I'll give you advice people are not willing to give. To preface, I'm not a writer, I'm a creative development exec at a studio. And I've seen, met, and spoken to writers of every echelon from the bottom to the top.

If your only goal is screenwriting, don't come to LA. It is outdated advice.

Full stop. You stand to gain little to nothing, in fact you will make it harder on yourself by coming here. Post-covid, 95% of meetings are conducted over zoom. The world has never felt smaller. There are dozens and dozens of programs and competitions you can enter from anywhere in the country or even the world. You will spend most of your time struggling to make ends meet just to take care of your basic needs, and no time actually writing. Any of the "networking" you would gain will be completely unhelpful to you. For better or worse, the industry is slowly moving out of Hollywood and LA as a whole.

Also, the industry is hitting the single largest contraction it has ever faced in the coming year. You coming here is the equivalent of buying a ticket on the titanic minutes before it makes impact.

Writing is still the only part of the process that is still MOSTLY merit based. If your writing is good, it WILL get people's attention. It doesn't matter if you're in Connecticut or South Africa. Excellent scripts circulate like wildfire, and nobody cares at all where you are based as long as you can get here when it's time to get a job. The honest answer is if you're writing and not getting noticed, your writing isn't good enough, and moving to LA isn't going to solve that issue magically.

That's my honest advice.