China-Hollywood Screenwriting Fellowship

[cranefly]

Well, I'm in.  Submitted it on the deadline last Friday after 40 days effort.  I'm thinking screenplays were never meant to be written in that amount of time.

Oh, and there's a parallel Fantasy & Science Fiction screenplay contest going on as well.  So I submitted it there as well.  Multiple submissions to contests are allowed and encouraged, because the wranglers want all the money they can get.

Hard to say what my chances are.  From what I've read, it's a total crap-shoot, because you have to get past the first readers, who are paid next to nothing and don't really give a shit and are just itching for a reason to cast submissions in the trashcan.  So the best submissions seldom make it to the final round, which real professionals evaluate.  Not certain if that hurts or helps my chances.

I'll say something that may sound arrogant but it's not meant to be.  I really don't want to go back to China again.
I'm not nearly as adventurous as I used to be: 

And I feel a lot more vulnerable these days.

But I'll deal with whatever comes my way.  Because if I ever start focusing on what's behind me, that's when I'll see the ninjas closing in.