Chapter 5Starting Again
“And then the dreams break into a million tiny pieces. The dream dies. Which leaves you with a choice: You can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.”
Nora Ephron
We’ve been talking about the lack of rules in building a screenwriting career—what works for your friend may not work for you, and vice versa. And it’s true. There’s no such thing as a right or wrong. But there’s one thing that’s a definite: If you give up, you’re out. Not for good, necessarily. You could give up today and change your mind tomorrow. But this is one of the few things you can control in this business—whether you choose to persist.
In the last chapter, you read about writers who moved into a screenwriting ...
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