Writing and the Creative Life: “In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail” - Film Crush Collective at 2014-01-23 10:30:38:

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Scott Myers on Glorious Failure as a Screenwriter | LA Screenwriter at 2014-01-23 12:14:41:

[…] Scott Myers of the excellent Go Into the Story blog today shared his thoughts on success and failure as a writer, and how the two aren’t as far apart as you might think. He writes: […]

Keep Movieng at 2014-01-24 05:38:47:

excellent post. big fan, here. re: VL's words... maybe quoting Cassius Longinus? http://thoughts.forbes.com/thoughts/failure-cassius-longinus-in-great-attempts as Bruce Lee did http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Failure

Jeff Messerman at 2014-01-24 09:48:05:

In nearly 25 years of whittling away at the screenwriting stick, this post reflects one of the greatest truisms I've learned of this craft. You will fail far more than you will succeed. In fact, the ratio could very well be somewhere around 80/20 in failure's favor. (er, on a good day, that is.) And, as this post suggests, you'd better learn to love the failures because they ultimately are indeed your closest friends and confidants. They will nudge and cajole your script to life. Currently toiling on my latest failure as we speak...back to work!