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Do you ever feel extremely confident about your new screenplay one day, then hate it the next? An even bigger question: do you ever feel confident about your talent as a screenwriter one day, then want to throw in the towel the next?
There's some good news and bad news.
The good news is that you're not alone. The bad news is that this feeling will never go away completely. Especially when you can't get an agent to like your script enough to represent you. Or a producer may love your script, but not want to do anything with it. But he'll read your next script. Or maybe more than one agent has said no and more than one producer or development person has said no. It's particularly galling when you've been assured by your core group of critics that it's a very good script.
Bottom line: being down on yourself and your talent comes with the territory. Successful screenwriters have deals fall through and get fired and get rewritten and write scripts on spec that their agents won't send out for whatever reason. You can be as confident and even arrogant as can be, but there will be times when you'll be made to feel like crap.
But it will pass.
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