As far as I know, there isn't any. A number of 'net sources are reporting rumors this morning…or maybe they'd more accurately be called rumors of rumors. The "buzz" is that something's happening that will avert the WGA Strike, which at this moment is still on for one minute after Midnight tonight. It would be nice to think that's possible but right now, better to take one of those "I'll believe it when I see it" attitudes. One way in which a strike wears on you is through the constant lifting and dropping of your hopes as rumor after rumor jerks them about. If you disbelieve everything that comes without a solid source affixed, you'll be right at least 95% of the time, which ain't a bad average.
A couple of aspiring screenwriters seem to be using the Internet to advertise that they're available for scabbing. I say "seem" because a few that I've seen are so over-the-top pathetic that you wonder if they aren't clumsy satires. Or maybe they're clumsy satires but the folks doing them are holding out the hopes that they'll lead to some sort of offer to write clumsy satires. I'd hate to think they're legit because, well, I don't like the idea of anyone trying to undermine any strike (especially mine) and I also feel sorry for the wanna-be scabs. I suppose there are exceptions but if your career is predicated on that kind of "break," it usually doesn't turn out well. Even those who might be desperate enough to hire you don't have a lot of respect for you, your work or — especially — your personal integrity. Offering to scab is like admitting you're second-rate and you know you can't compete when the first-string people are available. Once the strike is over, those who do the hiring not only won't want to use you, most of them won't want to admit they ever knew you. And of course, once the strike is over, a lot of the hiring will be done by those who were out, those whose strike you sought to sabotage. All in all, it's a great way to make nobody like you.
My e-mailbox this morning actually has more messages about the strike than it does offers for penis enlargement. Not that those two subjects are always unrelated. It's important, methinks, to keep the following in mind: All the negotiating, picketing, striking, public statements, etc., all have but one valid purpose…to make a deal and get everyone back to work. Writers and those in Management frequently have issues of respect, power, ego and other personal flashpoints which underscore all interactions and bubble to the surface in time of war. Understood. But the point of it all is still to make a deal. And the more we can leave the emotional baggage out in the hallway, the faster we can get to that deal.
When I get a moment, I'll write something here about how I think the key to that may be trying to unwrap our brains from the concept of Winning and Losing. Rarely does either side "win" a strike in the sense of getting everything they want in the way they want; not without paying a terrible price for it. Most strikes are not wars where one side crushes the other. They're drastic ways of arriving at an agreement to work together in the future. If we don't arrive at that, nobody wins.