Variety, reporting at 5:11 p.m. on today’s negotiations between WGA and AMPTP:

With a strike potentially causing a major disruption to daily business, key players on both sides were seeking not to craft an entire deal but to simply delay the strike for a few days in order to give negotiations another chance. And the major focus appeared to be to get talks moving without the relentless saber-rattling that’s dominated for the past year.

In this article, Dave McNarry calls the possibility for a positive outcome from today’s talks “mixed at best,” and notes that the strike, if it occurs, will likely be a lengthy one. WGA members will be required to picket for 20 hours per week.