On-strike writers from The Daily Show speak out today on the United Hollywood site, run by WGA strikers.
In the meantime, keep on keeping your eyes on this blog for updates on the strike...
And please do enjoy an article by Garrison Keillor, courtesy of Salon.com, titled "Author at Work." This is a guy who understands what it's like to write a book under a deadline (a subject uncomfortably close to my heart these days),. Funny -- I discovered the necessity of long walks, too.
MS Word went berserk today and ate two of my precious pages. I know why it happened -- a recent update caused it to lose my custom settings, and make repeated backup copies (the dreaded "Work Files") of my 1MB+ BLOODIEST QUEEN document. About 50 copies, as a matter of fact -- thus the memory snafu and the lost pages.
Add that to the carpet cleaner, two unwanted solicitors, a relative in crisis, and a car with a nail in its right front tire, and you'll understand why yours truly didn't quite make her page quota today. Being a resoundingly type-A individual who just happens to be really, really late on a book deadline, I can't stop my left eye from twitching...
I'm shutting the windows, locking the door (can you tell I live in a really small town?) and turning the phone off tomorrow...
