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The Life of a Writers' Assistant
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Written by Ariel   

I know I have been MIA once again. So much has happened – finished my pilot, got notes from people, reoutlined it, now rewriting it… But you want to hear about writers’ assistant life, right? So here goes…

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Hi, readers. Sorry I went on a bit of a hiatus there, but between working 70-80 hours a week at my writers’ assistant job by day (and a lot of night), trying to finish my latest spec during free moments in-between, and apartment-hunting in the very few spare seconds remaining, I have been more than a little crunched for time.

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“‘Hey, Batta Batta’ – Ins (and ‘Outs’) of Pitching” PDF Print E-mail
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By now, by reading this blog regularly (you’d better be, anyway), you know that every TV show is different -- some recognize writers’ assistants as the hardworking glorified typists we are… others barely acknowledge that we’re in the room and gasp if we so much as sneeze. So when it comes to pitching in a field full of pros, what’s a wannabe player to do? It is baseball season, after all, and we don’t want to stay in the dugout forever.
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About Ariel

Ariel is an aspiring (paid) writer. While not typing her own scripts, she types those of writers in L.A. while working as a writers’ assistant. She has corrected commas and placed periods on everything from dramas to comedies. She received an MA in Writers’ Assisting and a BA in Thick Skin from the Hollywood School of Hard Knocks (which she accumulated while working as a WA on six TV shows and two films).

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