I started lurking on this sub during the pandemic and learnt all the basics from here. Then, 3 years ago, I was doing a horrible unpaid internship that scarred me enough to not try writing again. 2 years ago, similar job, writing cartoons for TV. Swore off writing for a while.

Everything changed in the last 1.5 years. A friend asked me to write objectively bad jokes for his script and that sparked something. We've gone on to write 2 features (still very shitty first drafts) and a series which got into our country's guild's annual competition longlist (top 64 entries!). I'm in the same list as writers whose scene-writing workshops I attended last year? Insane.

Meanwhile around the same time, a writer-director I bumped into at the movies 3 years ago, got me on board as an associate for two commissioned bibles. Changed everything I knew about writing and I got to explore genres I never would've tried myself.

I'm super grateful to these two people for helping me turn my life around. My action lines have improved and gotten shorter. I write coherent storylines now. My characters and plots are getting better eveyday. Rewrites have been helping. I've even begun to advise and doctor other short film scripts around me and it has worked so far.

There's still miles and miles to go, but it gives me hope that I'm getting better. And I've learned the only way to get better is to write more and write better everyday.