Monday, Aug. 16

The Motivation to Write a Screenplay

Although Rands is speaking of his experience writing his second book, it could be applied to anyone setting out to write a big project…like a screenplay:

Don’t write a book. Even better, stop thinking about writing a book. Your endless internal debate and self-conjured guilt about that book you haven’t written yet is a sensational waste of your time. My guess is if you took all the time that you’ve spent considering writing a book and translated that into actual writing time, you’d be a quarter of your way into writing that book you’re not writing.

The article is great, including this last little thought about part-time writers and the motivation that comes from being so:

While the idea of writing books for a living is appealing, my impression is that if I stopped being a software engineering manager, my voice would quickly become an echo of how things used to be rather than how they are. Thanks, no.