MikeBrooklyn
I've heard it's incredibly difficult. I'd recommend trying testing this theory out with regular tv instead of streaming services. Good luck with it, though; We need less cr@ppy writers in hollywood. How good are you outside of navel oriented content? That answer will help you alot.
Oh believe me, it's not for a lack of trying. I've been writing as a hobby for the past 17 years! And yes, I have tried to make it a professional career in every way and anyway I could. Screenplays, teleplays, novels, comic books, short films, adaptations, I ... have ... tried ... it ... all. At the most, my "success" has been one self-published book that was written in screenplay format (and only sold 20 copies), one self-published comic book (that as far as I know didn't sell at all), one produced short film (that can no longer be found online), and a short story for Agency Publishing, but they went out of business and deleted all their files so no one can read or share them. Is that depressing enough?
So yeah, I have plenty of screenplays for movies and TV series all sitting in my dresser drawers, collecting dust. I guess I could say my writing style is okay or average at best. If you watch the DC TV series on CW, that's pretty much what my writing is like, or for another example, it's a lot like Joss Whedon's writing. Very banter filled, pop culture references, group dynamics, heavy focus on female roles, a mix of character development and action set pieces, etc. For the most part, I try to keep the navel oriented stuff out, although I sneak certain things into the script, like the females having to wear bikinis or doing intense workouts, etc. Any excuse to get their bellies out.
I will say this much, there was this one time I was dangerously close to getting a navel fetishism movie made. I did an online pitch to Michael Davis, the writer/director of movies like "Eight Days a Week", "100 Girls", "100 Women" (he's very stomach/navel fetishism friendly). He was interested in the script, so I sent to it him. However, nothing came from it. Honestly, I would have just been happy if the movie was just made, even if I didn't get credit for it. If you want to know more, just go to my D-art page, I posted a few scenes from the movie there.
I mean, ideally, it'd be cool to get the money to just hire a director and actors and so on, and then just release it on Youtube or something. There's no real guidelines there as far as content goes, so long as you mention it's mature if it's mature, that I know of, anyways.
Yeah, I also figured the easiest route is YouTube or Vimeo. It's clear that network TV has "gatekeepers" who are hellbent on making sure people who "aren't already in the club" somehow manage to get into said club. And Netflix and Hulu probably don't take scripts until they have been fully produced into pilots. Amazon Studios is the one and only way to send a script and see if they want to get it made. But as you pointed out, there's a lot of money and work in getting people together and making a movie, no matter the length. I don't have that kind of money and patience, so I stick with writing short stories and the odd screenplay every now and then.
Currently, I have a martial arts movie screenplay that I'm really hoping I can convince Rachele Brooke Smith and Nikki Soohoo to agree to star in. And yes, I did sneak in some navel themed stuff in there, and plenty of bare belly attire. So my fingers are crossed for that one; I'll be sending them an inquiry letters soon. Other than that, I'm considering hiring artists off of D-art to make comic book art for my Huntresses story, and other works of my on that page, like The Omphale Sisterhood, and my Secret Agent Sonya fan fiction. That wasn't too much information, was it?
