I agree strongly that people need to make opportunities where they are.
Here is my latest article about that:
http://www.screenwritingforhollywood.com/screenwriting-tips/nyc-or-la-hollywood-where-should-screenwriter-liv

Let’s face it, there are a gazillion screenwriters coming out of almost every college in America and beyond. Colleges are making a fortune off these kids by churning out writers whose work may never see the night for day on a movie set unless they produce or direct them.

Personally, I feel we need more local producers coming out of colleges creating local film jobs, and less writers running off to Hollywood, but that’s just my point of view. And I suggest any writer to marry a producer if you can find one that loves you and your work as much as you love them.

But as a writer/director/producer who writes both books and screenplays, I feel the best thing for me to get out of entering a script contest is having something on the backend of it to promote my ability to write in general, regardless if I win, place or show.

After kicking around LA for nearly 30 years creating a life to draw upon I feel
that my best work is coming out of me right now in the form of my own novel series “Jozeph Picasso – Alien Trilogy, Filmmaking Adventures,” due out in October, 2010 and “Prolific Screenwriter,” a screenwriting process developed with the help of UCLA Extension of which I teach from, released July 20th 2010 in Kindle Books ASIN: B003QCIOBG and Paperback, ISBN: 1450590780 EAN13: 9781450590785 available on Amazon, Createspace.com https://www.createspace.com/3432995 and at LapTopPublishing.com.

Having the ability to draw daily upon a monetary return from my years of writing efforts is what’s most important now that I have children, a wife and a house to support.

That’s why I went out to LA in the mid-70s not only to learn how to write screenplays, but to invent a unique screenplay writing process that I could share with generations of writers who take the Hollywood Screenwriter Adventure after me, just in case I never end up selling the Great Write One to retire on. And it ain’t over yet. I’ve got three great scripts out there right now.

“Prolific Screenwriter” is that book, an Innovative Five-Step Reformatting Technique that turns outlines into screenplays and eliminates the fear of the blank page forever.

30 books and scripts later this unique writing process, that took the advent of the computer to prefect, has made writing screenplays for me so enjoyable that I had to force myself to stop writing and start marketing my scripts and now my books.

So I created my own publishing company, LapTopPublishing.com, and from here in Carmel, Indiana I now market my personal Hollywood Adventures, and use my success in screenplay contests as part of my marketing tools.

Having said that, this is what one of my scripts did in contests:

“One Lucky Pony” (aka “The Bankers Cup”)

Won First Place in WriteMovies.com A/Exposure Screenplay Contest.
Passed Quarterfinals, Entered Consider List at scDaily AAA Screenplay Contest.
Advanced To Nicholl Fellowships Quarterfinal Round.
Advanced To American Accolades Semi-final Round.

What people have said about the Script:

“One Lucky Pony is the first polo script to come my way that gets it right.”
Steve Crowder – Coach of American Cup Polo Team.

“Really well done. Congratulations!”
Alex McPhail – Screenplay Competition Director, Austin Film Festival.

If you are interested in learning more about becoming a “Prolific Screenwriter” feel free to contact me through LapTopPublishing.com

Write on,

Karl J. Niemiec

TODAY- JUNE 30TH- is our EARLY BIRD DEADLINE. Enter by MIDNIGHT PST to qualify for our $35 entry fee.

http://www.scriptoidchallenge.com

On behalf of SCRIPTOID, I’d like to say thank you for considering our competition!

ANDREA ALBIN
Competition Director