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[cloudselkie]

Back in 2007, I WAS one of those people who had trash takes about the writer's strike and it essentially killed my favorite show at the time (Heroes - it was never as good after). I was so mad at the time. I was also 18 and came from a sheltered, conservative household and thought they were just being greedy.

Don't be 18 year old me.

You're going to have shows that suffer. You're going to lose shows. But TV shows are not as important as people making a living wage and having safe working conditions. Don't have trash takes like I did in 2007. If you love your shows, support the writers. And if shows end or get bad after this, remember, it's not their fault. It's capitalism and greedy networks that kill art, not the artists.

Things you CAN do during the writer's strike:

- Voice your support for the striking screenwriters on social media

- Don't watch the junk filler (*cough*REALITY SHOWS*cough*) networks will throw in the timeslots of shows affected by the strike

- Cancel streaming subscriptions until the strike ends.

No boycott has been sanctioned by WGA at this time. This is called a wildcat boycott and can damage the residuals writers are currently receiving. This was bad information on my part and I apologize. I have a very large follower base and it is my responsibility to make sure correct information is presented. Thank you to @whyismangososour for holding me accountable.

- Educate friends and family who are upset about the strike (and why it isn't just the writers "being greedy" or whatever other nonsense they come up with)

#writer's strike #wga strike #support screenwriters #worker's rights

[writingwithfolklore]

Stripping away Supports

                In classic outlining structure, the midpoint is where your MC loses all the advantages they’d relied on up until that point—allies, resources, powers, etc. In fact, this structure is used in so many films that the ‘characters fight at the midpoint’ is an easily found cliché throughout media.

                However, there are other ways of stripping away your MC’s supports to achieve the same effect.

They fight

Okay I know I just implied we might want to avoid this, but why fix what’s not broke? The important part about following the ‘characters fight at the midpoint’ trope is to ensure the fight doesn’t start at the midpoint, but rather starts from the very moment the characters are seen with each other/meet. The fight should be about something that’s been brewing underneath all of their interactions from the beginning—the one thing they should’ve talked about but didn’t. The ‘elephant in the room’.

                This fight is less of a fight but an unearthing of feelings, thoughts, and problems that have always been there, but have been ignored or avoided up until then. What’s the event that unearths these truths? Typically, something threatening or scary causes people to speak ‘out of turn’…

2. The protagonist chooses to go on alone

Something big happened, something so dangerous and scary that the protagonist intentionally pushes away their allies in order to protect them… Of course, later they might realize that they are stronger together anyway. This is also a bit of a cliché, but done thoughtfully can be very impactful.

3. The allies are in over their head

The reversal of the last trope, instead of the protagonist pushing their allies away, the allies decide this quest is far too dangerous and risky for them… The protagonist is abandoned by their allies. Later, these supports may return, their love for the protagonist stronger than their fear of the situation, but whatever happened must have spooked them bad enough to lead them to betrayal.

4. An integral piece they’ve been relying on has been destroyed

The hideout was found and torched, the old man’s journal was tossed into the sea, the leader/mentor/keeper of information has been kidnapped or killed. Maybe the allies and the protagonist are still together, but one important thing that’s been keeping them together or leading them has been lost, now they have to adapt and improvise on the fly if they wish to continue their quest.

5. An integral piece they’ve been relying on turned out to not be true or important

Similar to the last but with a bit of a twist. They’ve been following the wrong lead all along—where to go next now that the very foundation of their quest is crumbling beneath them?

          

What are some other ways of fulfilling the midpoint reversal?

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[ohihopeicanchangethislater]

In all kindness, f*ck anyone that doesn't take the strike seriously. The fact that people think that the writers and actors of their favorite shows don't deserve living wages, and they would rather bootlick studio execs who don't give two shits about them is absolutely delusional.

I can understand being indifferent to the strike, though I don't agree with it. Some people just don't follow show business, and the writing process in particular, and don't really know what's going on. Okay fine whatever.

