There is a great rant by Harlan Ellison going around on video (for all of you who have emailed me about it, yes, I know about it already).
I don’t like to link to it because I don’t know if the people who posted it on YouTube had the rights to do so and don’t want to encourage IP infringement. The gist is that writers should be paid and he says, less politely, that he never does anything without getting paid.
Good advice for all creatives.
Btw, NPR yesterday was discussing the WGA strike and said that in polling across the US the general public is overwhelmingly on the side of the writers. Yipee! This is great news for all creatives.
Feel free to check it out on my blog 🙂
I watched it. Great rant.
I’d suggest watching it, and jotting down some of his talking, er, ranting points so that you can have them handy the next time someone asks you to work for exposure or some other form of nothing.
Classic! Great advice.