While great advice, it's also maddening.

Once you're written a great script (hopefully more than one), winning Hollywood is still so subject to chance -- the chance that you can get someone to care about your idea enough to read the script, the chance a manager and agent will take on a promising new writer, the chance it has in a slow overcrowded market.

Of course, it's worth every bit of frustration to take yer chances. What else can you do when writing's what you do well? : )

Well, I did make this offer.

Oh, I know -- you've got my detective script, remember? : )

You're one of the good ones. Opening doors for themselves is hard enough for pros. It's a generous gesture.

I was going to enter 2 comps, but Scott makes an interesting point, Hollywood is the only comp I should be entering.
If I don't make the Nicholl deadline, no worries.