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Don |
Posted: June 9th, 2016, 4:06pm |
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Schoolies Week by Warren Duncan - Horror - Four friends attending Schoolies Week, Australia's Spring Break, must fight for more than their right to party when a virus spreads through Surfers Paradise. 94 pages - pdf, format |
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Warren |
Posted: June 12th, 2016, 10:50pm |
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Hi all,
Love to get a few reads and comments on this if possible. It's my first feature and it has been a long time in the making.
Happy to return the favour if anyone wants something specific read.
Thanks in advance.
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Dreamscale |
Posted: June 13th, 2016, 11:40am |
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Hey Warren. I've seen you around here and you appear to be going about this the right way, by reading and commenting on other scripts, and even asking for reads here.
So, I thought I'd throw you a bone and see what we have here.
Not being from AussieLand, the title threw me. So, I did some research into Schoolies Week. In your logline, you refer to it as "Australia's Spring Break", but that's actually not true. No big deal, though.
So, I read up to page 13 and threw in the towel.
You open on a very cliche scene and what follows continues to be very cliche. I can't be certain, but I'm pretty sure I've seen this exact same plot several times. But hey, who cares, right? It's hard to come up with a completely unique premise and what matters most is how you pull it off.
I'm sorry to say that you didn't pull it off here, though. What I read is slow, generic, and predictable. Your writing is also very "stale". Nothing jumps off the page or seems to have any life. Lots of passive lines. Even the lines that aren't written passively, read like a grocery list, with no life. And finally, the biggest stake through this zombie's face is the dialogue. None of it sounds realistic. None of the characters sound believable.
On a positive note, compared to most scripts posted on SS, this is much cleaner in terms of writing mistakes, but there are still numerous issues throughout, mainly missing commas. But, there is an issue that continues throughout that I want to bring up, as you may not be aware.
Your passages are not broken up correctly. What you want to shoot for in a passage, is a single thought, action, description, or "shot". Think about it this way, if you were filming this yourself with a single camera, every time you have to move the camera or stop filming, you want a new passage. Check this out from your script, page 11...
"Gerald flips Janice on to her back and grabs her hair. He bares all his teeth. A Car SCREECHES to a halt. Two POLICE OFFICERS jump out and unholster their weapons."
You start this passage with Gerald attacking Janice, and baring his teeth. Then, you've got "a Car" screeching to a halt somewhere, followed to by 2 cops getting out.
This is obviously not 1 thought, action, or shot.
On a different note, this whole attack is tough to swallow, so to speak. Gerald has turned into a rabid beast, capable to ripping flesh from bone, yet feeble little Janice, who is 60 years old, is able to push him off her and take off running again. Doesn't work for me.
On the same page, check out this dialogue from Janice, as Gerald is literally biting off flesh from her arms,
"Stop, Gerald. Please stop."
It was at this point that I began wondering if this is supposed to be serious or some kind of pisser. Know what I'm saying? If that scene was filmed, it would come off like comedy, based on that dialogue.
I hope this helps and makes sense. If you need more examples of what I'm talking about, just let me know.
You're on the right track and you've found the best place to learn about writing. Just make sure you do alot of reading and commenting and I'm sure you'll get lots of help.
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Warren |
Posted: June 13th, 2016, 8:03pm |
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LocationSydney, Australia Posts3897 Posts Per Day 1.36 |
Thanks for the read. Much appreciated.
So you got me on the Spring Break/Schoolies Week thing. I do realise they are not exactly the same thing. It is an Australian tradition that many people, just like you, may not have been aware of. Because of this fact I decided that the similarities that they did share, which I think are a fair few, warranted me drawing the comparison.
I always felt this was cliché, but I ran with the idea anyway. As it was my first piece of writing I really tried to use it to work on the more technical side of writing and potentially the story suffered. I don't think that or I wouldn’t have submitted it, but if you only got to page 13 it’s not looking good.
Note sure where the missing commas are. Some examples, if you have the time, would be great. I feel I am a bit of a grammar nut when it comes to my writing so that one was surprising to me.
As far as the way the action has been broken up, I will definitely have a look at that. Not going to lie that one slipped through the cracks. Thanks for pointing it out.
Point taken with Janice and Gerald, that’s just stupid. Easy fix.
Definitely not meant to be a comedy, so I clearly missed the mark.
Guess it's back to the drawing board.
I still feel there is a story to be told here, and I hope someone can get to the 93 pg. mark.
Thanks again. All criticism is welcomed and taken onboard.
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Dreamscale |
Posted: June 14th, 2016, 10:24am |
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Warren, SS isn't like it used to be, in that it's rare that people read entire features these days - especially from a "new" writer that they don't know. The other problem is that, as I said, this concept is not remotely fresh or new.
