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Quick bio; I’m a screenwriter based in an old rural market town in the UK who’s recently gotten back from LA where I got to see a feature film I’d written go through principle photography. After nearly seven years of screenwriting, I’ve had my first feature script option and feature script assignment happen within the last twelve months.
And now everybody’s asking me how to break in.
I can’t really answer that question for everybody but I can say this; I was discovered due to a combination of blogging and having my scripts uploaded to a free script hosting website. In many ways, it was as simple as that. An Emmy award winning producer with a ton of credits and a box office number one under his belt was tipped off about my blogs by another industry member, ended up reading one of my scripts, and loved it. The rest is is history. I’m now living my dream as a working screenwriter.
But I can’t help but feel it’s nowhere near as simple as that when I consider every step that got me here. Steps that felt right to me when I was taking them even though so many told me they were wrong.
You see, what I’ve come to notice over the past few years is a distinct difference in attitude between those who eventually break in and those who never seem to make it. I feel like I can easily place amateur…
