Craig Mazin's site The Artful Writer is back up after a hiatus with a snazzy new design. Craig, a writer/director/producer, offers useful and entertaining thoughts on the art of screenwriting (much of which is applicable elsewhere) and lots of inside-baseball stuff on the business of being a Hollywood writer. Plus, he's promised to offer an after-action-report on the writer's strike. Check it out.

Craig's also funny in person, and good to have around if you want someone who will throw down in an argument no matter how hideously inappropriate that would seem in light of the social setting. I've enjoyed the benefit of that tendency at one toddler-infested holiday brunch and am scheming to see if I can arrange it at a baptism or wake or something.

Edit: Part One of his discussion of the strike is now up.

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