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How to quit your job and write full-time in nineteen short years : Screenwriting

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Hey everyone, today was my last day at my job. Tomorrow will be my first as a full-time screenwriter. I’m a little buzzed right now – both from the beers consumed at my going away party and from how exciting and daunting this lifechange is – so I figured I’d type up some thoughts. This ran a little... long. Please forgive any typos. For those of you who don’t know, this has been my dream for quite some time. I wrote my first screenplay in 2004 and gave this career a pretty good effort for the next ten years or so. I had a limited amount of success toward the end of that run, landing a manager in 2012, optioning a script to a big producer, and getting a bit of momentum behind a couple of other projects. Then, as things in Hollywood often do, those things fell apart, and I essentially stepped away from the business. In 2020, I decided that I was going to give my dream another try. I wanted to know for sure that I’d given it my all, so I got after it with everything I had. In 2021, I sign

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