The July, 2008 One Week Challenge scripts.  Genre: Drama; Theme: "The guys at the post office are never gonna believe this."

The Red Eye by Alan Birch - Short, Drama - 0 - pdf, format

Registered Delivery by Douglas Fir - Short, Drama - A mail man has to deliver a package to a Doctor with radiation poisoning. On his route he loses track of the package before he encounters the terrorists who want it. The race is on to find the package and keep it from the terrorists. - pdf, format

The Family Name by Sitka Spruce - Short, Drama - An elderly collator pursues a coincidence to his past life. - pdf, format

Postal by Montezuma Cypress  - Short, Drama - When threatened by an unknown organization, a postal worker must take matters into his own hands to protect himself. - pdf, format

All eyes on her by Deodar Cedar - Short, Drama - Lucy has big plans for her future, but somebody has already made bigger plans for her present. - pdf, format

Delivery by Tamarack Larch - Short, Drama - A mailman on his regular run finds himself in a most irregular and unsettling situation.  - rtf, format

The Broken Locker by Red Spruce - Short, Drama - A broken locker in a post office leads to something which no one in the post office ever could believe. - pdf, format

A Guy Named Yuley by Lost Mind - Short, Drama - A phobic postman questions the validity of a monster and a spiritual order called The Brotherhood.  As he turns his life over to chance, he discovers his fear is legitimate and The Brotherhood is real. - pdf, format

Postman Pete by Prickly Ash - Short, Drama - George is sick and tired of being Postman Pete and everyone else is sick and tired of Postman Pete being George.  - rtf, format

Return Service Requested by Freeman Maple - Short, Drama - When a mailman named Hank finds a package sent from the future, he must struggle with his own fear of failure and the wishes of his fellow postal workers to decide what to do with the package. - doc, format

The Ballad of Uncle Sam: An Anarchist’s Medley by Pignut Hickory - Short, Drama - Grown weary to the established order of society, a man introduces a motivating idea of his very own in perilous ways. - pdf, format

Love Letters by Persian Walnut - Short, Drama - Things begin to change for the worst when a Postman starts to receive love letters. - pdf, format

I Love You, Elvira Gulch by Amur Cork-tree - Short, Drama - A thug dresses in drag to retrieve a package from the post office but the post office clerk wants to give him much more than he bargined for. - pdf, format

The Package by Simon Poplar - Short, Drama - A man must retrieve a package to save his family. - pdf, format

Mercy by Garry Oak - Short, Drama - Bad things come in small packages. A young runaway gets into trouble at a roadside diner. - pdf, format

Sneak Peek by Scott Pine - Short, Drama - Sneak Peek is about Pete, an express delivery postman, who can't believe his luck when an attractive woman invites him into her home. However, what seems like an opportunity to get a bit of slap and tickle quickly turns into a life and death situation, as Pete finds himself trapped in the middle of an underworld dispute. - pdf, format

The Stolen Santa by Wych Elm - Short, Drama - 30 years ago a tragedy ripped one mans life apart, now he is looking for answers and thinks he has found the man who might have them. Sometimes the truth is better not known. - pdf, format

Don, are you splitting the scripts up like last time?  Or is this it?


Phil

Some scripts up here i can't find on page 1.

17  scripts were submitted.

Quoted from dogglebe Don, are you splitting the scripts up like last time?  Or is this it? Phil

This is it.  Seventeen submission.

Quoted from BryMo Some scripts up here i can't find on page 1.

Not sure what you mean, here.  Are some scripts not loading up?

Don

The script Postal is only coming up as a title page followed by fourteen blank pages on my computer, which is weird because all the other scripts I've looked at seem okay and Pia said that Postal is fine on her computer.

I have had this happen a few times at MoviePoet. Can't remember if anyone ever figured out why this happens, but if i use a different pc then it works. I don't know if it has anything to do with it being saved in an older version of Adobe pdf or what, but I know what you mean. Very frustrating.

Quoted from Chris Reid The script Postal is only coming up as a title page followed by fourteen blank pages on my computer, which is weird because all the other scripts I've looked at seem okay and Pia said that Postal is fine on her computer.

