"Flamin' Funerals" and "A Day in the Life"

About 10 years ago I did the self teaching thing via a couple of books (thanks Sid Fields) thing and taught myself how to write screenplays. Hey, anyone can do it? Over a three year period I managed to write "A Day in the Life" and "Flamin' Funerals", one very average script and the other not too bad but would need a major polish before the world would show some love. These screenplays did the rounds and I had no luck. Life intervened in the form of major operations, work, getting married and having children and now I have a bit more life experience I am motivated again to try my hand at writing another screenplay and selling the sucker - this is my story...