I've written two registered screenplays, both while in the UCLA film school curriculum.  I started to write a third but quickly realized its cost of production would be prohibitively high as a movie, so I decided to render it as a novel.  Fortunately, my degree's in literature and linguistics, and I've been a bookworm since I was a little nerd, so I had at least a clue as to how to proceed.  The result, my first novel, Synthesis on Sexterra, is a thought-provoking exoplanetary adventure.  I decided to publish it myself because so much of the conventional publishing world has become too predictable and too concerned with "what's worked before" to promote something that challenges convention.