... I have GOT to stop watching that show!

So... now I'm on season 5 of Californication (the one with Rza and Santa Monica Cop)... and I've just gotten to that episode where Becca's jerk boyfriend (Tyler) wrote that script called Raw and becomes the "next big thing" in Hollywood all because he asked Hank to read his script and Hank left it on his coffee table on the night he has a surprise visit from Eddie Nero (an amalgamation, I assume, of Johnny Depp and Brad Pitt) who then reads the script and flips over it.
(Sorry for the above run-on sentence).

Now, this episode both creates longing and a sense of disappointment in me:

The longing comes from the fact that I want to be in Tyler's position (though I'm about 13 years older than he was at that point) and be courted by all these agencies and be the "new hottest screenwriter in Hollywood".

And the disappointment comes from the fact that these situation (the scenario in which Tyler was "discovered") are actual stories that happen! You can make this stuff up! Life is stranger than fiction! And other bunker sticker philosophies that are regrettably true about life. Sometimes all it takes is luck, the right connections in your life and serendipity.
Sadly, I don't know anyone remotely famous.
I have a friend who knows a screenwriter who penned numerous hit movies in the 80's and 90's and slid him one of my scripts, but nothing came of that. That was back in 2013 and I wrote a whole entry about it.
I guess I just have to rely on Greenlight My Movie and submitting my endless barrage of query letters.

I've also decided that, no matter what the cost, I have to make it to Fade In's Hollywood Pitchfest next year.
I've got to get a one-sheet created for Personal Demons and I've got to get my stuff together.
Posting on Craig's List right now for a graphic designer.

I really need to put some steam into this engine... Burroughs published Junky when he was 39. He says that if he hadn't published it, then he might have stopped writing.
Don't think I'll ever stop writing, but I've got to try harder than I've been trying.
A career such as the one I have planned is not made of words alone... Though words are incredibly important.