But to actually be opposed to the strike, harassing writers and supporters online (and hopefully not in person) saying they are just being whiny entitled brats who should just get a real job, you've got to be a unique breed of scum.

I responded to someone online with what I wrote below, and I liked it so I wanted to share it here.

Enjoy my Strike Support Manifesto, "In their shoes"

okay so imagine your job, that you've worked at for years, suddenly says "hey guys we only need you for a few months every year, good luck the rest of the time" and they hardly pay you anything for work you've already done. Now imagine you want to try to change that, because you want to keep working at your dream job that you've worked your whole life to get, but your boss just says, "nah, you can lose your house and starve, I want to keep all of the money we earn" so you decide to go on strike, to protest a change to the system in a changing world. But some ignorant people on the internet just tell you to give up and just go get another job. Forget about all of your schooling and training and years of experience in your chosen field, these losers on the internet don't think that means shit, because you're being a whiny baby for standing up for what you believe to be honest work. Kindly put yourself in their shoes and shut up

#seriously f them #strike support manifesto #part 1 #wga strike #wga support #wga solidarity #wga strong #support the wga #i stand with the wga #wga #actors strike #sagwga strike #sag strike #writers strike #sag aftra strike #sag aftra #sag #screenwriting #screenwriters #actors #why tf is instagram so toxic #i replied this to someone on one of michael jamin's posts about the strike #michael jamin

[the-technicolor-yawn]

fun fact I ACTUALLY DO NOT CARE THAT THERE WONT BE NEW MOVIES AND TELEVISION UNTIL THE STRIKE ENDS

#sag strike #writer’s strike #hollywood #filmmaking #screenwriting #acting #cinema #film #pay your actors #pay your writers #union strong #wga strike #support the wga #wgat the fuck #sag aftra

[punk-dad-sharkz]

stupid hyped that the WGA was able to get a deal with studios!!!! an article I read said that they wanted a minimum raise of 5% to 6% and studios only wanted to give one of 2% to 4%, and they compromised for 3.5% to 5% !!!

Article I read here!

Such a big win for all the writers!! As a fellow writer, I am quite ecstatic!!! Hopefully this means more studios will gain brains and the SAG & other groups attempting to unionize/have unionized will have their needs met!!

aaaaaa im so happy!

#wga strike #sag aftra #sag strike #support the wga #i stand with the wga #i stand with sag aftra #writers #screenwriter #actors strike #writers strike #i literally wouldn't shut up about this to all my friends at school today

[vcendent]

art vs industry

Sometimes I'm having a good day, but then sometimes I think about how industry is actively killing creative fields and that goes away. People no longer go to woodworkers for tables and chairs and cabinets, but instead pick from one of hundreds of mass-produced designs made out of cheap particle board instead of paying a carpenter for furniture that is both made to last generations and leaves room for customization. With the growth of population and international trade, the convenience and low production costs are beneficial in some aspects, but how many local craftsmen across the world were put out of business? How many people witnessed their craft die before their eyes? There is no heart or identity put into mass produced items; be it furniture, ceramics, metalwork, or home decor; and at the end of the day everybody ends up with the same, carbon copy stuff in their homes.

I'm a big fan of animated movies, and I see this same thing happening too. When was the last time western audiences saw a new 2D animated movie hit theatres? I can't speak for other countries, but, at least in America, I believe The Princess and the Frog was the last major 2D movie released and that was back in 2009. Major studios nowadays are unwilling to spend the time and money that it would take to pay traditional animators who have spent years honing their craft to go frame by frame, and to pay painters to create scene backgrounds. We talk a lot about machines replacing jobs, but when the machines come, artistry professions are some of the first to be axed (in part because industry does not see artistry as "valuable" professions). Art, music, and writing are no longer seen as "real" jobs because they belong to the creative field and there's this inane idea that anyone who goes into those fields will be unsuccessful and starving. I'm not saying that 3D animation is bad, it has its own merits and required skills and can be just as impressive as anything 2D, but it has smothered 2D animation and reduced it largely to studios that cannot afford the tech to animate 3D.

