I struggle with allowing myself to believe that a piece that I've written is ready to be shopped around to producers, agents, and managers. I had a couple of big meetings early in my career and while they were positive, for the most part, I left those opportunities feeling under-prepared. I felt like I had used up a chance before I had work that I deemed worthy of the meeting. Since then, I find that I walk a very fine line between a piece being good enough to take meetings or needing further development. I think sometimes that holds me back from being proactive in my search for interested parties, representation and otherwise. I rarely reach a point, with any of my writing or film-making endeavors, where I am satisfied fully. I always find some sort of flaw that needs addressing. I don't want these tendencies to cause me to over-think my work or prevent me from moving forward. My question is this: How can I maintain my standards of quality without getting in my own way? Thank you, Rex, for sharing with us. Paul D. Hart
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I'm not being facetious when I say that you really have to adopt an attitude of "fuck all, fuck everyone" when you're writing b/c otherwise you are going to get in your way by letting them get in your way. You will go mad thinking, and trying to produce, what they want. You will also fail if you approach your writing this way. Remember, agents and producers and their ilk are nothing without good writing. Nothing. And they know that. I know it sounds almost paradoxical to say this, but: you're in control, dude. You can write; they can't. Oh, sure, they're often nasty, and they turn people down for representation and they don't return calls and all the rest, but they're nothing without your writing. And one day, after years of struggle and suffering -- like I endured -- you'll see them at Barney's helping you try on a pair of new Italian loafers or opening the door to your new 2-door sporty export and asking you if you'd like the Corinthian leather or not.
I never start out to write for them, but I'm not stupid enough to believe that a certain kind of story that has zero commercial appeal is worth beating my head against the with. If that makes any sense.
Ditto