The members-only meeting at the guild's West Hollywood offices focused on the two-month strike of "America's Next Top Model" writers.

The campaign has cost the guild several hundred thousand dollars, but also gotten more than 1,100 reality writers interested in joining the organization, Daily Variety reported.

The guild wants the writers to be paid more because reality shows are very profitable. Writers Guild President Patric Verrone and interim executive director David Young said enlisting reality writers would also improve the guild's bargaining position with the networks, Variety said.

But board member Craig Mazin said the guild's strategy is naive. The reality show writers' protests and "street" theater were counterproductive and would end up marginalizing the Writers Guild, he said.

"I believe we should tone down our rhetoric and act maturely," writer William Schmidt said.