which makes it a very lonely profession. (Writing’s always a lonely profession, but when no one around you even understands what you do, it gets downright desolate.)
As it turns out, many Australians who WOULD turn their ideas into screenplays DON’T… simply because they don’t think it’s feasible.
Well, I disagree.
If you can excel at screenwriting in Australia, you can get noticed. The local industry is continually crying out for quality material. Why shouldn’t it be you that writes it?
But Australia is not Hollywood. So the career path of a screenwriter here is not quite so obvious.
That’s why I’ve identified five different and clearly-marked paths that would-be Australian screenwriters can take. I don’t know if these are the ONLY paths, but they’re the five that I could identify