And now we have this whole AI thing to deal with, stealing existing artists' work to "train" it to take over those few professions that, until now, required actual people to do them. Internet artists have already been dealing with people complaining about the price of art for years and now have to face their work being stolen to train AI. With AI technology, anyone who undervalues the work of the artist can now get something generated at little or no cost to them, all at the expense of the artists themselves. Why would studios pay script writers when they could just get an algorithm to do it without pay? Why pay actors to bring characters to life or pay models to pose for ads when CGI has progressed enough we could digitally render humans and cut out having to pay people entirely? Why use practical effects or film on location when green screens and adding in-post is faster and so much cheaper? It's no wonder we had the SAG-AFTRA strike. AI has already been trained to write children's books and produce music, continuing down this road will replace authors and musicians too at the convenience of cost. How much longer until the actual, real-life people behind all forms of artistry become completely obsolete?

Industry is just driving the cost of people-made crafts up and up with every mass produced product and every streamlined shortcut to reduce costs, which only makes it harder and harder for artists of all kinds to make a living, as very few people want to pay for the time and skill of artists when they could just pick something off a shelf or feed AI a prompt and get something satisfactory enough, yet not what they actually wanted, for so much cheaper.

#this isnt my usual type of post but this genuinely upsets me #my rants #industry is killing creative fields #art #writing #acting #screenwriting #animation #2d animation #3d animation #crafts #ai #ai generation #sag aftra #sag afra strike #pay your writers #pay your artists #pay your craftsmen #support all forms of artistry

[david-talks-sw]

WGA writers on strike, picketing in front of Disney.

Passing cars, all beeping in support! 🙌

Ya love to see it!

#fuck yeah #i stand with the wga #support the wga #screenwriting

[aelinox]

everyone who wants to write for the industry someday, say thank you to the wga strike going on right now. they’re fighting for our future just as much as theirs. support them in every way you can.

#wga strike #support the wga #wga solidarity #screenwriting #future screenwriters

[filmcourage]

Why Beginning Artists Shouldn't Analyze Their Work When Creating - Sasha Patpatia

#screenwriting #filmmaking #writers on tumblr #writing #artists #filmmakers on tumblr #screenwriters on tumblr #artists on tumblr #art process #digital artist #support indie creators #creative writing #content creator #singersongwriter #creator appreciation #musician #talent #authors #personal growth #personal goals #mindset #personal development

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[thestarlightforge]

Really useful interview with a rep from WGA-East with info for pre-WGA writers:

#wga strong #wga solidarity #wga strike #i stand with the wga #wga west #wga east #support the wga #theatre #filmmaking #screenwriting #pro union

[vantesa]

Pause for Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice.. My favorite princess babygirl evil puppy femme fatale ever to be Lestat — Sam reid — is back. And it’s so Great that AMC it’s doing the promotion they deserve. So happy, really!!!!

#interview with the vampire #sam reid #lestat #still support screenwriters and actors #they are OUR FUTURE #sga strike #wga strong

[jackgoodfellow]

I will stop posting WIPs for this piece when I stop spending hours a day on it (a few more days), and/or when I stop having insomnia (possibly never), and/or when I stop being gay (definitely never).

York: "Aw, that's just beautiful. I'm so glad our son can witness true love firsthand."

Jancy: [is a genius detective but cannot deduce how to not be gay and awkward. Luckily, Joe is the kind of person who finds this incredibly endearing.]

Joe's shirt buttons: [valiantly fighting a losing goshdarn battle]

Also today I got good news about my partner's health for the first time in literal years and I cried from happiness so much I had an autistic meltdown from HAPPINESS. Which is the absolute weirdest combination of sensations and is still very painful but I hardly had energy to care because I was so so happy; so in short I also drew some big orc titties and I am excited to finish up the shading tomorrow hopefully and also I am gay. Thank you for coming to my presentation in the alley behind a TED talk event.

