This has been a WONDERFUL series. I have absorbed every syllable. For me: Consistency. Need to develop the heck out of it.

Yep, great little series, and has been very helpful and some good comments throughout. It think persistence is bound up with courage - you need to have the courage and belief in your work to be able to persist with it and not get disheartened. And courage is the big one for me - getting over that hurdle of throwing stuff out there and having to the courage to follow it up, adapt, amend and chuck it out there again, not taking the knocks badly....having the courage to stand up to anything that might serve to put me off.

Scott... as with all your series... you're spot on buddy Speedo PS... I signed up for Tom's QT scene class.. can't wait.. whoohoo

what about PATIENCE!!!!! or Faith (but I guess that is tied up with Courage)

Thank you for posting this, Scott. This series has been absolutely fantastic and can't wait for the next one. The last point (perseverence), hit home for me because inevitably with the effort and the questions that come with not knowing whether you are going to succeed is just believing you can and you eventually will. Something I struggle with constantly, not because I don't like what I write or feel I have the tenets as a screenwriter, but because of that overwhelming cloud of nerves where I am a tiny spec in this huge universe of screenwriters who also want to make it just like I do. Sometimes the idea of making it feels almost too-good-to-be-true. So in my case, would also add 'courage' to keep going despite the odds because we writers all want to succeed so badly! The odds scare me, but more than that, it scares me to go so far and not succeed.

This one. and again. This one.

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