March 17, 2008
Novelists Strike: time to support our people…
Posted by andreadupree under The Scoop, The Write IdeaFor my part, I’m going to “set aside” writing the novel I quit three years ago.
From The Onion:
Novelists Strike Fails To Affect Nation Whatsoever
LOS ANGELES—The Novelists Guild of America strike, now entering its fourth month, has had no impact on the nation at all, sources reported Tuesday.
The strike, which scholars say could be the longest since 1951, when American novelists may or may not have voluntarily committed to a six-month work stoppage, has brought an immediate halt to all new novels, novellas, and novelettes from coast to coast, affecting no one.
Nor has America’s economy seen any adverse effects whatsoever, as consumers easily adjust to the sudden cessation of any bold new sprawling works of fiction or taut psychological character studies.
“There’s a novelists strike?” Ames, IA consumer Carl Hailes said. “That’s terrible. When is it scheduled to begin?”
The strike kicked off last fall when the NGA announced it had hit a roadblock in negotiations with the Alliance of Printed Fiction and Literature Producers, failing to resolve certain key issues concerning online distribution, digital media rights, and readers just not getting what writers were trying to do with a number of important allegorical devices. Read article here.
March 17, 2008 at
I dare anyone to cross my home office picket line! I’m in — I’ll guarantee you nobody is going to see my novel as long as this strike goes on. Semper fi!
March 17, 2008 at
I have been honoring that strike without even being aware of it. Like sympathy pains from an amputated limb, I must have subconsciously experienced the absence of creative currents flowing through the universe (and my writing studio). Does the estimable Onion have any idea how much longer the work stoppage might linger??????
March 17, 2008 at
Sooner or later the world will start feeling the pinch. Once they finish all the classics, and all of the good novels written in the last fifty years, they’ll come crawling, just you watch.
March 17, 2008 at
You know, I sent a note to my editor and let her know I’d be participating in the strike. She said that was fine. And that she wasn’t going to send me any more money.
*Grumbles*
DAMN it. Why does the right choice always have to be the hard choice?