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In football coaches always say "You going to play like you practice." This translates something like this: if you half-ass your practice sessions, you'll half-ass during the big game.
Writing a screenplay is pretty much like that. You can half-ass the writing process by goofing off, not devoting enough concentration to clarifying what your story really is, avoiding writing completely or going through the motions when you sit down to write.
Think of the completion of a first draft as the practice part of being a screenwriter.
Think of the second, third and maybe fourth,fifth or sixth draft of your screenplay as the big game.
Not taking the completion of your first draft seriously may mean you won't take all the rewrites you need to do seriously--assuming you get to the rewrites.
The screenwriters I know who aren't just playing at screenwriting are the ones who are constantly writing. Maybe not every day, but almost every day. They finish one script, work on it until it's as good as it can be, then they start the next whether they get a deal or not.
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