(These two obscenities shut down Mars movies for over a decade)

Be original. What you create has effect. You can inspire teenagers to study science and foster the next generation of engineers capable of solving any number of issues unrelated to either Mars or space:

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Mars will be better settled by people selected randomly from anywhere on Earth, with any amount of training, at any station of life, than by the system worms who have ass-kissed their way through the personality cleanser which passes for higher education in America. International Space University, NASA’s Astronaut Candidate Program, these bottlenecks for character will make Mars boring as hell.

They also make science-fiction boring right now: a fetish for hierarchies and chains of command, a reinforcement of comfortable, predictable, rule-worshiping by-the-book passive personalities — who will not get us anywhere — and an easy-to-write reliance upon danger, threats, and xenophobia — have become staples of science fiction.
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Write literature. Write about people. Write about interesting people who happen to live on Mars. Or plan on going there. Or settling it in a Mars to Stay mission. Write about entrepreneurs who don’t give a damn about NASA, barely remember college, and know how to get things done. Send people who would think it corny to be called astronauts. Make your settlers more interested in painting murals on their hab walls, playing guitar with their children, and understanding Mars than figuring out who isn’t following the manual from Houston. Let Houston’s Starfleet Academy worry about an astronaut driving cross-country in a diaper to assault the wife of another astronaut with whom she was having an affair. We have places to go.
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Unacceptable, lame and misleading: “I just wanted to be as accurate as I possibly could. There are, there are a few places that are inaccurate. The biggest place that’s inaccurate is right at the beginning. Um, don’t – don’t tell anybody but if you’re in a dust storm on Mars you’re not even going to feel it. Mars’ atmosphere is less than one percent of Earth’s – so a 150 kilometer per hour wind, would feel like about a 1 kilometer wind does on Earth. It wouldn’t do any damage to anything. Shhhh. […] Most people don’t know how Martian dust storms work. People don’t realize that it’s not like being in a sand blaster and it’s just more dramatic that way, so I just made that concession. I know I’m a liar I just – I just, uh, wanted that more, it’s just more dramatic.”

MARS HAS MANY STORIES
BE GENEROUS

“Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.” Dostoevsky

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“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to
an environment where excellence is expected.”

“A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work
will die without putting a word on paper.”

“Every artist was first an amateur.”

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”

“Do not despise small beginnings.”

“Write more. Do everything else less.”

“Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed –
there’s so little competition.”

“Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it!”
William Hutchinson Murray, The Scottish Himalayan Expedition

“Men are failures not because they are stupid, but because they are not sufficiently impassioned.”

“The most powerful entity on earth is a human soul on fire.”

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader.”

“The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at the worst, if he fails at least fails while daring greatly”.

Woodie Guthrie: “I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim too ugly or too this or too that. Songs that run you down or poke fun at you on account of your bad luck or hard traveling. I am out to fight those songs to my very last breath of air and my last drop of blood. I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built. I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work.”

http://www.reddit.com/r/Screenwriting/comments/20pdf3/for_the_kids/
http://www.oscars.org/awards/nicholl/fellows/25thscripts.html
https://sites.google.com/site/tvwriting/us-comedy/show-collections
http://scridx.com/

“A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die
without putting a word on paper.”

IT’S IMPORTANT MARS HAVE
MANY STORYTELLERS
HAVE FUN AND GOOD LUCK!