How Can You Maximize Your Screenwriting Success?

How can you improve your chances of screenwriting success?  Have you ever thought about adapting a novel, short story or even a play based on your screenplay.  It's all about gathering a following these days.  Hollywood is all about calculated risks when it comes to purchasing a screenplay.  If you already have an audience in place they are much more apt to be interested in your story.

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Why Do I Write Screenplays?

Do I want fame and fortune?  Is it my passion that drives me?  Do I have a story to tell?  Am I wanting to change the world?…

We all write movies for one reason or another.  One big question to ask ourselves is…  Would I write screenplays even if I never got paid?

Wow!  Heck No!  Absolutely Not! Never!…

One key thing to pay attention to here is one's response to the money aspect.  If the almighty dollar is your major drive, then maybe it's time to rethink your journey down screenwriting row.

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.
-- Nadia Boulanger

My Screenwriter's Voice

Finding your unique voice as a screenwriter is something that takes time to develop.  Trust the process.  No true growth has ever come about without challenges.  Continue to write, work on your personal development and when you are wanting to quit and do something else… keep going!  Your next script could be a masterpiece. 

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Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

-Dr. Seuss 

I'm Never Going To Make It!

We have all had these types of days when our negative thinking gets the best of us.  The key thing to remember is that this is temporary.  Do we really know what tomorrow has in store for us? It is best to nurture ourselves through the challenging times.  No one ever said chasing ones dreams was easy but it beats the alternative.

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Patience, persistence and perspiration make un unbeatable combination for success.

--Napoleon Hill

One Last Excuse...

When it comes to pursuing our writing dreams, we can come up with a multitude of excuses for not having the success we desire.  One of the best excuses we can make is…  "I am not in charge of my life."  We may not be completely at the helm of the universe but one thing for sure is that we have the free will to take actions that will advance our lives and dreams.  So, why not take every action possible today to take me one step closer to making my screenwriting dreams a reality?

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I am in control of my daily actions.

--David Jensen

My Role...

I know my role as a screenwriter.  It's to write the script, cast, direct, score and edit, correct?  Many writers make the mistake of reviewing shooting scripts, which leads them down the wrong road if they want to sell their script. Many masters of the craft find they make some of the same mistakes.  The story and characters are the most important elements in your screenplay, so keep it simple and leave everything else out.

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I do not over-intellectualize the production process.  I try to keep it simple.  Tell the damned story.

-- Tom Clancy

What Story Am I Telling?

If we enter the world of our screenplay with our fixed goals in mind we may miss amazing miracles that often happen during the intuitive writing process.  Yes, it's good to have an outline but if we are so married to what we think the movie should be we could be setting ourselves up for failure.  There are many factors at work when we undertake the journey with our characters in their universe.  Remember, it is their world after all.  If I want one of my characters to turn left when they want to turn right, I have altered their true course.  When I trust the characters to take me on a journey where they are in control, I just may have a masterpiece in the creation.

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If the story you're telling, is the story you're telling, you're in deep shit!

--Robert McKee