The other day I met with a former screenwriter.  He quit about a year ago after chasing the dream for ten years — count them, TEN!  He had an agent who never sold anything, but more importantly, he just stopped enjoying the process.  One day, mid-script, he just stopped typing. Could this be you? A [...]

It happens to all of us.  Someone says we suck and we tend to believe it.  My dad says the worst thing you can do is to get stuck in self-pity.  It’s so easy to do, but he’s right, it gets you nowhere except down in the dumps.  The trouble is, as a writer, we [...]

As promised in my last post, I would tell you about how I put together a submissions package in three days for the Canadian Film Centre’s Features program.  I heard the deadline was coming up about a week before and sat on the fence about it, unsure of its benefits before making the decision to [...]

Even the best of us get blocked or start writing crap and need something to give us an injection of creativity.  A lot of the time we get so caught up in the words, in the writing, that we forget there’s a whole other world out there.  Different things work for different people.  Maybe you [...]

The thrilling, challenging and terrifying thing about the arts is that there is no guarantee that you’ll have a career with actual income.  We continue blindly down this long and winding road toward uncertainty, hoping to reach our destination, never knowing how far we have to travel. Everyone says, “You’ll get there if you stay on the [...]