I Am Worried About Wasting My Life As An Artist — Glenn Gers

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Film Courage: Let’s suppose someone does feel insignificant in their creative work.

What do you advise if somebody says,

Why should I make anything? No one’s going to see it. I’ll never be “big enough” to show it to a large audience.

Glenn Gers, Author/Screenwriter/YouTuber: I am a fan of embracing your insignificance of saying the first of all on a grand scale, we are all insignificant.

I mean Shakespeare, who was magnificent and significant, is now increasingly inaccessible.

The world has changed so much since Shakespeare’s time that even though his stories keep getting passed through the contemporary and people share them in those senses and they talk about them in a sort of mythic way.

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In other words, most people won’t sit through a Shakespeare play but they will but the basic stories of King Lear or Macbeth and those the basic shape of that character’s life will inform other work and people will refer to it and that’s sort of what’s getting passed down.

But the truth is Shakespeare at a certain level is insignificant now.

And that’s the best, right?

That’s the best of the best.

And yet, if you look back at Edna Ferber.

Edna Ferber was a best-selling author in the middle of the 20th century.

She wrote the book that became the movie Giant with Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor.

She wrote several huge bestsellers.

She was a major person.

I know that there’s maybe 12 people in the audience right now…(**Watch the video interview on YouTube here**).

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About:

Glenn Gers was a professional writer of movies and television for 25 years. His credits include theatrical features including FRACTURE (2007) and MAD MONEY (2008), no-budget indies like DISFIGURED (2008), TV staff work and episodes, original cable movies, and many more. He has won multiple festival prizes and an Emmy. He shares thoughts about creative writing on his Youtube channel and his Substack, both called “Writing For Screens.”

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