First of all, I want to make it perfectly clear that I greatly respect GOOD game writing and have no problem with your chosen profession; however, I find that most game writing appears to be purely an exercise in completing a fill-in-the-blank cliche template. Now, I'm not completely unaware of the difference between writing and world creation, for lack of a better term, but they're not mutually exclusive either. I'm defintely a cynic at heart, and I have grow very tired of the lone hero who single-handedly saves the world stories. I much prefer the stuff that Ron, Tim Schafer and Dave Grossman are known for. Stuff that shows a great deal of imagination, interesting characterization, and so on and so forth. This was principally the context for the "games have writing?" comment.

The other thing that caught my attention was the writer's guild membership requirement. Why does this strike me as more of a marketing ploy than a true celebration of good game writing?

P.S. I'm not a writer of any sort, nor do I claim to be. Hell, I'm not even an english major.