Progress comes to the writers out there who are actually writing. Maybe they miss a week. Maybe they take a month off. But they continue to write their stories, to rewrite them, to polish and mine and ultimately finish.
Sometimes the hardest part of being a writer is writing a script you think should sell, and then moving onto the next one when it doesn’t (at least not right away).
This part — beginning again, even after you said this was the last time you’d write a script on spec — is the separator.
It makes you someone destined for success.
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