Write Rewards

Whispers of my dreams is the ink that I write with. Its words tell of the visions that I carry. Its memory is kept within the pages of my story. Its moment is when you see it on the silver screen, but the screen has faded to black.

As a writer, there is no true happiness for me but when I write. Closing the door on the world, keeping its cold touch outside the confines of my room, I am swallowed by vision. My fingers reach into the warm rivers of imagination, pulling out ideas that fill the pages of my book, the pages within the computer screen. I am lost within a dream, riding the waves of anticipation and the hopes for glory to deliver what I keep inside to you.

There is no greater glory than to see the world change right before your eyes and know that you played a part in changing it. There is no greater glow than from those amazed at the visions that you bring them from book to screen. There is no better taste of satisfaction when the future dreamers come to you to show you their own inspiration and how they intend to change the world with their own visions. This is when you know you have reached where you want to be, but the road that we writers must take is a broken, long, sometimes abandoned road. And for us to keep pushing on ahead, we need the essential element of life these days, which is called money.

The Writer's Guild of America (WGA) has gone on strike. Its members declare respect for the great achievements brought to Hollywood and brought to us viewers, but they know that respect is not given but earned. They want to be recognized for what they dream, what they create, but they need the money to survive, to keep going. They need to be seen and understood by the studio heads as an essential role to the stories on television and in the movies, and they deserve a fair share of the profits earned.

In the technological world today, writers have found a new vocal point to write and tell their stories. Websites hungry for emerging and established writers welcome them into their cyberspace, and the readers flock to digest the latest creations posted on the site. It is a great leap for most writers. However, this new technological age is also a pothole for the WGA.