I’ve been a screenwriter pretty exclusively for 13 years now. In that time I’ve had almost 20 feature jobs. I’ve worked on some great things and sometimes even liked some of what I wrote. It’s been a good career by almost any measure, and I love that I still get to do this. /1 The hazards of being a feature writer are huge; the barrier to entry is high, our working careers are often brutal and short, at their best deeply unpredictable, and we work in a world where, to put it mildly, the writer often isn’t exactly king of the story. /2