WGA Strike: The writers "speak"

There's hope after all for an American television landscape with more than reruns and reality shows in 2008. As reported here on TV Squad earlier, while the strike continues, the Writer's Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers have agreed to return to the negotiating table come November 26, after the Thanksgiving holiday. We at TV Squad, who let's face it make our livings off the written word, decided that the main focus of this whole strike has been lost in all the hype over picketing celebrities, reruns and layoffs. So we gathered half a dozen of the top television writers and offered them the chance to speak anonymously, openly and honestly about how this experience has impacted them and their families.

And since this is a blog, it made sense to have them write in their own words their thoughts and feelings about this whole experience and hopes for the future.

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Writer 6:

They wh-? ... Well, why n-? ... Oh, because of the str- ... Wow, was this an incredibly ill-conceived idea.