I hope you bring your A game if/when you put a script now.

SimplyScripts.com started out six years ago as a personal bookmark of neat scripts on the 'net.  It grew.  Later I got requests from people who wanted their scripts posted on the net for others to read.  I posted a few, though only those I thought were good.  

Then I got a request from a young boy to post his script.  The format was wrong, the stories were silly and he kept pestering me to post them.  I did.  He wrote more stories.  I posted those, too.  He wrote me a letter telling me that seeing his stories on the web inspired him to write more.  And, the feedback he got inspired him to write better.  He wrote better.  He spell checked them before he sent them to me.  I was relieved.  

It was then I decided that no matter what I thought of the story. No matter how badly written or badly formatted the story was, everyone would get a chance on SimplyScripts.com.  

So, that is why all the stories get an equal footing on the site, much to the consternation of some who ask me to separate out the wheat from the chaff.  When it comes to an idea, what is wheat and what is chaff, is hard to tell.  A great idea can come in bizarre forms.  A stupid idea can be served up beautifully.  (This doesn't mean that I don't appreciate a great idea served up in 'generally accepted screenplay format').  

The site is meant to give everyone a chance.  The unproduced section of this site gives everyone a chance to work through the bad spelling or strange formatting to focus on the story that they want to tell.  When I got an email from someone asking me to take down their script, I was elated.  Someone saw it and wanted to produce it.  Six months later it happened again.  Now it happens every month or so.  None of the scripts 'discovered' on the site, to my knowledge have been "six figure block busters", but that isn't the point.  If you are here with "how much can I make" on your mind.  You are in the wrong place.  If you are here with, "I have this crazy idea," Then, no matter who you are, you are in the right place.  At one point, someone wrote a story from their heart and laid it out for others to read, warts and all.  And someone read it.  And it became a movie.

I hope Don doesn�t rip me a new one for rehashing an old post� but I think that his (admirable) declaration of why this site exists will give you a (somewhat) better insight as to why scripts of a questionable manner will show up on here�

I dug this up from the �Getting to know you� section�

[quote=SimplyScripts]SimplyScripts.com started out six years ago as a personal bookmark of neat scripts on the 'net.  It grew.  Later I got requests from people who wanted their scripts posted on the net for others to read.  I posted a few, though only those I thought were good.  

Then I got a request from a young boy to post his script.  The format was wrong, the stories were silly and he kept pestering me to post them.  I did.  He wrote more stories.  I posted those, too.  He wrote me a letter telling me that seeing his stories on the web inspired him to write more.  And, the feedback he got inspired him to write better.  He wrote better.  He spell checked them before he sent them to me.  I was relieved.  

It was then I decided that no matter what I thought of the story. No matter how badly written or badly formatted the story was, everyone would get a chance on SimplyScripts.com.  

So, that is why all the stories get an equal footing on the site, much to the consternation of some who ask me to separate out the wheat from the chaff.  When it comes to an idea, what is wheat and what is chaff, is hard to tell.  A great idea can come in bizarre forms.  A stupid idea can be served up beautifully.  (This doesn't mean that I don't appreciate a great idea served up in 'generally accepted screenplay format').  

The site is meant to give everyone a chance.  The unproduced section of this site gives everyone a chance to work through the bad spelling or strange formatting to focus on the story that they want to tell.  When I got an email from someone asking me to take down their script, I was elated.  Someone saw it and wanted to produce it.  Six months later it happened again.  Now it happens every month or so.  None of the scripts 'discovered' on the site, to my knowledge have been "six figure block busters", but that isn't the point.  If you are here with "how much can I make" on your mind.  You are in the wrong place.  If you are here with, "I have this crazy idea," Then, no matter who you are, you are in the right place.  At one point, someone wrote a story from their heart and laid it out for others to read, warts and all.  And someone read it.  And it became a movie.