Lateef Belle: Screenwriter in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Thx for the add

For those who did earn something (anything!) by screenwriting, what did you do with your first earnings? Most of mine went into the bank but I did treat myself to a MacBook and a Dyson vacuum I'd had my eye on! Oh and my husband wasn't sure what to think of my relatively new chosen career (I only started in 2009 and got paid early 2012) until he was looking at the paper and saw his fave team, the Mets were playing up in Toronto. "What a shame we can't go..." I reminded him of the check we just put in the bank... So after the family trip overnight in in Canada he was a little more into my work, haha. If you have not earned yet, what would you like to treat yourself to?

thanks, I hope to connect with you soon.

So I'm working on my protag for my feature, and I want him to be an oddball that does whatever he has to do to reach his goal. But I don't want to go overboard because he still has to be likeable. But two protags come to mind where I can't find any redeeming qualities in them. Jake Gyllenhaal in NightCrawler, and Christian Bale in American Psycho. Why do we like these guys so much? Why do we want them to succeed? Usually there's a "save the cat" moment in despicable protagonists, but I can't think of them in these movies. What am I looking over? Now I'm going to have to read the spec for Nightcrawler.

Just looking for people's personal opinions and experiences. Whether it's free or paid for - tell me about it!

Thanks for the add!!

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