![]() When the strike turned to dust a project Donal Lardner Ward was pitching, he decided to dust off what he called the 40-year “elephant in the room.” The quest for respect goes back to the earliest days of Hollywood. The current fight between writers and their studio bosses is nothing new. Just ask Chandler, Faulkner and Fitzgerald “I’m really allowing it to just be a creative exercise that I’m enjoying.”Ĭompany Town Hollywood was built on the work of underappreciated writers. For me, a pivot has been thinking about the internality of character. “In screenwriting, it’s so much about what can you actually see is onscreen. I’ve done a lot of grounded contemporary stuff for my professional career, but I have all of this time, so I figured, let me try something that feels completely out of left field for me.”īeyond her novel being “set in a world different from our own,” Futterman said the project is allowing her to stretch in other ways. I especially love reading a lot of fantasy. “I’ve been sort of afraid to try for a while,” she said. But rather than dive into another script, she decided to try her hand at another creative passion, a fantasy novel. When the strike began, the Santa Monica-based Futterman, whose work includes the Netflix series “Ginny & Georgia” and the Lifetime feature “Black Girl Missing,” had just finished the script for a pilot and was just hours from sending it. I struggle to process the world without making stories out of it. “Even when I am telling myself I don’t need to go write a new sample or a new pilot, there is just something about my writer brain that everything I encounter ends up becoming, ‘Oh, can I make a story out of this?’” “I struggle to process the world without making stories out of it,” she said. “I hope these teenagers find meaning in what they’re going through, through their writing.”įor Kale Futterman, writing is a basic element of life, much like oxygen. ![]() It is precisely the kind of activity that “happens naturally in a writers room,” she said. So we are both sharing ideas about writing and teaching.” And this is kind of like a writers room, except we are a group of adults and then a group of teenagers who are living through a traumatic experience that they’ll never forget in their lives. “I’m not allowed to be in a writers room. “My other creative muscle is working with other writers,” she said. Another performance is being planned for August, and a collection of the plays is scheduled to be published as well.ĭuring the strike, the New York-based Reingold, who has worked on the Paramount+ series “The Good Fight” and the NBC series “Smash,” began writing a play of her own, but she said she has found a wellspring of inspiration and dedication in the young Ukrainians. In July 2022, the works were performed over Zoom by professional actors and subsequently produced at the Orion Theater in Stockholm. ![]() The program was created by playwright and screenwriter Laura Cahill. Under WGA strike rules, union members are prohibited from providing writing services for any and all companies that are part of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers and a host of related ancillary activities. ![]() Thurber had demanded of her husband - forced them to stop writing. The writers’ strike, now in its third month, has done for the thousands of members of the Writers Guild of America what Mrs. ![]() Writing is not some industrialized, mechanized process there is no time card. Thurber, whose prolific career included “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” and “The Battle of the Sexes” (both adapted into films), captured the occupational hazards inherent in the writer’s mind. Sometimes my wife comes up to me at a party and says, ‘Dammit, Thurber, stop writing.’ She usually catches me in the middle of a paragraph.” “I never quite know when I’m not writing. In 1955, James Thurber, whose peerless wit made him one of the most important American writers of the 20th century, recounted the following exchange: ![]()
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