I’ve been looking at you for ten minutes, easily ten, with my head going in two directions. Part of me wants to enthuse at you about a table reading I attended over Zoom last night, but I’m not sure I can. I can definitely tell you that scripts I’d read and very much enjoyed seemed even better performed by however many people in Celebrity Squares-style video boxes.<\/p>\n
But I think what I really want is to talk about the Writers’ Guild. This week I was re-elected as co-Deputy Chair of the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain and I may never get used to that. Except this is my last year \u2013 the Guild is a trade union and it of course has rules, which of course include term limits.<\/p>\n
I promise to hand over power peacefully.<\/p>\n
It’ll be reluctantly, but it will be peaceable. And that’s not for a year yet, so in the meantime I plan to be as bleedin’ useful as I can. The Writers’ Guild raises the tide for all writers, which I think is amazing, and actually it does so whether you’re in the Guild or not, which I think is astounding. Pay rates, conditions, the Guild is constantly \u2013\u2013\u00a0and I really mean constantly \u2013\u2013 negotiating, pressing, arranging every possible aspect of professional writing life and doing so in our favour.<\/p>\n
Writing is an isolating kind of job which might suit you and it might not, but it makes us vulnerable. I think it’s telling that during this hard time, Guild membership is going up. The more of us there are, the stronger the Writers’ Guild is, the better we all fare.<\/p>\n
Take a look at joining<\/a> and what membership brings you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve been looking at you for ten minutes, easily ten, with my head going in two directions. Part of me … Continue reading