Screenwriting 101: Joey Clarke, Jr.

“You have to sacrifice. Everyone, or at least most people, have to have a day job while they pursue writing. Not to mention other responsibilities. Time is limited. No one is going to magically add five hours to the day or a third day to the weekend. So, if writing is important to you, in order to make a proper effort, you have to sacrifice other facets of life — be it going out with friends, or happy hours, or watching sports or English baking shows, or sleeping. Otherwise, it’s always just going to be something you wished you had time for or are planning to do at some point and all the sudden you’re five years older than you were when you had that new idea you were so excited about. And, eventually, you’re going to be dead. If you want to write, you have to do it before that. Writing careers usually don’t work out for dead people.”

— Joey Clarke, Jr.

From Go Into The Story interview, March 2019

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