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What does it really take to survive a creative career when success is this lopsided?

When I say it didn't work for six years, I worked my ass off.

For six years, I was writing and pitching and taking meetings and attaching producers, and I worked all the time. It just didn't make a buck on

anything. Bob DeRosa is a screenwriter who's made movies, stream shows, and had projects shelved.

And he's honest about what it takes to, quote, unquote, make it. And the fact is, there are no shortcuts.

Every article is like somebody wrote their first script and made a million bucks, or somebody

got their first script made and won them the Oscar. They only talk about the giant wins.

They don't talk about the day-to-day. Nobody writes an article about, I wrote five scripts

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