In 2010 when I moved it to the Guardian to help launch the Science blog network, writers like Ben Goldacre were still an anomaly.
To create the show, he assembled a team of black men (and one black woman), including his brother, Stephen, the majority of whom have never worked in a network writers' room.
One notion that network writers might have to give up is closure.
For years, Postdoc Network writers have documented their lousy pay, inadequate benefits, long, inflexible hours, inadequate vacations, dearth of good long-term job opportunities, and so on.
UGO Networks writer Alex Zalben compared "What Lies Below" to the similarly-plotted The X-Files episode "Ice".
But when pitching to the broadcast networks, writers are encouraged to start out with, as he puts it, "a hooky premise". .
In 2009, when Twitter first burst on to the social network scene, writer Benji Lanyado put his travels entirely in the hands of live tips from the Twittersphere, visiting Paris and following hundreds of tips from locals and enthusiasts, in real time.
"Advertisers have said they want YouTube to resemble a TV network," one writer pointed out.
By participating in these groups and reviewing others' posts, you can network for writers and evaluate the writing skills of writers who post to those groups.
