Sad to hear that, Rick. Always thought of you of my main opposition. In a good way.

I watched your film again. It's still rather good. You complete barstard. Get yer act together. You got hours yet.

Those last sentences I reread to get my own act together.

Now, I need to find my trousers. They aren't where I left them, This is frankly typical.

R

Quoted from Scar Tissue Films Couldn't get a good enough script together to enter. Had three reasonable ideas but couldn't get any of them to work on the page to an acceptable standard. Tough theme. It was hard to avoid the "playing the game to survive trope whilst still coming up with something dramatic. Be interested to see what others managed to achieve.

Pretty much sums where I am.

I've had about two days to think with travelling and all, and so...not good.

I have script down which is a touch...flaccid . If I can't perk it up I won't embarrass myself, if I can I will still be embarrassed, just may be less so. I feel as if I should enter something to respect the effort of others. Wish it was better.

Quoted from AnthonyCawood When's the deadline? I've just finished a draft, but not sure I like it...

I'm the same, but I'm going to enter it anyway. I read it today and I was like, wtf was I thinking? But, no going back now. Good luck to everyone else in writing a short that's likely to get made. That's what this is all about.

For the new people... don't take it to heart if your script is annihilated. We're all writers and if the writing isn't on point, or even in a style we can get along with, we will often bail early. If I do so, I will say why and provide tips on how I think it should be done. Feel free to ignore me. Just refrain from name-calling, if you can.

Right, Red Planet submission in... now for some extra work on my OWC, see if I can get anywhere near liking it!

Looks like I'm the same position as few others. Had an idea for a gruesome game of Twister, but couldn't get it beyond the torture porn level. The villain never really took shape and now I'm pretty much out of time. In addition to that, I'll be spending most of next week in place where modern technology is but a pipe dream. No, not Detroit. It's a cabin in the mountains. I probably wouldn't have had any real time to review other scripts before going. I'll try to review a few anyhow, pro bono.

Good luck to all who get an entry in. It's a good challenge.

Quoted from LC Ooh, dear. Was he poisoned or bitten by something nasty, or what...? Good to hear he's going to be alright.

Some intestinal bacterial infection. It was very bad. The interesting thing here is that Murphy eats that Blue Buffalo dog food everyone brags about as being the best, but now I know at least a handful of people with dogs who's on that that have been violently ill to the point of having been taken to the vets. Coincidence? Maybe, but my dog's definitely NOT going to eat that ever!  :/

Woah - wait a minute.  I know you alluded to this on FB, Pia - but you know other people whose dogs ate Blue Buffalo, and got violently ill?  In that case - this WILL be Rayne's last bag!  (Really, that emergency trip last year caused him definite misery and hit our pocketbooks, too.  We just couldn't PROVE it was the BB's fault, and theorized that maybe he ate something off the sidewalk and we didn't see...)

Well, like I said, it could be coincidence, but now with Murphy too, I can't help but wondering. My daughter's spaniel/chihuahua mutt got sick and taken to the hospital last fall. They ran all kinds of tests on him. First they said he had some type of colitis, then bacterial infection. There were also a couple of people at the barn that had the same thing happen. Who knows why this happened. All I know is that all of them ended up spending anywhere from 500 - 1,500 bucks and they all ate Blue Buffalo...

Oh God.  I'll make that crystal clear with Phil - and we'll have to dive into that other brand you recommended for the next purchase...  Better safe than sorry - thanks for the heads up! :/

I've submitted mine. Had a pretty limited time to write it, glad I got something in.

So there's my excuse  

Best of luck to everyone.

Quoted from IamGlenn So there's my excuse...

I wrote mine wearing an eye patch and with one arm tied behind my back.

My excuse will be that it's Friday and five o'clock is only 3 hours and forty-five minutes away.  

Quoted from DustinBowcot I wrote mine wearing an eye patch and with one arm tied behind my back.

I was born with one eye and one arm. That's no excuse.

Quoted from LC Sean, don't know if I'm in or out yet. Creative thinking has been taking a back seat to proper 'work' unfortunately. I'm a 'maybe' if I can get my act together within 24 hours. Will still read some either way. Kham: I'd love to read a 'beautiful' story - those are usually few and far between in OWCs - plus you've intrigued me so I hope you get it together. Also: Don, where is the countdown clock?   It appears to have gone AWOL again... P.S. Speaking of beautiful - Tree Of Life was, very, but it also put me to sleep.

Ugh, tough day today and I'm in no mood - my daughter had this big music exam and she almost failed it. Well, got a B and to her it's a total failure. But she was getting ready for it for really long time - 5 months. Nerves got the best of her I guess.

anyway, I don't have much written, I mapped the story in my head, the ending is clear now but I'm in no mood to write. Besides it's past 10 here in Baku and I'm sleepy.

Thanks for the push guys and too bad I posponed writing to the last day. I shouldn't have - I don't write at all these days.

Too bad, as I just loved the theme. And it's open to all genres... too bad. I'll read though as many as I can because of the theme - curious to read about all these games.