Thank you to everyone who took the time to read this one.

To all who struggle, remember:

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't give up.

Richard Bach

I think we tend to expect perfection after a short time.  Even if logic tells us otherwise, we want to be able to write the movie or book of the year because we would like to think we're special, but we're not.  In fact, if we feel we are inferior, we are separating ourselves from everyone else by thinking we are less and the same is true if we think we are somehow more.

Each one of us is essentially the same with peaks and valleys of strengths and weaknesses.

I know that people never like to hear the "no one is a loser" spiel, but the fact is there would be no human thought experiment going on whatsoever, without all the players.

Amanda Marshal put it well:

"Don't assume everything on the surface is what you see
Cause that classmate just lost her mother
And that Taxi Driver's got a PHD... Everybody's got a story that could break your heart..."

Congratulations to everyone who participated in the last challenge.

It couldn't have happened without you.

Sandra





Congratulations to everyone who participated in the challenge.

Sandra

I don't know how I managed to double the last sentence, but if everything happens for a reason... then maybe it bears repeating.

Congratulations again.

Sandra

I wanted to read the script, and it was also assigned to me, but I do not have final draft.  Since you were kind enough to read my play, I would like to read yours if you have it in a pdf?

I enjoyed reading this script.  As previous posters have said, a lot of imagination went into this, and yes, this definitely falls under the realm of fantasy, which is fine by me.  I liked both characters.  Both were believeable as friends and their differences keep the story moving and interesting because they provide conflict.  I also liked that this was quest and, if you want to fit this in as a thriller, there is a life and death choice.  Continue or die.  It works well and gets them through all those bugs.

My question would be, what do these guys want?  They seem to mainly go with the flow of everything that happens.  Frank wants to go home, but that's after this starts.  I think it's intertesting, going back to what worked, that Frank, upon being told the name of the boat thought he was being called a wuss, and he turns out to be the weaker of the two.  But what do they get, other than life, out of doing this?  There's talk of making them champions, but champions of what?  Then after all that, they leave it behind.  Am I right on that one?  Seems a little sad to go through all that and walk away.

Still enjoyed it.