So Basic A Premise… In the comments on last night’s post, the rant that Harlan did about paying the writers was posted. I guess it is on YouTube and is part of the movie about him. What that Hollywood agent wanted me to do was work for free, and I basically said, “Hell no!!” But I got a number of letters and a comment about how that agent might have caught other writers. So how do you not get caught? Simple… You draw the line and never work for free. Period. Back in the 1990s, when traditional publishers started cutting sale forces and wanted the writers to promote instead, I…