Screenwriting?

The only thing you can count on as a screenwriter for income is that you cant count on it. There are 100,000 screenplays submitted every year. Maybe a hundred get made. And that’s probably generous. HOWEVER, it is a worthwhile endeavor that I recommend. I have completed five screenplays and have received maybe a hundred rejections. But I keep trying. But there is nothing more exhilerating than completing one. It’s yours forever. And nobody can EVER take that away from you.

Sign up for American Zoetrope, Francis Ford Coppola’s interactive site for writers. There, you can read other people’s submissions, evaluate them, and submit your stuff to be reviewed. It’s a wonderul site and a good place to start. As for school and fears about a career in this area, stop fearing. Go out and do it. Go to USC film school. Or the School For The Performing Arts. Or go to another school taking a different major, with some theater classes. The possibilities are endless. And the last thing you want to do is turn into someone who is fifty years old and never tried.

they say it takes approximately 5 screenplay to incredibly come into your man or woman voice. Your first screenplay is merely approximately absolute to suck, however the longer you keep at it, the extra useful you get. You gotta start up someplace, and with a powerful sufficient editor, it incredibly does not count number how awful you’re at English.

I tried screenwriting, but they kicked me out of the theater. Said I was in the way of the movie they were showing while I was writing on their screen. Life is unfair!!