Probably the hardest part of screenwriting is getting your foot in the door?
But this is often the most difficult part of everything else too.
Don’t be discouraged now – stay with me.
- The hardest part of financial services is getting your first whale customer.
- The hardest part of acting is getting your first break-out role.
- And the hardest part of blogging is getting your first
majorbacklink.
But all of this is shorthand for something broader.
Do you know what it is?
It takes lots of it to reach any of these things…
The hardest part is to keep going.
Understand: Passion and quitting are easy. Grit and persistence is rare.
By staying in the Valley I had more reason to get in to (or on to) the Universal lot—for some reason I never feel welcome at the Universal gates, as I’ve written elsewhere. Getting on that lot has long been the hardest part of screenwriting. To this day I don’t know why.
