In the real world of show biz, a talented writer full of ideas often do not get his/her script read or sold. "Catch 22" is very common. You'd have to have an agent, be a member of some union, have great contacts, etc., etc. You can never sit back and hope for the script to get picked up. It is a hustle business. It's hard. I've known the unfair game that the lousy writers gets their scripts read while the bright ones don't have that lucky chance. Other reasons why the prods. don't get the script made into film is: the writer wrote the script for a certain actor and that actor didn't want it and hmm, it goes to the garbage (I heard that a number of writers wrote a total of about ninteen scripts for a certain young actress and her agent didn't agree with any of them and so, result is...all scripts went straight to the garbage instead of giving to any other actresses. Sad but true in this biz.), or that actor will be available some yrs later, or bids for the script wasn't satisfactorily meet the agent's demands, or the budget asking was way over the limit, or 1001 other reasons. Show biz is like a political mess and it isn't what it used to be where you can afford to be creative and toy around and money is plentiful and where everyone volunteered to get it made. No longer does a person have a creative control over his/her work...is what most people will find in this real biz! Any questions? ---------------------------------------------------------------- Margaret Arnold BITNET: [log in to unmask] INTERNET:[log in to unmask] ------------------------------------------------------------------