22 Ways to Improve Your Screenwriting
taking a series of actions. Now, you’re at 1 in 500. And if you continue on that path, sooner or later, you’ll get to 1 in 10 or even 1 in 2.
If you don’t believe that, let me ask you this: What are the chances of Charlie Kaufman selling another screenplay?
He wrote BEING JOHN MALKOVICH, ADAPTATION, and other screenplays. Would you say that his chances of selling another screenplay are pretty high? Would you be shocked to hear that he sold another script in the next six months? I doubt it.
But if you’d met Charlie Kaufman when he first began writing, wouldn’t you say he was right in there with the 1 in 5,000 odds against him?
My point is this: Everyone starts at 1 in 5,000 odds and it is up to us to shift the odds until they are in our favor. Shifting those odds is just a matter of constantly improving and taking advantage of the
