I’ll be at a shoot for a TV commercial today, and up until last night’s pre-production meeting I was convinced the script I wrote for it was terrible and the actor wouldn’t be able to read it well and that everyone would see through me as a fraud. Then I read it again in the meeting and thought, “Hey, this isn’t too bad”– and remembered this very accurate summary of the creative process:
I think I need to remember this other truth when I’m stuck in steps 3 and 4: