Hi from Austin, Texas! I'm confused. The WGA video says don't do beat sheets, outlines, notes, nothing in writing, and keep conversation verbal with producers as it flies in the face of what's fair to the writer and what's right for the WGA.

However, your entire web page is about writing a treatment. I get that this is a tool mostly for the writer to organize his/her thoughts so as to not wander through a potential screenplay ad infinitum with a small nod to giving the executive a sneak peek in to your idea and to see it blossom along the way.

My treatment is "1900: The Year of Revelations". The story has lots of chops with a major epic disaster looming at the end. I was gong the historic fiction novel route via an initial short story which smells like a film treatment. Thinking of morphing from novel to film which is the story best and highest use. Also, I think in cinematic terms while I am a damn good prose writer. I also have decades in the entertainment industry so I know the vibe of it all and have a very strong sense of great stories and what makes an audience sit up and bark!

Any additional thoughts would be greatly appreciated to clarify all this.

I also don't understand this sentence, below:

"There are also plenty of places that will compensate you fairly for that work."

Where are those places. I'm not a WGA member - yet

Thanks for your time and for this fine resource. John Bernardoni