The grace to be a beginner is always the best prayer for
an artist. The beginner’s humility and openness lead to
exploration. Exploration leads to accomplishment. All of it
begins at the beginning, with the first small and scary step.

FILLING THE FORM

What do I mean by filling the form? I mean taking the next
small step instead of skipping ahead to a large one for which
you may not yet be prepared. To be very specific, in order
to sell a screenplay, you must first write one. In order to
write one, you must come up with an idea and then commit
it to paper, a page at a time until you have about 120 pages
of script. Filling the form means that you write your daily
pages. It means that when obsession strikes—as it will—
about how the damn thing is not any good, you tell yourself
that this is a question for later and turn back to doing what is
the next right thing. And that means you write the pages of
the day.

Art?    You just    do  it.

MARTIN  RITT