Quoted from Dreamscale Turn them all in under different names...Don will never know, as I'm sure he's not following along.  LOL!!!

Don sees all.

Never mistake his silence for inattentiveness.

Quoted from Don One entry per person/team (unless you think you can slip another one by me.)

I would just add that if you try, submit your strongest script first.  Anything else I'll hold until after the owc is over and then post.  

Don

Quoted from bert Don sees all. Never mistake his silence for inattentiveness.

No...I was completely joking, assuming The Don would see and respond.

Bad news for me, but it's based on great news for me.

I won't be able to enter this OWC and I'm totally bummed, but I just closed on a new house an will be moving in Friday.

I'm out!  I'll read and provide much praise as always, though.

Good luck to everyone taking part.

I was halfway through a feature about a Mummy, ISIS, and Dr. Phibes, but cheers, Don.  

Unreal. Now I have to wait and see if anyone has written anything better. The cheek!

Anyway, good luck to everyone.

I'm still in, probably not as good as I at first hoped, but I have something.

Have mine pretty much mapped out in my head. Gonna get it written tonight and have tomorrow and Friday to iron it out.

Best of luck to everyone taking part.

I'm gonna try to get my first draft finished tonight. I have a killer head cold so this may be the best thing I've ever written or something so ilegible people think it's written in Klingon.

I'm almost done, though think the period one I started, until rules were pointed out, was better

Quoted from Scar Tissue Films Bad news about that no multiple entries thing. I lied before, I've actually already written three! Really pleased with all of them, as well. Oh, well.

always impressed when i hear that folk have written more than one.  my brain doesn't work that way, it locks on to one and stays there.

anyway,i have a draft done so ill be in

Quoted from Scar Tissue Films Bad news about that no multiple entries thing. I lied before, I've actually already written three! Really pleased with all of them, as well. Oh, well.

Three, what? three? How could you come up with more than one? I have half of an idea which I'm trying to stretch into an idea and it wouldn't listen...

Anyway, I wrote almost a page yesterday. Trying to come up with another five. I'm hoping for two more pages today.

Sometimes you get a lot of ideas, sometimes you get none.

I used to be a very, very slow writer. I would prevaricate over everything, trying to torture ideas into behaving.

Writing was like getting blood from a stone.

I think I often tried to do too much with shorts as well. Trying to squeeze too much story into too few pages.

I find now that if I just start writing on paper about pretty much anything, then an idea will come. The story will take a shape. Sometimes a very simple one, sometimes a bit more complex.

I could write a story about each and every one of the characters from past films, tbh. What fears do they represent? From a male point of view, or a female point of view? Who would be most scared of them? Or most attracted to them? Why? What aspect of them would most scare me as an individual? What do they say about society, or humanity?

Ask enough questions and there will always be a story, somewhere.

For instance: Dracula.

The original novel was about fears that affected the future of Victorian Britain. Fears of immigration and the dangers foreigners would bring to England. About awakening female sexuality and how it would affect the social order. Fears about the corruption of the human soul and the subverting of the Spirit to the Flesh.

Instantly you've got some ideas: Who would be most afraid of immigration?..some Nationalist? Perhaps he believes there's something not quite right about the flood of refugees coming into the country...maybe the story has modern parallels with the fear of ISIS terrorists entering the country amidst Syrian refugees. Or you've got a guy terrified about Sex who starts to see all women as Vampires, just waiting to suck his energy. Maybe it's real,maybe it isn't.

Pick a villain, work out what he/she is all about, and there will be a endless supply of possible stories. Obviously, some better than others.

Sorry for the writing 101, just thinking out loud!

Rick

I went out to my fish pond on Saturday morning after the OWC announcement, and there was blood spatter all over the deck. I don't know what happened there, but something definitely got eaten there during the night. Took me about 4 seconds to see all kinds of scenarios involving the creature from the black lagoon. Sometimes, ideas just appear and demand that you write something.  

Quoted from Grandma Bear I went out to my fish pond on Saturday morning after the OWC announcement, and there was blood spatter all over the deck. I don't know what happened there, but something definitely got eaten there during the night. Took me about 4 seconds to see all kinds of scenarios involving the creature from the black lagoon. Sometimes, ideas just appear and demand that you write something.

After seeing all that blood, I wouldn't have hung around for 4 seconds. It could so easily have been right behind you.

Quoted from DustinBowcot After seeing all that blood, I wouldn't have hung around for 4 seconds. It could so easily have been right behind you.

Yup, I'm right with you on that one.

I think if I left the house to find a whole lot of blood my pulse would not be normal

Good luck to everyone! A challenging one but hopefully I'll have a chance. Can't wait to read some of these.