So you tried and you failed . That ' s actually AWESOME seriously , no sarcasm here . Now do it again . Fail better next time . Generally , you learn more from failing than you do from succeeding . Probably because mistakes are just easier to see it likely also helps that people will fall all over themselves to point out flaws in something . So the best thing you can do to improve is to keep trying and failing . You ' re going to fail a lot , everyone does , but you tend to fail at different things each time , resulting in overall improvement . A couple of tips that have helped me with my writing NEVER delete anything . Seriously , save all of your old work , keep it for reference . Keep notes with your old work detailing what about it worked and what didn ' t . Study other peoples ' work screenplays and such and critique them as well . Steal the good stuff from other peoples ' work . Not in a plagiarism way , obviously , but if , while studying other peoples ' work , you notice hey this film is really good at this thing I ' m terrible at then give the technique a try and see if it improves your work .