From the Hollywoood Reporter:

It's incredilly hard times for professional writers let aone the new aspiring writer. 

From the article: "  

 I spent the first year after getting laid off holding on to the Hollywood dream. My old company, Whitewater Films, hired me to write a sports comedy — Puckheads — about an aging minor league hockey enforcer who gets coerced into playing for a cartel in Mexico City. Everyone loved the script. Ian Jeffers (The Grey) and I wrote a supernatural pilot about special ops forces in post-WW2 Germany tracking Hitler’s nukes. Everyone loved the script!! I wrote a contained horror film, The Vegetable, I planned to direct. OMFG. Everyone loved the script!!! ...But more and more, my calls to Hollywood went unreturned, and it became clear that despite all the kind words about my work, I could not pay the rent (and college tuition for my 18-year-old) on praise alone..."

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