Brief thought on the WGA strike and NaNoisms!

Okay, so it once again being NaNoWriMo, I have a suitable excuse for not posting. Not that I did during the past couple of months, but oh well. *cough*

Anyway, purporting myself to be a writer, I figured it might behoove me to comment, albeit briefly (due to NaNoWriMo! Trust me, I'm going to milk this excuse for all I can) on the Writers Guild of America strike. Having occasionally considered taking a stab at a screenplay, in addition to the whole "I write books!"* thing, I definitely feel for the writers. Given that movies and TV shows just don't exist, period, until someone writes them, it does seem rather unfair that producers and directors and actors tend to get the majority of the moola.

Tangent: I do wonder what effect a Best Boy Grip strike would have on Hollywood. Guess they'd need a union first for it to do any good. Though there may be such a thing.

Anyway redux, I'm definitely pro-writers. But as a movie fanatic** and watcher-of-non-reality-TV-shows, I'm going to be pretty sad if we make it to January and there aren't any new episodes of Heroes. So let's just hope the strike is over quickly, and the writers get what they want.

And now, NaNoisms! Yes, those snippets of hilarity that always ensue when one is attempting to write 50k in the course of a month, or, in my case, 60k! Here are the gems I've come across so far, complete with the comments I posted to the NaNoisms thread:

"Crap and double-croup"
Childhood illnesses as mild swear words! I like it.

"Isaiah's voice had a nasty look on it."
I hate it when voices have those nasty looks. Though they are better than voices having nasty smells.

And this last one isn't quite a proper NaNoism, but nonetheless:

There's a very good reason why I don't listen to the things my brain tells me while I'm lying in bed still half-asleep. Case in point:

[My MC's boss walks into the office my MC shares with her detestable coworker.]

"Hey, super twins! We can't get married with the windows so close together!"

"Super twins" is so bizarre I can't comment on it, but the "we" somehow actually referred to my MC and the detestable coworker. And I actually had a vision of the windows spreading out to a distance that would somehow make the marriage a go.

I'm as dumbfounded as the rest of you.

*On occasion, though I'm hoping NaNo will help me get back in the habit

**Though I think I deserve props for finally canceling my Netflix subscription, even though I did it primarily because I finally got satellite