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It’s twenty-twenty and time for some tough-talk. You know I’m slowly building a screenwriting career and I want to send the elevator back down as much as I can. There’s a LOT of misinformation out there, more than ever right now, and I feel the need to lay down ten truths every screenwriter trying to break in needs to know before they make bad decisions, go in circles, or even worse, give up on their dreams far too early.
The Journey is Long — Much, Much Longer Than You Think.
Wow! Much insight! Many truths! Thanks for that bombshell, CJ! Seriously though, a realistic strategy to try and break into screenwriting should factor in AT LEAST TEN YEARS of sustained effort — yes, a decade, a freaking decade. If that terrifies you then it should. While you will most certainly see at least some progress in that time, such as getting reads, having short scripts produced, and building your network, you should not be giving up and writing your potential career off just because it’s been three or five years already and you’ve not sold a script and made a feature film.
