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The Writers' Assistant Life: The Lactating Writer |
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Written by Ariel
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In a writers’ room, minding your “Ps” and “Qs” often means something other than the “pleases” and “thank yous” or “mind your manners” definitions we were raised on. For writers’ assistants, it literally means minding the “P”s and “Q”s and the other 24 letters of the alphabet we type 100 mph. And while we type, anticipating the carpal tunnel we will inevitably get, the writers write. However, I know that writers often do other things in writers’ rooms while writing (or not writing, as the case may be): play ping pong, scrabble, whiffle ball, and Wii, show pictures from their iPhones to each other, take pictures of each other, text, e-mail, knit, crochet… I even heard of one writer who used to iron her fellow staffers’ clothes. But lactating? This was a new one to me: The Lactating Writer.
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The Writers' Assistant Life: Misplaced Periods |
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Written by Ariel
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Hi, readers. From now on, I am going to recap my week (or an event from my week) from inside the writers’ room, as well as a parallel one from outside of the room. Here we go… In the room… In “my” writers’ room, the writers see every word I type on two different television monitors that are hooked up to my computer… which is both good and bad.
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The Writers’ Assistant Life: How to Get In |
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Written by Ariel
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“How to Find the Job” Hi, again. You may be wondering how you, too, can get into the WA seat on a show near you. Of course, without previous WA experience, it’s hard to get a WA job; next to impossible, actually. So the key is to get as close as possible to the WA position – and I mean literally, not just figuratively.
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