As for the grammar nut, I'm with ya there. I'll show you a few examples and give you a few suggestions that may help.
Page 2 - "A KNOCK on the bedroom door and it immediately swings open. Matt’s mother HEATHER, 45, stands in the doorway." -
First of all, you need a comma between "mother" and "Heather". Secondly, the passage is awkwardly written. Third, if Matt's mother isn't in the script again and no one addresses her as Heather, you probably don't even want to name her.
Page 3 - "Heather and Matt’s friends DOUG, 18, a tall muscular guy covered in tatoos with a cigarette perched behind his ear and TOM, 17, a well presented, clean cut young man wait for Angie and Matt," -
First, you need commas between "friends" and "DOUG", "tall" and "muscular", and I'd put one between "man" and "wait". Secondly, again, this entire passage is awkwardly written and phrased. Fourth, "tatoos" and "clean cut" are misspelled. But look at the passage a bit deeper - In most civilizations, we can assume that Doug and Tom are both males, so no need to use "man" or "young man" in the description. Also, no reason whatsoever to use "Heather and Matt's friends" or "wait for Angie and Matt" - and why are they Heather's friends? Typo, I assume. Bottom line, you can easily trim this 4 line description passage into a much stronger 2 line passage.
Page 4 - "Matt punches Doug in the arm. Matt waves and everyone gets in. Heather waves as the car pulls away." -
This is a pretty good example of what I was referring to as "stale writing" and poorly broken up passages. Look at this passage and read it over several times. First, the stale part - Matt does this. Matt does that. Heather does this. See what I'm saying? Dull and almost as if you're just writing a list of what's happening. Now, the passage part - it starts out with the kids outside the car. Next line, Matt waves and they all get in the car. Finally, we go to a completely different shot, of Heather on the front porch, waving as the car is now pulling away. It's not even remotely in real time, as written, and when that's the case, you have to use new passages.
Page 5 - "All taken care of my very sceptical friend." -
Whenever someone uses someone else's name (or anything that is being used as a name) in dialogue, you have to set it off with a comma(s). So, you need a comma between "of" and "my". This occurs many times in your script. Also, obviously, "sceptical" is spelled wrong.
Sometimes it's little things that keep repeating themselves in scripts that stand out. Don't repeat your Slugline in the passage that follows. Don't add in or repeat unnecessary descriptors in lines. You can pretty much throw out every single "and" and replace them with a comma, as it reads faster/better, and also saves a few spaces, sometimes saving an entire line and doing away with an orphan.
One more example to show what I mean about the "and thing" - Page 5 -
"Tom opens the glove compartment and takes out three drivers licences. He hands one to Matt and one to Angie. He keeps one for himself."
Rewritten as - "Tom opens the glove compartment, takes out three Driver's licenses. He hands one to Matt, one to Angie, and keeps one for himself."
You save an entire line here by doing this. Note the correction to "Driver's licenses" also. Finally, note that I actually added an "and" and replaced "He", and added the last part to the other sentence, as you need to understand that when peeps read, every time you have a full stop (period), it actually takes a split second longer - commas keep the thought going and you should use them whenever you can.
Hope this helps, bro. Now, as I recommended earlier, jump in and read and comment on current participating members' scripts and they will most likely return the favor. |
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Posted: June 14th, 2016, 10:46am |
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Quoted from Dreamscale "Tom opens the glove compartment and takes out three drivers licences. He hands one to Matt and one to Angie. He keeps one for himself."
Rewritten as - "Tom opens the glove compartment, takes out three Driver's licenses. He hands one to Matt, one to Angie, and keeps one for himself."
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Tom opens the glove compartment, retrieves three Driver's licenses, hands one to Matt, Angie, and keeps one for himself." |
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Dreamscale |
Posted: June 14th, 2016, 11:58am |
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Yep...that works as well. |
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Warren |
Posted: June 16th, 2016, 11:46pm |
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Of The Ancients A man who has taught his mind to misbehave
LocationSydney, Australia Posts3897 Posts Per Day 1.36 |
Thanks for the clarification, Dreamscale and Dustin.
Will get out the red pen and have another few reads of this one.
As far as reading and commenting on current participating members scripts. Is there anything you would like me to have a look at?
I do see the same profiles everywhere but am uncertain how to narrow down a search for their most recent scripts.
SS does seem like it can be a bit of a dumping ground. |
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Warren |
Posted: June 20th, 2016, 6:06am |
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I will be submitting a new and hopefully improved version of this soon so please don't waste your valuable time reading this. Will let you know when it's up for anyone that is interested in giving it another pass.
Thanks. |
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Posted: June 24th, 2016, 4:32am |
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Hey man, the title got me as I live on the Gold Coast, haha.
