Our insecurities are getting a little annoying

Ask most people the characteristic that they find most attractive in others and you’re more than likely hear, confidence.

And yet as screenwriters, we’re constantly bamboozled with thoughts that breaking into the business is damn near impossible… that ninety-nine percent of aspiring writers will fail.

How do most of us respond?  Not with confidence, but with whining about the situation and succumbing to the pressure.  Quitting.

I’m over it.

Let’s step up to the challenge, huh?  Perhaps we respond to the challenge instead of folding.

While I was struggling to finish Super Ted, in between writing sessions, I would listen to a new song by B.O.B. over and over, though it would be Eminem’s verse that I would rewind my iTunes to.

Next time you’re thinking about quitting because you haven’t got a shot in hell, read these lyrics by Eminem, who proves that even the most impossible odds can go screw themselves.

Alright, lets pretend Marshall Mathers never picked up a pen,
Lets pretend things would have been no different,
Pretend he procrastinated had no motivation,
Pretend he just made excuses that were so paper thin, they could blow away with the wind,
Marshall you’re never gonna make it, makes no sense to play the game there ain’t no way that you’ll win,
Pretend he just stayed outside all day and played with his friends,
Pretend he even had a friend to say was his friend,
And it wasn’t time to move and schools were changing again,
He wasn’t socially awkward and just strange as a kid,
He had a father and his mother wasn’t crazy as sh-t,
And he never dreamed he could rip stadiums and just lazy as sh-t,
F-ck a talent show in a gymnasium bitch you won’t amount to sh-t, quit daydreaming kid,
You need to get your cranium checked, you’re thinking like an alien, it just ain’t realistic,
Now pretend they ain’t just make him angry with this sh-t, and there was no one he could even aim when he’s pissed it,
And his alarm went off to wake him, but he didn’t make it to the rap Olympics, slept through his plane and he missed it,
He’s gon’ have a hard time explaining to Hailey and Laney these food stamps and this weak sh-t,
Cause he never risked shit, he hopes and he wished it, but it didn’t fall in his lap so he ain’t even here,
He pretends that…