Re: At some point you have to give up
Time to weigh in - wrote my first script at 24... I'm 47.
I moved to LA right after college, wrote three scripts that sucked and then GAVE UP!
For next 20 years I dreamed of writing... spent countless nights awake in bed outlining in my mind... drank too much - lost a few wives... had a few kids - even made tons of money in corporate America, but I always had a couple scripts I dreamed of writing.
Three years ago I lost everything... wife, kids, house, business...
So I put an ad on Craigslist - netted a work for hire within 3 weeks... 18K to WRITE A SCRIPT!!
Spent the next few months on the set of features, TV shows and commercials... read every script I could find and started querying the bigs - agents, managers and prodcos. Finally got a script request for one of those scripts that had kept me up for years, and I had not written a word of it.
Nine days later it was ready (now 12 drafts later), so I sent it in and it made it all the way to an A-List talent.
For the past two years I have written, adapted, co-written and studied the craft - exactly what I should have done 20 years ago!
After all this time, regardless of where I have been or what I have done in life, I am still a screenwriter... just got a script request from a very respectable agent last week, and its POSSIBLE that may last spec will soon go wide.
Best,
Markerstone
Time to weigh in - wrote my first script at 24... I'm 47.
I moved to LA right after college, wrote three scripts that sucked and then GAVE UP!
For next 20 years I dreamed of writing... spent countless nights awake in bed outlining in my mind... drank too much - lost a few wives... had a few kids - even made tons of money in corporate America, but I always had a couple scripts I dreamed of writing.
Three years ago I lost everything... wife, kids, house, business...
So I put an ad on Craigslist - netted a work for hire within 3 weeks... 18K to WRITE A SCRIPT!!
Spent the next few months on the set of features, TV shows and commercials... read every script I could find and started querying the bigs - agents, managers and prodcos. Finally got a script request for one of those scripts that had kept me up for years, and I had not written a word of it.
Nine days later it was ready (now 12 drafts later), so I sent it in and it made it all the way to an A-List talent.
For the past two years I have written, adapted, co-written and studied the craft - exactly what I should have done 20 years ago!
After all this time, regardless of where I have been or what I have done in life, I am still a screenwriter... just got a script request from a very respectable agent last week, and its POSSIBLE that may last spec will soon go wide.
Best,
Markerstone
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