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<\/a>Any writing project is daunting. \u00a0Going from the first blank page to 100 screenplay pages or 300 novel pages is a huge challenge. \u00a0But the answer to “How do you eat an elephant?” is, one bite at a time. \u00a0The way to accomplish any goal is incremental progress. \u00a0Get started and keep going.<\/p>\nRobert Collier<\/strong>, one of the first self-help authors, said, \u201cSuccess is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.<\/p>\n Be consistent. Be diligent.<\/p>\n When I was a student in the UCLA Master’s in Screenwriting\u00a0program we had 10 weeks to go from blank page to finished first draft. The way I discovered I could meet that deadline time after time was to write 5 pages a day. \u00a0Just 5 pages. \u00a0Everyday. 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