{"id":112,"date":"2008-01-25T08:15:32","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T20:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/25\/meeting-other-writers\/"},"modified":"2012-09-23T15:44:28","modified_gmt":"2012-09-23T03:44:28","slug":"meeting-other-writers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/meeting-other-writers\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting Other Writers"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you spend lengthy periods of time in a cave, wrestling mightily – nay, epically<\/b> (?) – with your caffeine addiction<\/strike> current project, the idea of temporarily abandoning your lair to meet another screenwriter can seem a daunting prospect. Who wants to spend a potentially awkward half-hour with someone you may only have swapped emails or forum<\/a>-posts with?<\/p>\n

Yes, that’s a risk. But a big reward for meeting other writers is the reminder that You’re Not Alone. You both know the agony of creativity. You’ve been through the horror of development. And if you’ve been rewritten and can – after some mourning or therapy – talk about it, you’ll find a camaraderie not often seen outside the armed forces.<\/p>\n

One other thing you share – though you may not acknowledge it at first – is how your prior experience of meeting writers at parties and funerals and such has fashioned your approach to such encounters. My own meet-and-greets have fallen into two very general categories:<\/p>\n