A brilliant article. Great one, Julie and cheers for getting this doing one on this, RB. I especially like "Going up against thousands of other writers is a good way to find out how you are doing."
I thought I'd enter the Scriptapalooza comp a few weeks ago. I had never entered a screenplay competition before and as I had just completed perhaps one of the most bizarre scripts I had ever written, I thought I'd enter it. See how it fared and as Julie said: Submit and don’t look back :)
Keeping perspective entirely, RB! Nobody has requested the script and I don't have an agent anymore to pimp it out, so whilst I'm casting and awaiting financing for my movie Knockout, I thought 'what the heck, give it a go!' Cheers for the encouraging boost as ever pal.
Think that's absolutely the right approach, Ben. As the saying goes, there's no one road into town...Not in this business.