2. Overcoming The Idea That You're Just Kidding Yourself With This Whole Thing Anyway
"OF COURSE I'm going to make it as a Hollywood screenwriter! All I have to do is work hard and if I sit here and do exactly that, how could I not achieve my dreams? How could I... how... could I.... how... OH GOD, PLEASE GIVE ME SOMETHING!" It's not as if the odds are a million in one or something. Oh, wait: those are exactly the odds.
1. Understanding That You Can't Get An Agent If You Haven't Had Something Produced, But You Can't Get Something Produced Unless You Have An Agent
"Yeah, so my script is about this really talented aspiring screenwriter who can't get an agent because nobody will even look at the script, and in the end he goes crazy and kills a bunch of people, and then blows his brains out with a shotgun." It's an autobiographical work, see. Like this article? Let us know in the comments section below.
