How do you know you're meant to be a writer? Here's a hint: Do you keep working despite the constant rejection,self doubt,and the little to no income to show for the hundreds of hours of blood, sweat and tears poured into your pages? If you won an Oscar for your screenplay,(and the big payday to go with it)...would you stop?
Here's a quote from Aaron Sorkin, right after he won an Oscar for the Best Adapted Screenplay for The Social Network.
“Well, I’ll be very candid with you. Lately, and really since the movie came out and it got the kind of critical reaction that it’s got and cultural reaction that it’s gotten, I feel like I’ve been hyper aware that whatever I write next is going to be the thing I wrote after The Social Network. I’m going to spend tonight enjoying this and tomorrow starting something new. I think that’s what I have to do. I just have to keep writing, keep doing what I’ve always been doing which is writing, trying to write something that I like, something that I think my friends will like, something that I think my father would like and then keep my fingers crossed that enough other people will like it that I can earn a living.”
Now THAT'S a how a real writer thinks.
Amen. And thanks for this which will serve as a reminder to someone who is ready to give up.
ReplyDeleteIt is persevering through those low times that sets the writers apart from the dabblers.