What’s the toughest thing you learned as a screenwriter?
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Honesty.
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Not to answer questions about what the toughest thing I learned as a writer.
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That it takes a lot of waiting. Waiting to hear back about a script, waiting to get notes back from a producer, etc. But as you wait, you can write new scripts.
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Writing for income
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I second Maurice‘s comment on waiting. If you‘re an impatient person, you quickly learn to become very patient…
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“Roughly 50,000 screenplays are registered with the Writer's Guild of America each year. Hollywood studios release about 150 movies per year.”
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Getting to “fade out” on a draft before rewriting. I always find myself rewriting the first 30 pages but I know that finishing a draft is the key to actual progression and smart rewriting.
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Some days you feel great and it's easy, other days it's tough. Regardless, you just need to put in the time every day.
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No tough things. Just no short cuts. And sellers of shortcuts are well intentioned and lack knowledge or have knowledge but lack good intentions.
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Getting your work read by decision makers.
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I agree with you all
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Learning not to listen to internet BS peddlers who lack real knowledge yet sell themselves as experts and whose agendas are anything but altruistic.