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David Gane
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Why aren’t you doing the work?

The amount of time and energy required to make excuses far exceeds the amount of time spent doing the work.

How much time? How about 30 minutes a day? How about 15? Spend 10. Write a page. In a year you will have 365 of them. That is 3 to 4 scripts.

That will be a lot further ahead than the direction you are going right now.

If you are telling everyone this is what you want to do for the rest of your life, then why aren’t you doing it right now?

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Co-writer of the Shepherd and Wolfe young adult mysteries, the internationally award-winning series, and teacher of storytelling and screenwriting.

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