If for some unexplained reason you've decided that, yes, the one thing that you want to do with your life is write movie screenplays - like, for an actual living - please take a seat, the doctor will be with you momentarily to diagnose you with BROKEN BRAIN SYNDROME. What were you thinking? Did somebody inject you with pure optimism the morning you thought that one up? Don't you know what you're getting into? That you're setting yourself up for years of heartbreak? Okay. Keep calm. Breathe. All of that, then, is basically another way of saying... screenwriting is hard. Even if you're a professional who sold their last script for a whopping seven-figure sum, screenwriting is hard. So for an amateur - somebody trying to break into the industry - there's a lot that can go wrong. If you've ever sat down to write a screenplay, you'll know how things like "the internet" and "getting drunk" can divert your attention away from actually writing anything. And those are just a couple of the non-script based issues associated with trying to accomplish what is - in essence - an insanely long and mind-numbingly futile task. To assure you that you're not alone in that quagmire of self-loathing you call "Oh, I'm working on a script right now," here are 23 problems that pretty much all aspiring screenwriters tend to face on a frequent basis...
