[labster]

Hollywood writers are glamorous? Hilarious. I've lived most of my life in SoCal and that's not really the general perception. Even movies about writers like Saving Mr. Banks don't depict it as a glamorous life, though Their Finest does a little bit.

Ultimately what drives screenwriters is their need to create. For those of us who do creative writing, be it for screen, dead tree, or compiler, there's this internal need for the work to make itself manifest. We're just the conduit for the story. That's why people put up with the conditions in the writers room, it's all for the story.