A Screenwriter Describes His First 2 Years in the Business
If you've never heard of Jake Thornton, that's okay. He's new.
He's never had his name on a feature film playing at your theater, but he's sold scripts, he's been a jobbing screenwriter for two years, and he's hopeful for a bright future of working his ass off.
To celebrate the anniversary of his big regulation size break, Thornton went on an epic Twitter rant (with a lot of rave in it) to make sense of his experience with agents, producers, spec scripts and side jobs teaching old ladies how to use Apple computers. It's both a personal inventory of failures and wound-salving successes, as well as an act of laying bread crumbs on an invisible path for those aspiring to be where he's at.
If you've never heard of Jake Thornton, that's okay. He's new.
He's never had his name on a feature film playing at your theater, but he's sold scripts, he's been a jobbing screenwriter for two years, and he's hopeful for a bright future of working his ass off.
To celebrate the anniversary of his big regulation size break, Thornton went on an epic Twitter rant (with a lot of rave in it) to make sense of his experience with agents, producers, spec scripts and side jobs teaching old ladies how to use Apple computers. It's both a personal inventory of failures and wound-salving successes, as well as an act of laying bread crumbs on an invisible path for those aspiring to be where he's at.
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