🎧 A Heartwarming Tax ID Number
Rob Long on how TV writers find companionship in money
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Writing is a tough, lonely profession. One of its worse qualities: the payment structure, broken up into a zillion little pieces, withheld in full until the bitter end and altogether utterly unpredictable. The whole charade can make someone like Rob Long, understandably, crazy. That’s why, when a production company asks for a tax ID number, or a residual check comes in at $12, not $11, it’s hard not to get a little emotional.
Transcript here.
Rob:
Big fan here. I once got a royalty cheque for 10 cents. The stamp on the envelope cost 30. It was good and absurd at the same time.
Onward,
David
David Versus Goliath Productions
Canada.