My Writing Challenge For 2026

I always come up with these ideas where I am going to do so much with my writing, but then I either get bored with the project, convinced I’m not good enough and nobody’s going to read it or that it’s never going to get published. I would get discouraged by my own insecurities about my writing so I’ll stop writing and not finish anything that I started.

My blog has always been a place where I can write what I want, but I feel like that can only go so far. I want to be more than just my blog. I wanted to tell stories and be able to create a world that when it’s over, I feel like I’ve done something.

I’ve always known from an early age that I’ve wanted to work in the film industry, but it’s hard business to get into especially as a writer. I’ve been wanted to write movies for as long as I can remember, but since I feel like as someone who doesn’t have any connections in the film industry, it’s hard for me to get my writing seen by producers. I’ve met people who work in film, but I don’t want them to think I’ve met them just so I can use them to get a meeting with someone. I want to be able to find my own way into the film industry.

That’s when my writing challenge comes in. I want to start working on getting better at writing screenplays and be able to get my ideas down on paper. I’ve tried to write books, but I could never find the patience to get past the first couple of chapters. I’ve always seen my stories as movies so when I write, I can picture scenes play out like a movie in my head so I naturally will write my stories and ideas as a screenplay and not as a book. Screenplays come more easily to me.

My plan is to write one screenplay a month in 2026. Every month first of the month, I will start a new screenplay and I will have the entire month to work on it. By the end of the year, I should have 12 screenplays.

I know I’m crazy for trying to attempt to do something like this, but honestly, I need something to keep me busy. I have a lot of free time and I’ve been hanging out at home a lot so I thought why not put my focus and energy into something that will help me get better and help me improve. I know I can write a screenplay since I’ve already wrote a full length movie back in 2021/2022.

This writing challenge will probably make me rethink this idea, but I want to be able to work as a writer in the film industry. I need to be able to show that I’m able to work under pressure and be able to write a screenplay by a certain deadline. Some writers only have days to come up with a full script. I’m giving myself a month.

I may do end of the month updates on how I did and if I was able to finish the screenplay. Maybe I tell you a little bit about the story and little fun facts about the screenplay. You just have to keep coming back to check in and see how I’m doing.

I'm hoping that if I manifest and talk about my screenplays than maybe it will get someone's attention and they will be interested in producing one or more of them. I don’t want my screenplays to live in a binder in my office. How am I supposed to become a screenwriter if nobody knows that my screenplays exist?

This challenge will also help me work on projects that I've started and not finished. All those books I tried to write, but failed could can be written into a screenplay. Alot of my ideas sounded great in my head, but when I try write them as a book, I can't seem to get passed the first few pages so I thought I'll re-write them as a movie. It will give me a chance to go through things I’ve written and edit along the way as I format my stories into a screenplay.

It makes more sense with how my brain works. This will give me a chance to focus on the stories I want to tell.

I will still post on my blog as much as I can when I'm not working on a screenplay, but my focus needs to change and by doing this, I can work on something that I've always wanted to do. It's going to be hard, but if I want to be a screenwriter, I have to do something about. People aren't going to know about me if I don't have anything to back it up. The more work I put into it, the more serious I can be taken in the industry.

I hope you can hold me accountable and encourage me to keep going. Help me stay off the crazy train and keep me focused. I hope this challenge will help me get one step closer to being able to write in the film industry.