival organized by the filmmaker Sujewa Ekanayake of Sri Lanka.
But don’t take our word for it. Get thyself straight over HERE and read what the site’s editors have to say.
Whew. That was one tough post to write…okay, so it wasn’t. But finding it wasn’t exactly a stroll through the woods. And convincing ourselves to actually post this instead of keeping it to our greedy, ambitious little selves…well, that took us to the limit of our endurance and generosity.