coach outlet online TEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL SCREENWRITERS By Derek Rydall Founder

TEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL SCREENWRITERS

By

Derek Rydall

Founder, ScriptwriterCentral.com



揃ad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of,?

-- Unknown





揧our net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones,?br /> -- Benjamin Franklin



Think of this as a quick-reference for instant inspiration ?whether you抮e a screenwriter or script consultant:



1. DO SOMETHING PRODUCTIVE EVERY DAY

Write something every day ?whether it抯 your project or an assignment. If you find yourself stuck just staring at a blank screen, try staring at a great script instead -- and try to figure out how it抯 put together. It might inspire you to get your own writing done. The point here is to keep exercising and refining your craft, building your knowledge, and keeping the momentum ?all of which will give you a competitive edge. This isn抰 about becoming a workaholic. It抯 about breaking through the inertia of complacency. It抯 so easy to get comfortable, to settle for the status quo, to rationalize why you抮e not doing what you know you need to in order to succeed. 揑 don抰 fee like it,?is not a viable excuse anymore.



2. TAKE FREQUENT BREAKS

This may sound like a contradiction to the above habit. It抯 not. In fact, without this one, you won抰 be able to sustain the level of quality and productivity referred to above. Unless you抮e able to take a break (whether it抯 ten minute, an hour, a day, or a week) and recharge, you抣l soon be booking a room in burnout city.



3. GET ORGANIZED

A messy, disorganized office is an energy sapper if there ever was one. Not just because it takes longer to find that important document under that stack of unopened bills, but also because it literally pulls power from your psychic field. Every little 憈oleration?you put up with burns fuel that could be put to much better use in growing your business.



4. WORK WHEN YOU WORK BEST

Some of us are morning people. Others are struck with the muse at the stroke of midnight. If you don抰 already know, find out what time of day you work best, and gear your most labor-intensive activities for that time period. (Of course, if you抮e on a deadline, you might have to work around the clock, but that抯 a different issue.) If you schedule your activities based on your energy cycles, you will find your productivity take a quantum leap. For example, I have two periods when I work the best ?late morning and late afternoon. So I try to schedule the heavy-lifting (writing, analyzing) during those hours. When I first get up, I need to ease into the day抯 work, so I do more preparatory work, like going over the day抯 schedule, straightening up the office, e-mails. Once I抦 warmed up, I crack open the script or writing file and get to work for a few hours. I break for lunch, meditation, make calls, work out, do some errands ?and start my second writing period. Then it抯 home for family time, dinner, and bedtime stories. But not my bedtime. Because at night, my energy cycle is perfect for opening mail, paying bills, filing, during simple research ?tasks that don抰 take a lot of energy.
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