Send me a pm when you have the revised draft ready. I'm quite keen for a read.
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Warren |
Posted: June 24th, 2016, 6:29am |
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Excellent, will do. Just putting the final touches on it. Won't be long.
Anything you want me to have a look at in the meantime? |
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Posted: June 24th, 2016, 9:45pm |
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Hi Warren,
Very keen to read this as an Aussie who has done schoolies week at Surfers.
I read to page 20.
I really like the concept despite it being done before as I love these types of films. However Doug, Tom, etc are just too clichéd. Alpha male, virgin, romantic couple... they're too familiar for an already clichéd story.
Nothing wrong with writing something that's been done to death, but try and create just a little more variety and originality in the central characters.
Hope this helps mate.
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Warren |
Posted: June 25th, 2016, 12:31am |
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Thanks for the read, Tim.
Does need a bit of work. Lots of cliches in this for sure. I think now that I have the full story on paper, and a base to work from, hopefully I'll be able to pull something togeather.
As previously mentioned, I'm currently working on an edit. Will let everyone know when it's done and maybe it will be a better read.
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Posted: June 27th, 2016, 4:27am |
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Send me the edited version when you're done Wazza. |
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Warren |
Posted: June 27th, 2016, 6:16pm |
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Haven’t forgotten. I’ve done most of the editing.
Problem now being, I've looked at it so much that I just don't know what else to do. I know something is not quite right with the story but I'm stuck.
I’m not talking about how overly cliché' it is as I purposefully wrote it that way. I don’t believe we have an Aussie horror like this so in a sense it's different.
Give me a bit longer to figure it out, or I will send it as is, and maybe you can see or add something I can’t.
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Dreamscale |
Posted: June 28th, 2016, 10:28am |
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Send it to me, Warren...I'll give it another shot. |
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Warren |
Posted: June 28th, 2016, 5:19pm |
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Just going to spend one more weekend with it and it will be on it's way.
Thank you. |
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Posted: September 21st, 2016, 2:11am |
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From seeing the title, I didn't think it would be a horror script, until I read the log line. Not being Australian, I looked up the name and found out what it meant. But I think you should have chose a different title. One that draws attention. That's just my opinion.
The characters needed work. I really didn't like any of them that much when they showed up. Doug was really annoying. Matt and Angie (obvious final girl) were bland, but they did get better. I did like Tom later on. I was hoping he would have lived. Steve and Joanne suddenly show up, then get killed off quick. I didn't care for them that much.
And you rushed things. The people being infected started too soon. I think you should have let us get to know the group more before things started going crazy. Maybe add some other characters. Whatever happened to the brunette girl and the blonde girl? I thought we would be seeing them again.
The whole story was cliche, but you already knew that. But I like the plot. It really reminded of this zombie video game called Dead Island which also takes place somewhere near Australia at a hotel.
The ending to your script was awesome. Best part. It makes up for the other predictable things that happened earlier. But I did not expect Angie to just get killed right there. That shocked me. I thought she would have put up a fight and then take the car driving off.
Not many horror movies or scripts have dark ending like this. That was nice. I thought that was a good twist on the typical horror movie ending where the survivor is picked up by someone in their car and is drove off to safety.
Poor Angie though.
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Warren |
Posted: September 21st, 2016, 2:30am |
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Hey, Jason.
Thanks so much for the read.
This was my first script ever so there are some definite issues.
It's currently and has been undergoing a rewrite for some time.
Really appreciate your thoughts even though I know a lot of it already (cliche, relatively one dimensional characters, I know they need real work) and a fair bit of it hasn't changed in the rewrite. I think mainly because I'm losing steam as far as this script goes.
One day I'll get it finished.
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Posted: September 21st, 2016, 12:29pm |
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Being your first script, it was good.
Well I hope you get it finished one day, because I'd love to read it.
I did post a horror script here. It's called Sanguinary. You can read it if you want to.
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Optioned. |
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Posted: June 14th, 2019, 12:48pm |
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Holy Shiz Warren! That's exciting.
Well done |
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Posted: June 14th, 2019, 12:59pm |
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Congrats, hope it moves forward! Sounds from the log like an intriguing story. |
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Whoa, more good news... You're on fire, Warren!
Hope this one gets to the finish line. Well done, bravo! |
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Warren |
Posted: June 14th, 2019, 5:14pm |
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Thanks, all.
Features just seem like an impossible thing to get made, but the filmmaker is definitely enthusiastic so I guess that's a start. He lives a few suburbs away from Surfers Paradise so that's handy. I'm also happy with the compensation for the script, so no issues there.
The script that was removed was the first thing I ever wrote, I never did get the 'final' draft on to SS, but it looks quite different to what was posted. It's also had a logline change, not that it really matters.
