Getting up early and being consistent are two of the best things you can do for your screenwriting success.
Screenwriting success doesn’t come to those who sleep all day. As I’m sure you’ve heard self-help masters talk about the importance of getting up early. If you haven’t, allow me to introduce this concept to you. Getting up early is the one thing that can allow you to organize your life. It gives you more time to implement positive, life-changing scripts into your life-program before your day starts. Once your workday starts, your chances of getting that screenplay started goes to zero. You will be consumed by your work, family, tasks, etc. This is why it’s important to beat everyone else out of bed and get your day started early. Every major accomplishment humanity has produced came from those who got out of bed when they didn’t want to. Think about it. That movie won’t make itself. That book won’t just write itself. That screenwriting success won’t happen just because you want it to. You have to get up and make it a reality. So where does all this fit into filmmaking? Allow me to offer this hypothetical. Jane dreams of being a screenwriter and filmmaker. She’s got this amazing idea for a movie about birds. However, she works from 8:00am in the morning to 5:00pm everyday. By the time she gets home, she’s exhausted. She struggles to make herself dinner, let alone write a script or something. She has no time. To make matters worse, she’s got some health issues and fights fatigue.