I always wonder what it takes to sustain a career just writing crap scripts for brainless movies like Daddy Day Camp. Or writing for very strictly formulaic TV shows like CSI or Two and a Half Men. Do people who write this stuff have rich careers that are mostly invisible to the public, or do they eventually get lost in the shuffle because they don’t produce anything of substance and can assumedly be replaced by “mildly-autistic crack addicts”? Just wondering; good article BTW.

One thing you didn’t elaborate upon are the notes a studio itself can give the writers. My only industry contact that actually has a career (Samuel L. Jackson, Christina Ricci and others have actually performed his words on screen) gets pissed on. He let me read a pilot he wrote for HBO and the studio notes that accompanied it showed incompetence as to what needs to be in a good story.

Looks like Film Junk’s hiring standards have become more stringent after I was hired.

Your post was so perfect, no one has any comment to complain about anything or call you names.

BTW, I wonder why “Mary-Kate Olsen To Fly Solo on Weeds” is considered to be a related post.