Negotiators for the Writers Guild of America, which represents 11,000 movie and television writers, have been seeking increases in several types of residuals, the fees paid for subsequent use of a writer's work after its initial broadcast or theatrical run, as well as concessions aimed at improving the status and power of film writers.
This use of a writer and his local connections forms part of the more general process of making a cultural policy for the city.
Zoella now has 8 million subscribers, a product line, a book deal, and as of the past few weeks – after publishing her novel Girl Online, achieving record-breaking sales, then being criticised for her use of a ghost writer – a torrent of attention from the non-YouTuber watching public.
In "Love Streams," from 1984, his final film as writer and director, Cassavetes plays the lead role of a writer who uses women for "research" as he lurches, tuxedo-clad and alcohol-fogged, through night clubs and casinos.
Perhaps there was something in the literary air or water in 1966 but it is a curious fact that two of the landmark examples of the re-use of a previous writer's characters reached the public within two months of that year.
Had he been asked to choose his own epitaph, I believe that he would have used the words of a writer he revered, Arnold Bennett.
In my first writing workshop, we discussed "eye dialect," a phrase used to describe a writer's use of nonstandard spelling to establish that a character spoke in a particular way.
It has become impossible for ordinary scholars to keep abreast of what's available in this age of electronic abundance — though D-Lib Magazine, an online publication, helps by highlighting new digital sources and collections, rather as material libraries used to advertise their acquisition of a writer's papers or a collection of books with fine bindings.
Shields's last book was a critical appreciation of Jane Austen, and by using the interior life here of a writer writing about a writer, she develops, similarly, a prescriptive tone at times, inquiring into the nature of her own art: 'This matters,' Reta has to tell herself, and her creator, 'the making of untenable worlds through the nib of a pen; it matters so much I can't stop doing it'.
The casual use of a degrading stereotype by your writer not only infuriates but also perpetuates a problem.
Despite insisting on importing her American experience of using a writers' room and "cherrypicking the best", Allen says Ullman has worked hard in her 30 years in California to keep her cultural connection with Britain.
