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About 98 percent of the time, I wouldn’t have gotten a big laugh from seeing this Facebook ad for screenwriting advice. But with 12,000 writers on strike, it instantly becomes comic gold. Hey, maybe it’s a great time to be a screenwriter. The 98 percent of us who haven’t sold a script could blitz our way through that la-tee-da 2 percent of picketing professionals. We’re storming the gates, and we’re bringing our clichéd metaphors with us! Hacks of the world, unite!

—Posted by David Griner

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