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		<title>A Voting Guide for the WGA Board Elections</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Did I say &#8220;early August?&#8221; Yikes. Sorry. It&#8217;s been a little nuts. But I&#8217;m back, and I&#8217;m going to start blogging regularly again. I&#8217;ll kick things off with this short but sweet post. If you&#8217;re a member in good standing of the WGAw, you have received your ballot for the upcoming Board election. Here are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://artfulwriter.com/?p=1089</link>
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		<title>Still here&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bear with me. I&#8217;m busy, which is good (especially in light of the recent LA Times article about how sucky it is out there for screenwriters). When I&#8217;m back (soon, probably early August), I plan to write about the following: What&#8217;s next for credits and the WGA My preview of the upcoming negotiation season The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://artfulwriter.com/?p=1086</link>
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		<title>Warner Brothers GETS IT</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this Mike Fleming piece over at DHD. As a writer, I have absolutely zero issue with a studio enforcing a deadline. Why shouldn&#8217;t they? They&#8217;re negotiated as part of the contract, and part of being professional is fulfilling your contractual obligations. But I hate one-step deals, and I&#8217;ve maintained that the proliferation of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://artfulwriter.com/?p=1083</link>
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		<title>Credits Referendum PASSES!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just got word&#8230;our credits proposal passed in a landslide! Approval percentages were in the 90&#8242;s in the East and the 80&#8242;s in the West. This is so gratifying to me for two reasons: It&#8217;s the single most significant change to our credits guidelines since they were first devised, and It passed without rancor. The second [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://artfulwriter.com/?p=1080</link>
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		<title>Please vote YES</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are a current member in good standing of the WGAw or WGAE, then you should have received your credits referendum ballot by now. Please vote YES on all three proposals. It&#8217;s quick and easy&#8230;just punch three chads, and the postage is prepaid. The arguments in favor of the proposals are in the booklet. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://artfulwriter.com/?p=1073</link>
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		<title>The Professor is Wrong</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I received an interesting question via email today. Apparently, a screenwriting professor at a major university is teaching his students that scene headers should be formatted like this: INT     LIBRARY     DAY That is to say, no period for the abbreviation of interior, no dashes, and exactly five spaces between the words. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://artfulwriter.com/?p=1070</link>
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		<title>Different Craig Mazin&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Someone sent me this Ask Men article about the top ten screenwriters, written by Craig Mazin. It&#8217;s a different Craig Mazin (yeah, there are something like three or four of us in the world). I don&#8217;t write for Ask Men. I also don&#8217;t write lists of stuff. And this list doesn&#8217;t include Larry Kasdan, so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://artfulwriter.com/?p=1067</link>
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		<title>Great essay by Mark Cuban&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;of all people. http://blogmaverick.com/2010/04/06/why-you-should-never-listen-to-your-customers/ Very relevant for our business, which has always struggled balancing chasing with leading. Thanks to Phil Hay for sending it along.]]></description>
		<link>http://artfulwriter.com/?p=1065</link>
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		<title>I Am Wasting Your Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m talking to you, the aspiring screenwriter. You haven&#8217;t sold anything, or maybe one thing a few years ago. Been a while since you cashed a real check for writing; maybe you never have. But you know what you do have? A community. You have the scribosphere. It&#8217;s a rich, vibrant support group, where you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://artfulwriter.com/?p=1062</link>
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		<title>The Health Care Bill&#8230;what it means for us&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This thing is fresh from its vote, and I&#8217;m presuming that it will be signed into law, although there might be some additional drama in the Senate. What does it mean for us? Well, for those of us already covered under the WGA-Industry Health Plan, there seem to be three specific areas to note. First, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://artfulwriter.com/?p=1058</link>
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