Works for me.  Try to right click and use save as when you hit

http://www.simplyscripts.net/cgi-bin/Blah/Blah.pl?m-1217006209/

Don

Damn it!  Just wrote my first review and accidentally deleted it before posting.  Pure genius collection of constructive criticism all laid to waste.  Oh well... must be a sign to quit for the night.

By the way, newcomer to the contest but think it's a great little exercise.  Anything that gets you writing is a good thing.  Forces the mind out of hibernation and into action.  Plus, reviewing others work is helpful, not just for them but when you are able to see the flaws in someone else's writing, it makes you more conscious of it in your own work.

Anyway, I have read some entries and promise to give some reviews tomorrow.

Peace.  

Hello Moroh,

You are so right (write), anything that gets you writing is a good thing.

The OWC always produces things that never would have been otherwise. That's the beauty of it. And besides that, we can connect with "the underneath" of the stories. We get to get a sense of where the writer is coming from. There's just something special about it. Magic I guess.

Pia mentioned she loved the pressure and pounded out something quickly. This is the kind of magic that can happen. Others can work like crazy for an entire week, but that is magic too. They come up with things that... well, they wonder where it all comes from.

People go through all kinds of ups and downs, but the important thing is that they are going through the process. Go through the process enough times and something good has got to come of it. (Along with the bad that is.)

I'm with you in the: "Totally sucks when something gets deleted by an invisible force!"

We live and learn. Learn to copy and past a lot into notepad. ...and then wind up with this pile of &!#$!! that needs to be sorted.

Love and Light,

Sandra

Yep. Good tip from Sandra. Write your review in NotePad (or whatever little text editor you use), then copy and past into the little Simply Scripts review Box...That way your genius (and your valuable opinions) aren't scattered to the dark and scary nether realms of ...well, you get the idea...

Hey Don

Are you going to eventually designate a thumbs up on scripts whose author has critiqued at least 1/3 of the submissions.  I think that was a really good idea and really helped weed out who was trying to participate for the group and who was just saying "look at me."

Quoted from Souter Fell Hey Don Are you going to eventually designate a thumbs up on scripts whose author has critiqued at least 1/3 of the submissions.  I think that was a really good idea and really helped weed out who was trying to participate for the group and who was just saying "look at me."

I understand what you’re saying - and why you’re saying it - but isn’t this just basically trying to publicly humiliate the people who don’t participate? We can all plainly see who participates and who doesn’t.

The way I see it, it’s just an unavoidable design flaw with anonymous challenges. It’s something we have to tolerate to some degree. As long as people submit work anonymously, there are going to be those people who take advantage of the situation.

It’s the same thing every time. Some people submit and participate. And then there are people we’ve never heard of before who submit, get their work read and reviewed, and disappear into the ether. But then there are also usually people - such as myself this go around - who read and review some scripts without having one entered and it sort of makes up the difference a little.

Then you have some people (Bert springs to mind) who wait until the names are released to read any so they can avoid reading and reviewing non participatory writers. Writers who don’t care enough to participate probably aren’t going to care about any measures we take to call them to account.

Just some thoughts.


Breanne

The way I see it, I know who participates on this board and who doesn't and I really don't care if some people write and don't critique. I'm not losing anything by it.

I work at critiquing because that's part of the business and I spend time on scripts based upon what I see as the effort of the writer. Now of course this varies from script to script but I can usually tell the difference between careless copy and copy that is simply "green".

If there exist prodigies on here that are able to develop their skills without working critiques, well then more power to them. If I am only on the reading and critiquing end, then I can only stand to benefit by reading and studying their masterpieces.

On the other hand, I lose nothing by critiquing the poor shmuck who continues to write work that never seems to improve because they don't invest the time to the work.

The only way to work is to work. If people think they are getting away with something by critiquing as little as possible, they are to be pitied not condemned.

Sandra

I mentioned this before but I'll mention it again. Do you guys there should be spoiler warnings with people's reviews? I've seen some shocking spoilers in some of the reviews, some that have totally given away the ending, no less, yet, no spoiler warnings.