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Pursued” (1947), the film that starred Robert Mitchum and Teresa Wright,

the meeting is never about your pitch – it is always about expanding your network for the job you’ll be getting sometime in the future. Now about that pitch? Will it fly? Probably not and even if it does, most likely that pitch will never become a film. But on the upside you’ll have hopefully met some pretty cool people, you got along, you exchange

Sometimes suggestions are great and useful – and then at other times they’re simply painful because they clearly don’t serve the story but instead the circumstances (budgets, locations, egos).

check out F. Scott Fitzgerald’s collection of seventeen short stories featuring Pat Hobby, a down-and-out screenwriter and boozing hack trying to still make a living in Hollywood.

Writers often write what they want the characters to say, instead of what the characters would say.

Discipline and stamina come before craft and talent.