Theme: Cursed Noun!*

It's Halloween and a cursed noun* has been activated. Your scrappy protag(s) have until midnight to save everyone. Will they succeed?

Genre: Halloween Horror (Thriller, Suspense, Comedy, etc) Rating: Adult, YA, Family
*A noun is a person, place or thing.

Scripts due to simplyScripts.com/owc on Friday October 21st at midnight edt

The Deets:
Write a properly formatted 10 page or less script on the theme provide.
It's an anonymous challenge. Do not put your name on the script. Provide a pseudonym on the title page as well as "copyright (c) 2022".
Each writer will be assigned between 5 to 10 scripts they must read (at a minimum) and vote on for "Writers' Choice". Writers are encouraged to read more and vote on more. Giving feedback to other writers on the discussion board is highly encouraged!
Schedule:

10/21/22 - midnight edt - scripts due

10/22/22 - midnight scripts posted for reading and reviewing

10/29/22 - Writers' Choices ballots due.

10/29/22 - guess who wrote what.

10/30/22 - midnight Who Wrote What and Writers' Choice announced

1st Draft finished!!!  

Thanks Don

PS  By Draft I mean my Guinness

Good one, Don. Thanks!

Awesome! Can someone tell me if my interpretation of the theme/guidelines is correct?

So basically the premise needs to be - "[protagonist/s] in a race against the clock before midnight to stop [scary thing]". Right?

Or do I need to be more literal - does there need to be an actual curse, or a wordplay with noun? Am I overinterpreting it?

Quoted from AlsoBen Awesome! Can someone tell me if my interpretation of the theme/guidelines is correct? So basically the premise needs to be - "[protagonist/s] in a race against the clock before midnight to stop [scary thing]". Right? Or do I need to be more literal - does there need to be an actual curse, or a wordplay with noun? Am I overinterpreting it?

This is a valid interpretation of the theme.

- Don

So a cursed noun could be the word "noun", and any time someone says the world "noun" on this thread, everyone will start to second guess every idea they have about how to interpret the word "noun" and then their heads will explode?

Am I reading this right?

Terrific idea!

Drag me to Hell was a great fun Horror movie.

I love that Don gave the definition of a Noun to a bunch of writers.  

That said, Jordan might be onto something.

Quoted from Nomad So a cursed noun could be the word "noun", and any time someone says the world "noun" on this thread, everyone will start to second guess every idea they have about how to interpret the word "noun" and then their heads will explode? Am I reading this right?

This is a valid interpretation of the cursed noun.

- Steve

Nice!

And am I right in thinking that the protags don't have to be the one(s) who activate the curse, just the ones to thwart it?

I think I got confused because...it could really ONLY be a noun, right?

Quoted from AlsoBen I think I got confused because...it could really ONLY be a noun, right?

I get you.

Quoted from Don Friday October 21th

Have a lisp there, Don?

Should be a lot of variety to this one.

Sean

Quoted from LC I love that Don gave the definition of a Noun to a bunch of writers.

That was most definitely for me.   And I'm very grateful!  

Oh... nice. I think I have an idea.
And I finally got my Final Draft back. Now it's just 10 new pages of some text between me and October 21st

I wanted to ask what's YA - and the first thought was short for yes, you know, like Swedish like to say "ya,ya".
But I googled and it's Young Adult. I'm ready to write now.

So is this like the chaos that ensues when King Arthur keeps saying the word "it" to the Knights who say "Ni?"