I Write Screenplays

You want to be a screenwriter? You want to have an agent? From the same shadowy hand that gave you S.ed.ition in Film Ireland 91 come a few words of cautionary advice. [Extract]

I write screenplays. Really? Some kid with an iMac portable. And the portable was paid for by his dad, and you're sitting next to him. And his mum thinks you are the answer to young Liam's problems, and her own. And you feel sorry you're not a dental hygienist, or dead.

And Liam's a punchy kid of 20 or 30 or 40 who feels you've got to listen. And he's boring you. And you've read two scripts that day, and wish it were a movie, so you could stick an ice pick in his head.
Hello Liam - from all us script editors out here.

Screenwriting is not about glamour. It's not getting paid for your work. Maybe for years. Maybe never. Doing without what you could have paid for if you had had that money. Holidays. Nice clothes. A flat. Self-esteem.
If you know that - this is for You. Before an agent, if you ever get one.

The full article is printed in Film Ireland 92