Meet Rob McNeil

We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Rob McNeil. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Rob below.

Hi Rob, appreciate you sitting with us today to share your wisdom with our readers. So, let’s start with resilience – where do you get your resilience from?

Each challenge has been tougher than the last. I struggled working in the corporate world for years and made it through that. I went through the worst financial hardship I had ever encountered about a year ago. I lost my job, crashed my car, and went through a breakup all at once. I had friends and family who had my back and picked me up through this. But my resilience came from my ability pick myself up off the ground, dust myself off, and power through. Ultimately you have to love what you do so much that nothing will stop you from working towards attaining your goals.

Thanks for sharing that. So, before we get any further into our conversation, can you tell our readers a bit about yourself and what you’re working on?

I am a screenwriter who is working towards a career in Film and TV. I have written across all genres and my ability to create characters and worlds in the context of any genre makes me a very prolific writer. I firmly believe I can be one of the next great writers in Hollywood or within the Indie world. I have recently written two Dramedy features and a Dramedy/romance Pilot.

There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?

Knowledge of the industry at large, self awareness/emotional intelligence, and knowledge of people (i.e. how people think and interact). My advice to anyone pursuing screenwriting is to live life, put your heart fully into your scripts, and to read as many scripts and watch as many movies as possible.

Looking back over the past 12 months or so, what do you think has been your biggest area of improvement or growth?

I would say that putting my heart on the page has been the biggest thing I improved on over my previous scripts. My scripts in the past had been described as more distant, detached, or even cold. But now that I have thrown caution to the wind and have been more vulnerable and open on the page to the point of risking embarrassment. But I feel that this has been a testament to the successes of my recent work.

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