#me: [is a lesbian] #Drawtectives #jancy true #truebeans #drawtectives s2 #fan art #fanart #i spent so so long on this and it has been kind of nice to take all the time i want on it #i am yelling in the back of this proverbial alley and standing on a box of tampons and it is unclear how it is supporting my weight #entry fee is whatever is in your left pocket or a secret that you had when u were a child that you now realize was actually harmless #when i leave you open the tampon box and there is a small snake inside and it talks to you about commonly misused screenwriting #*screenwriting techniques in Star Wars #see jack talk #i made the hair a mix of smooth and spiky.

[vasiktomis]

High-profile award-winning game writer advocating for writers strike when his studio didn't even pay us for our drafts -- a whopping $250 dollars.

Director who hired me to re-write all 6 episodes of his series, insisting on paying me in exposure, and then doing the same to a younger screenwriter with his next series, ALSO advocating for writers strike.

Do y'all think we're fucking stupid.

#as a screenwriter im all for the WGA strike but holy shit #the loud support of it from people who dont even practice paying writers is insane #red.txt

[mariocki]

Katy Manning - in her first ever screen role, and credited as Katie - makes awful coffee and has a good nose at some industrial action, in Softly Softly: Task Force: Standing Orders (1.8, BBC, 1970)

#fave spotting #katy manning #jo grant #softly softly: task force #doctor who #classic doctor who #standing orders #alan plater #bbc #the awful coffee thing is referenced several times in dialogue for some reason‚ it isn't just me being a dick #katy's part here is fairly negligible at a glance‚ but this is a fascinating episode of SSTF. I've found this first series deeply uneven so #far‚ beginning with a couple of brilliant‚ razor sharp scripts from series creator Elwyn Jones‚ but followed by a few really duff #eps by Robert Barr‚ who seems to have seized the procedural aspect of the series and clung to it so his episodes depict fairly dull #routine work for the characters. my heart jumped‚ then‚ when the opening credits for this episode announced Alan Plater as the writer #Plater was truly one of our greatest screenwriters and deserves to be mentioned alongside Rosenthal and Potter (but rarely is‚ perhaps #because he contributed so much to genre work or bc he did so much freelance for other series like this‚ rather than concentrating on his #own original creations all the time). this is well before Beiderbecke made his name‚ but he was already an established writer and so #presumably well known for the socialist views that inform much of his work (even freelancing). doubly surprising then‚ considering this #episode follows on immediately from 1.7 The Aggro Boy‚ an Allan Prior script that's interesting as a document on attitudes and approaches #to football hooliganism in 1970‚ but which has a highly Conservative bent and contains dialogue which seems to support increased powers of #policing‚ the return of national service‚ and a general despair with 'modern society'. Prior's script couldn't be further from Plater's #beliefs‚ but to his credit this episode (concerning labour disputes and unofficial strikes) does its damndest to remain neutral (mostly #through the figure of Norman Bowler's Insp Hawkins who will not be drawn into taking sides). i suppose it's testament to Plater's #professionalism; he was after all a guest writer on a mildly conservative cop show‚ not to mention writing for the BBC (always at pains to #appear politically neutral). his characters are varied‚ with good and bad on both sides of the debate; there are bad managers and trouble #makers on the picket‚ as well as sympathetic bosses and earnest union men. if Plater does allow his leftwing bias to show (and it's only #briefly) it's in scenes where Hawkins is goaded by his superiors into betraying his own sympathies: something he explicitly refuses to do #so where does Katy come in? what does her character represent? if anything i think she represents the disinterested masses #the idle onlookers; her secretary character is not directly involved in the shop disputes and spends most of the episode watching the men #from the window with half curiosity and half boredom. and she does it superbly!