{"id":297,"date":"2013-10-27T21:22:09","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T04:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sarahbullion.com\/site\/?p=297"},"modified":"2014-07-11T00:02:30","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T07:02:30","slug":"everyones-a-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahbullion.com\/site\/everyones-a-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyone&#8217;s A Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;\">Recently, while I was working very hard in a brand new position, for half the rate, I walked into the studio where The Talent was giving an interview. The Talent, sitting in front of a camera says to me: &#8220;Sarah. You know I love you, right?&#8221;<\/span><\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;\"><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">\u00a0I looked at the camera. Still recording. I said, &#8220;I sense a caveat.&#8221; &#8220;No,&#8221; he says, &#8220;You know I love you, right?&#8221; I just looked at him. I thought: &#8220;Do I?&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;\"><span class=\"text_exposed_show\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sarahbullion.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/CUKeyboard.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"CUKeyboard\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sarahbullion.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/CUKeyboard.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sarahbullion.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/CUKeyboard.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These questions you wrote are (he smiles cruelly) not good.&#8221; &#8220;Well,&#8221; I said, &#8220;I&#8217;ve never written them before and I have gotten no notes.&#8221; &#8220;They&#8217;re not good,&#8221; he continued, &#8220;And I said it to you (points at the camera) on camera. So, you&#8217;ll see it in post.&#8221; Me and many other people. He nodded, pleased with himself.<\/p>\n<p>I had been mulling staying another week because, after weeks of tears and misery, at noon of my last day, they had finally asked me to. I decided: &#8220;Well *I* won&#8217;t.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the day they decided another piece of my writing was also &#8220;not good.&#8221; &#8220;Ok, how would you like me to change it?&#8221; &#8220;I don&#8217;t know. Just fix it.&#8221; So, I had The Talent rewrite it. It was fucking awful but I handed it to the EP and hooked my thumb at The Talent, &#8220;He ok&#8217;d it. He approved it.&#8221; She pressed her lips together and nodded. I walked out.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone&#8217;s a writer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of the day they decided another piece of my writing was also &#8220;not good.&#8221; &#8220;Ok, how would you like me to change it?&#8221; &#8220;I don&#8217;t know. 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