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I didn’t succeed with this challenge, but it’s good to see that it has gone well.
The main reason I didn’t find the time to enter was that I was working on a feature version of my entry into the last OWC. Today I completed polishing up my first draft of a feature script for “Dumb Animals”.
There’s no way I’d have written this if it wasn’t for the OWC, so thanks to Don and everyone else here.
A few pisstakes and whatnot aside, I think I'm done. I noticed today I had missed batch 6 entirely, so if any one else feels gyped PM me and I'll run over your OWC. If it still survives I'll run over it again!
Guh-DUNK! Guh-DUNK!
My God. 45 of 'em, counting the p!ssers.
At this rate, next year's should have an eight page maximum.
I need to finish up a few but largely I'm done. I was impressed with most of the entries, though. I couldn't believe the level of quality some of these scripts were written with in a week. I wish we'd have more of these OWC's because I'd participate in everyone. It was a great way for me to get back in the game since I've got much more time to devote to writing during the winter months I'm ready to have a go at this again.
Got all of them read from the active writers. At least I think. If I missed you then let me know. There were a couple I didn't get to because it didn't look like the author was around so I decided to stop there. Overall these were enjoyable. Probably one of the more well rounded challenges in terms of quality. Maybe the removal of anonymity can be attributed to that?
The removal of anonymity definitely helped. The last OWC was awful! Almost half of the scripts were pissers.
FEATURE:
Memwipe - Sci-Fi, Action, Thriller (114 pages) - In a world where memories can be erased by request, a Memory Erasing Specialist desperately searches for the culprit when his wife becomes a target for erasure -- with his former colleagues hot on his trail.
We've all gotta write a script based on whatever is decided within limits.
If there are strict limits on things then it tends to get way more interesting.
Tobacco advertising in England in the 1980s was a prime example. As they couldn't show the actual pack or someone smoking they had to get inventive. Some of the Silk Cut and Benson & Hedges ads bordered on genius. And I hate adverts but even I'll credit them with that.
If you wanna be a pro writer you have to be able to write whatever is wanted by the producers. Otherwise they'll hire someone else. Then you're back in the dole queue while the replacement will be in the credits with their work on the small or, if lucky, the big screen.
The thing very successful writers and nobodies like me have in common is this: we can both write whatever we want.
The successful pro however earns kudos and millions, while I earn enough to get drunk again. Sometimes I have to get the credit card out too.
I read only about 6 or so of these. Some I didn't comment on. Not because I didn't want to, but rather because I read them on something I couldn't type up a review on. Balt and Greg's come to mind. Of the ones I did read, I thought they were all pretty good. I can see though that it might get boring to read all of them since they might be quite similar given the assignment...
I think all of the entries are contemporary horror. When was wheelchair invented? 'Cause it might add a new twist if the story is set back in the days or in the future.
FEATURE:
Memwipe - Sci-Fi, Action, Thriller (114 pages) - In a world where memories can be erased by request, a Memory Erasing Specialist desperately searches for the culprit when his wife becomes a target for erasure -- with his former colleagues hot on his trail.
It was invented around the sixth century. Although then they probably resembled carts more than modern wheelchairs. I imagine The Ride was also rougher.
Wooden wheels. Mr. Michelin and Dunlop were just glints in their great great etc great grandfather's eyes.
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