Thanks, Andrew!

Can always do with encouragement.

P.S. Hope you don't mind me merging your Everyone Sucks thread.  

This is a massive question for me and something I've struggled with increasingly in recent years.

Suggestions:

- Read scripts
- Watch films
- Ignore how difficult it is to actually get a film made.
- Ignore the many thousands of great scripts that go unproduced.
- Ignore the many thousands of great scripts that go unread.
- Cherish the stories of writers who broke in after the age you are now.

Quoted from Andrew Perhaps you have a dream, but you're not trying.

So true for a lot of us I think, myself included. And with the risk of sounding very motivational quote-y: It's easy to dream. We all have dreams. It's what you do to achieve them that matters.

Quoted from Andrew Perhaps you have a dream, but you're not trying.

I could write a manifesto on this alone.

In my opinion you shouldn't force yourself to write. If you truly want to write than inspiration will strike sometime and that is when you should write, and you will probably write your best work.

I like to write comedy sketches and singular situations, so where I struggle is longevity. When I wrote a more serious piece like "Jonah" on the shorts page, it was meant to be a feature film. It ended up being a short because 1. I struggled with the plot 2. The thought of writing a feature film was just exhausting. It was the first time I had attempted to write a serious piece never mind a feature and it got to me. I just didn't have the mental stamina.

I guess what I am trying to say is write what you are comfortable writing and then writing will be enjoyable. If you inspire to write something totally different, start slowly and don't throw yourself in at the deep end.