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Film Courage: Do you think anybody can be a working Hollywood screenwriter?
Jill Chamberlain, Script Consultant/Author/Writer: So much is out of your control. Are you saying does anybody have the potential? Sure, right, I don’t believe that anyone should be excluded for who they are, their background or anything like that. But whether or not they’re going to have success, that’s out of your control. You just can’t control that.
I mean there are things you can do to prime yourself so you’re in a better position if and when it happens, but I know lots of writers who are really good and worked really hard and have not been able to make a living in the industry.
I also know people who have been successful and then they stopped getting work. There’s just zero guarantees in any of this.
Film Courage: What advice would you give to your younger self about being a screenwriter?
Jill: I would first tell them that it is not like a career where you can just put a plan together and work hard and expect you’re going to succeed in. There are just too many things outside of your control. I see a lot of people, and I did this when I was younger, beat myself up the first time I submitted to Sundance and got rejected. It killed me. Instead of realizing there are so many factors outside of my control. Not only is it a huge numbers game, there are all sorts of things going on that are not in your control.
I think there’s this unhealthy mindset a lot of people have and I probably had too if you just try enough…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
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Jill Chamberlain is the founder of a screenwriting school, a script consultant, a screenwriter, and the author of The Nutshell Technique: Crack the Secret to Successful Screenwriting.
The Nutshell Technique is considered the go-to manual many professionals swear by. It’s on the syllabus at film schools all over the world and has been published in Mandarin Chinese, Korean, and Italian, and in audiobook format.
As a script consultant, Jill has fixed and fine tuned scripts for Oscar-nominated screenwriters, top television showrunners, screenwriters whose movies have made over a billion dollars at the box office, award-winning independent filmmakers, and for many, many spec script writers.
In 2006, Jill founded The Screenplay Workshop with Jill Chamberlain (Screenplayworkshop.org) where she has personally taught thousands of screenwriters feature film and episodic television writing. Complete beginners to Emmy-winning screenwriters and award-winning producers enroll in her classes.
Find out more about her and her script consultancy at jillchamberlain.com.
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