Employment and Work: Money and Art

I have long been a regular Joe in corporate America. But I've also long been working on writing. I wonder how much I give myself by having this other job, and how much I lose. I definitely lose momentum, when I have it, and then need to move on to go get paid. How to professional writers do it? marry well? suffer for their art? just keep trying like me?

Well the book I've been working with, with this script has helped me see how my previous writing process was comprehensive, but could be improved. As I look at other movies, I've seen where the basics proposed in this book, could have improved a mediocre movie, and how it could improve scripts I have already written. Don't get me wrong, this isn't the first class or book... I've read quite a few, but hadn't read a screenwriting book for some time, and it is re-orienting me to the craft.

What I'm realizing is that most screen writing groups focus on the process of writing a script and sharing it. But not on how you think about developing a script, and improving it before you put pen to paper.  So, I have and continue to delay in writing the new script. However, I have proceeded with exercises that have opened my eyes as to decisions that need to be made and interactions and complexities that I would have needed to untangle if I had just started writing.  

I believe that I have moved from the quick moving education to the slow moving education.  That is, the first 20 percent of what you learn covers 80 percent of the challenge. It's committing to the next bit that I believe will differentiate the dilettante/hobbyist from the professional.