This week's Answer: Why
Even Start When You Know All You're Going To Do Is Finish
And Have To Start Again?
Gail, I think you’ve come down with
a case of FMSBHSOYS (Finished Many Screenplays But
Haven’t Sold One Yet Syndrome).
It’s not life-threatening.
But it’s no fun, either.
Or you’re just generally depressed.
Here’s what you can do:
REMEDIES
FOR FMSBHSOYS
1.)
Stop depressing yourself about screenwriting
(unless you want to write a screenplay about depression
– which might uplift you)
OR
2.)
Stop talking to people who wait to see screenplays
you haven’t written
OR
3.)
Stop writing screenplays
OR
4.)
Start writing screenplays, but be sure to never
finish them so you won't ever get FMSBHSOYS
OR
5.)
Continue to write screenplays, submit them often, and stay
as optimistic as possible.
Unless that’s too
depressing.
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