A great script is a fluid thing, I suspect, too ... what's great today may be out tomorrow, and vice-versa ... I think a guy (or gal) should actually write as many great scripts as they can ...

Scott,

But how do you deal with Hollywood's Catch 22?

You can’t get rep’ed without a deal and you can’t make a deal without being rep’ed.

Conundrums --- gotta love'em.

Keep Writing!

Mike's comment above hints at the real dilemma.

No one reads anything.

Reader jobs are handed out to 18 year old interns fresh out of high school. These are your guardians of story.

There's more to "making it" than simply writing a great script. You have to be extremely lucky as well.

You have to be:

1) a good writer.
2) with a great script
3) that a production company wants to buy
4) that said company has money to produce
5) that can draw the attention of the stars said company has access to

...there's a gazillion variables. And unfortunately, each one weighs heavier in the grand scheme of getting a movie made, than a "great" script.

The bottom line boils down to money. You could skip every single "requirement" simply by having money.

Thanks for a little insight into your past, Scott. Currently I'm looking to get discovered, so if you ever wanna toss an apple down on this sir Issac Newton, by all means.

Joshua James, on the other hand, need none of this. Dude has his own IMBD listing. Dude has arrived. Dude probably has armored bank car rolling up to his house right now. The studio's way of making sure the "talent" is taken care of.

Me, well-p, I'm just gonna keep writin'. The story I'm writing now is a lot of fun. Its different, yet famaliar. O chute, now I'm doin' too, talkin' in such veiled references that I'm say something, but I'm really saying nothing. The paradox continues... BUT I really am writing something cool right now.

- E.C. Henry from Bonney Lake, WA

I think you're right, Scott.

After years of hard work and searching inside myself to write what I really want to see on the screen, an industry pro is sending one of my scripts to a guy with serious credits (and who has a few big-studio movies in production as we speak). He loved the pitch and wants to read it.

Even if nothing comes of it, the fact that he responded to the concept and that I'm now at this level is an amazing feeling. And all because I fell in love with story again.