Is Longer Better?

When is comes to screenwriting… longer isn't always better.  The business part of entertainment can be challenging.  If you are an established writer, producers and studios are more willing to take risks based on your track record.  New screenwriters have many challenges when breaking into the business.  It is often better to write a shorter feature script.  The business folks look at each page as a problem in one form or another and so… Do you want to risk 120 pages of problems or 90?  This is how the business part of entertainment works.  Once a film is given the green light, inevitably there will be problems and challenges and so if you are a novice writer or one with few credits then make yourself attractive by writing a great 90 page screenplay.

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We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master
-- Ernest Hemingway

Do I Believe In My Screenplay?

What if the one thing holding me back from being a successful screenwriter is the lack of belief?  If I never believe that I will make it, then I may not ever have success in something that I am very passionate about.  Our beliefs need to be rooted at the core of our being.  If they are only partially there, maybe we need to trace things back to where we first learned about believing or not believing in ourselves.  If we were not supported in the fact that we can achieve anything we put our minds to, maybe we need to overhaul our internal system and begin to truly believe in ourselves at the core level.  

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Belief creates the actual fact.
--William James

Make Your Impossible Screenwriting Dreams Possible

Many things in existence today were once considered impossible.  Is this how you feel about your screenwriting goals and dreams?  Every step you take towards your dream chips away at the impossible and makes it possible.  The more steps you take the closer you get.  The journey towards our dreams is a process, so enjoy the ride…

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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

-- Walt Disney

Gay Screenwriting: Failing To Succeed

Why is it that we fight celebrating failure?  Is it because we fear looking like a fool or admitting we are not perfect?  Accepting and learning from our failures is extremely important when pursuing our life's dreams.  Remember or not, there was a lot of failure when you learned how to walk.  Just think if you gave up…  Where would you be today?  When we are younger we just don't care like we do when we are older.  Try tapping back in to some of that innocence lost.  It just may give you the inspiration to write a masterpiece.

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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
--Thomas A. Edison 

Living The Screenwriter's Dream...

If screenwriting is a dream of yours, let nothing stand in the way of achieving that dream.  When obstacles appear...  find a way over them, through them, under them, around them, whatever it takes.  Obstacles can be a test to see just how bad we want our passion.  If we give up then maybe we didn't want it bad enough. 

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You have exactly one life in which to do everything you will ever do.  Act accordingly.
--Colin Wright

The Truth About Writing Gay Screenplays...

"No one can make a living writing movies."  How many times have you heard someone say something like this?  And you know what?  It's true.  What?  Yes, it is true to those who choose to believe it.  The absolute truth about anything in life is that whatever we believe is what becomes truth.  So, no matter how many scripts you write, there is something powerful about our internal beliefs.  We tend to attract exactly what it is we believe.  The great thing is that we also have to power to change our beliefs and if we believe to the core of our being that we can make a living as a working screenwriter then we will find a way to make that belief a reality.  Just ask all of the working screenwriters currently doing this very thing.

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If you choose not to pursue your dreams, you'll still be a part of a dream - only it will be someone else's.
-- Mike Hawkins

Procrastination And The Screenwriter

Isn't it amazing when we get down to undertaking a task we have put off for one reason or another that it usually takes much less time to accomplish than we thought.  Procrastination has many root causes and they are never usually about the task we are avoiding.  It might be a fear of failure, success, looking like a fool, taking a risk or a number of other things.  If we get down to the root of our procrastination and deal with it we usually see that we are more easily ready to complete whatever it is that we have avoided.  When we take that one simple action we are back on the road to living our impossible.



Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
-- Don Marquis

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Screenwriting Success Made Easy...

Follow this one simple step:

1. Forget what everyone else is telling you about how to be a successful screenwriter and trust your gut.

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Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Finding My Voice As A Screenwriter...

Entertainers of all types strive to find their unique voice and when they do the results can be golden.  Practice your craft.  Discover what it is you bring to it that is uniquely you and then concentrate on exploiting that element.  It is something that we all strive for.  Many of us spend too much time trying to copy something already out there, reinvent something or guess what it is the buyers want and we oftentimes lose ourselves in the process.  The key is to dig deep inside and find our own unique voice. -- How is this done?  This is accomplished by knowing ourselves to the core and that is done by doing the things that allow us to see who we truly are… meditation, journaling, therapy, exercise, whatever.  Find what allows you to tap in and discover what lies ahead.  It just may be the next big hit!

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All I have is a voice.
-- W. H. Audin