Tom Wolfe nodded. The handyman walked away scratching his head. Blind as a bat. One thousand dollars. This story proves that putting words on paper is only a side-step in the creative process we're hired to do as professionals.
Content marks the important difference.
Writers are employed for their organizational skills, their ability to provide structure, to link narrative along through the actions of believable characters and dialogue. All of which leads in a roundabout way to a new medium for professional screenwriters, and a new set of allies for our Guild. I'm talking about software designers. There are no standard job descriptions, either. That's going to change, and the WGA faces a golden opportunity to represent software designers before another guild or union snatches them up.