Will keep you posted if anything ever comes if it. |
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Posted: June 14th, 2019, 5:25pm |
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Fingers crossed for you that this gets made. Even so, an option is still a bloody big achievement
Out of interest, how did he find the script? |
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Posted: June 14th, 2019, 5:30pm |
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Fingers crossed for you that this gets made. Even so, an option is still a bloody big achievement
Out of interest, how did he find the script? |
Cheers. He contacted me through my website, so I'm not entirely sure. The link is only in two places, here and on SR. |
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Posted: June 14th, 2019, 5:35pm |
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Hope something comes out of this. Good job. May my positive energy drift to your location and will this feature into existence |
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Posted: June 14th, 2019, 6:10pm |
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Ooh! Optioned by Aussies? Congrats Warren |
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Ooh! Optioned by Aussies? Congrats Warren |
Actually optioned by an American living on the GC. |
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Posted: June 14th, 2019, 6:15pm |
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Hope something comes out of this. Good job. May my positive energy drift to your location and will this feature into existence |
Thanks All positive energy freely accepted. |
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Congratulations Warren that's great! |
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Posted: August 2nd, 2019, 9:08pm |
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Thanks, seems to be heading in the right direction, but who knows with these things. |
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Posted: October 21st, 2019, 6:20pm |
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This popped up as "in pre-production" on my IMDb. I'll be waiting and watching with interest.
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So the option on this ran out... and he bought it It's my first feature sale that has actually gone through, the money is in my account and it's a no take-backs situation. Never thought this would actually ever happen but there you go. The filmmaker is highly motivated and seem extremely determined to make this happen. Even wants me to fly up to the Gold Coast when it films and thinks it would be fun to have me all zombiefied up and thrown in as an extra March is shaping up to be a hell of a month. |
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I'd like to point out that one CAN go to this website and order a T-shirt. Just sayin'. We should all be wearing the t-shirt. |
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Nicely done, Warren! Congrats |
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Posted: March 3rd, 2020, 4:45am |
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Yes, Warren!!! First feature ever written sold, not a bad start lol. |
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Grandma Bear |
Posted: March 3rd, 2020, 6:30am |
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LocationThe Swamp... Posts7961 Posts Per Day 1.36 |
How awesome is that? And timely with the virus thing. Always predicted good things for your writing. And I like being right. |
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Posted: March 3rd, 2020, 7:02am |
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Yep, pretty awesome indeed! Funny, years ago a friend of mine wrote and filmed his own version of a zombie themed Schoolies movie with the title of Toolies: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2626080/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_15I remember reading his script and questioning him about the continuing popularity of zombies. This was well before World War Z, and the numerous films released before and after that. He's in full time employment in LA now btw. More fool, me. Original takes prevail it seems, and like I said previously that poster looks top class. All the best with this, Warren. |
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Posted: March 3rd, 2020, 7:06am |
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Good man, Warren. Congrats! And yeah, very topical so its got that on its side. I foresee some rather ethically dubious Coronavirus marketing tie-ins. Or, failing that, a slight rewrite to namedrop the big C in somewhere. (To be included in the trailer of course) |
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Posted: March 3rd, 2020, 4:50pm |
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Of The Ancients A man who has taught his mind to misbehave
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Thank you, everyone. And thanks for the kind words.
I'll let you know of any developments as they happen. |
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Posted: March 3rd, 2020, 6:37pm |
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Congrats!
Man, you're killing it right now. |
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Posted: March 3rd, 2020, 6:43pm |
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Oh I didn’t know you had a feature posted here. And sold already, wow! Congrats!! Will be waiting for it’s release! |
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Warren |
Posted: March 3rd, 2020, 7:45pm |
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Of The Ancients A man who has taught his mind to misbehave
LocationSydney, Australia Posts3897 Posts Per Day 1.36 |
Congrats!
Man, you're killing it right now. |
March is turning into a hell of a month. The sale, the comic will be 100% complete, Marieke is meant to film this weekend, and Imagine Impact. I'm feeling good. Paul's having a hell of a run as well. SS members are killing it everywhere. |
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Warren |
Posted: March 3rd, 2020, 7:47pm |
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Of The Ancients A man who has taught his mind to misbehave
LocationSydney, Australia Posts3897 Posts Per Day 1.36 |
Oh I didn’t know you had a feature posted here. And sold already, wow! Congrats!! Will be waiting for it’s release! |
It was the first script I ever wrote, and the first thing I ever posted on SS in 2016 when I first joined. So definitely not "already" I guess selling it is one small part in the process, who knows if anything will actually come of it. Still glad to get a feature sale under my belt, it just feels like another tick in the box. |
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Posted: March 4th, 2020, 7:53pm |
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That's awesome news....you should definitely get zombied up...how cool is that!! |
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