structure and format to screenplays. Most professions have training expectations, too. Just as no one is going to give you 0,000 to perform open heart surgery on a patient just because you’ve always dreamed of being a doctor, no one is going to give you 0,000 to write a script just because it’s your lifelong fantasy. Doctors, lawyers and other professionals get degrees and regularly attend seminars to maintain their chops and their edge, and so do writers. No matter how strongly emerging writers believe that Hollywood is a get-rich-quick-with-no-effort industry, in order to succeed, you will have to replace that belief with the simple acceptance of show business as a business.
There simply is no benefit to railing against the industry’s insistence that writers get some training before they attempt to get paid for their work. Any time you are asking