The Business of Screenwriting: Don’t stand in water where you should be fishing

I use fishing as a metaphor for one’s approach to screenwriting. Seriously.

It’s Saturday morning and I am here, seated amidst a half-dozen other men, my brother, and my ten year-old son at Murray’s Fly Shop in Edinburg, Virginia. We have gathered to fish on the Shenandoah River. But before we dive into our waders, we have to be…