Will we receive an email confirmation for our OWC submissions? I haven't received one, and I don't want to miss out on the action!

Yep, Don usually sends an email. He might not be up yet.

You won't miss out.

Great. Thanks!

Had a few peeps read my first draft and got enough feedback to start on a second. A second draft is a rare thing for me in a OWC.

As for what makes a good script/story; well as all things in life it is about balance. A good story is one that people enjoy, understand and remember fondly. A good script is one that can be read easily, understand and visualise clearly. Combine the two, and you have it made. A lot of writers are good at one, or the other; rarely both.

A script without dialogue isn’t easy, anyone who attempts this OWC and enters deserves a pat on the back and secret masonic handshake in my opinion. I do imagine some will down score scripts for  including unfilmables and a none dialogue script may include more unfilmables than the norm. But again just consider balance. If it’s mainly prose, then yeah it’s not a screenplay but a bit of artistic flair is good. Most produced (famous) scripts have unfilmables in them. Most notably with character descriptions.

It seems to be accepted inside the industry to have a character description which says less about what they look like and what they are wearing (which changes during production anyway) and more about what type of person they are. Similar some action is described not simply as exactly what we see on screen, but with a few words which describe the tone, mood and atmosphere of the setting far more eloquently than “The man enters the small house.”   Balance Padawans, baalAAAANCE! (Falls off Luke Skywalker’s shoulders.)

i think this OWC will throw up a big variation. And with that we should be open minded.

some will be short scenes, or contained shorts, others maybe larger templates.

since the criteria is open, i wouldn't mark one against the other - it's more a case of did the story work as written.

as well as did it have a feel of the summer/winter request - some OWC entries have drifted a long way off the criteria in the past (mine included)

Also, no dialogue can make scripts harder work for the reader, probably why it is six pages. a good idea.

it may be that readers need to slow down a touch to absorb the information which could be denser than normal.

anyway, good fun to play again

And...

Make sure it has...

That element of suspense.

That is one of the specific requirements of this particular challenge.

‘Element of suspense’

Sounds like a perfume  

Mine has one big surprise...it’s bloody written. That’s the surprise!!

Never written a short before. But when I read the rules / subject matter one just popped into my head. It's a lunch-break job but have to say - really enjoyed writing it. So I've thrown it into the mix.

Really busy at work, but I just thought of a short to write. Hopefully I can get it written after work tonight.

Done and done.  Interesting exercise - and I hate exercising in the heat (hmm - never mind, I just hate exercising).

I finally had a germ of an idea, but doesn't look like I'll have time to write it.

I don't enter a lot of these because with the one week deadline, I only really get a few hours to do the actual writing.

Food for thought, for the future, for those of us who work a lot of hours during the week - maybe announce the theme on a Monday, this way we have all week to think about it and then the weekend to write it?

Announcing on a Friday means I have to have an instant idea, and then have the bones in place by Sunday night.

AJR

I also had an idea finally, but we're running out of time, so not sure I will get to write it...but I will try.

I am still trying, but it’s been a while. Well that’s what my wife says  

I promise I’m gonna be in - time to return. Even if a little half hearted.

Seems like a few other ‘old’ timers may join in - that would be fun.

Except you Jeff, you can sod off for all the orphans crap you gave me those years ago.  

Only joking.

Just don’t miss a coma...

Remember it’s all about story...

Quoted from Reef Dreamer I am still trying, but it’s been a while. Well that’s what my wife says   I promise I’m gonna be in - time to return. Even if a little half hearted. Seems like a few other ‘old’ timers may join in - that would be fun. Except you Jeff, you can sod off for all the orphans crap you gave me those years ago.   Only joking. Just don’t miss a coma... Remember it’s all about story...

Jeff’s love life has been in a coma for years bro