The Journey is As Much the Thrill in Screenwriting Too!

Okay, I want to once again make one point clear. Arkenstone blog is intended as my personal journey from idea to execution, creation, marketing and hopefully selling my screenplay, Martin Eden. If you don't know, Martin Eden is a 1909 novel by Jack London that just so happens to be an account of a struggling writer who, after years of rejection, eventually finds fame. However disillusionment in success also comes along with that fame. There is something, almost eerily meta about this whole trip I have embarked on.

With that being said, I do not attempt to come off as some great expert in this field of screenwriting, rather I mean to chronicle the ups and downs, triumphs and  discouragements that will inevitably come along with anybody who is on the same path. I will say that in my particular case, there has been a lot of up times...just finishing a script is in itself is extremely thrilling. Entering the contest arena and watching my script place again and again was another high point in this journey. Finding creative ways to market my work through such vehicles as SellAscript.com. Amazon Studios, Talentville.com and Jerrol Lebaron's InkTip.com have all proven to be valuable resources for me.

Whoever said that it is more about the journey, rather than the destination itself that makes it all worthwhile is right, at least for me in regards to this path I am on, along with Martin Eden... again, a meta reference. Now I realize that this could also be a very discouraging, and frustrating journey for those who are desperately hanging their entire future on a script sale. To these people I say: make this your hobby and not your life. Get a real job that pays the bills, while you are working on your craft of creating and selling scripts.

I am currently waiting for two high profile producers to get back to me with feedback on my script, which they have requested. Yes, I send an occasional reminder to let them know that I'm still here. I fully realize that they may never get back to me. But the waiting, the anticipation and potential exists of that one email or phone call from an interested party saying, "Jim I would like to talk to you about your script..."  I know that I have a great script, I know that it has great potential. And I am convinced beyond the shadow of a doubt that I will one day get that call. And all the while I am having a ball!