How good are you trying to be?
Were you riding the bus one day, reading over the shoulder of a forty year-old woman entranced by her chick-lit novel when you said, “I can do better than that!”
Did you sit down at home, pop in the movie “Bats” and think “I should be a screenwriter?”
I’ve got news for you, if you shoot to be better than bad, you’re going to end up with nothing more than crap.
Watch your favorite movie. Re-read your favorite book. What is it about these pieces of work that you find so compelling. Right about now you should say to yourself, “I wish I could do something this good.”
Then go for it. If you use all the dredge and drivel out there as you’re measuring stick, your always going to fall short to solid, fantastic work.
Forget all the hacks and let them do their thing. You’ve got higher aspirations. The only thing you should learn from bad work is for a perfect example of what not to do.
You definitely have to set your ambitions high to get anywhere.
i hate bats. hear hear!
Left by Bobby J on April 6th, 2007