Well, I'm on again... connection went t$ts up I thought I was out  

Quoted from Grandma Bear No, you're good. The ultimate goal here is to finish a feature. The one week thing is only for those who'd like feedback on the beginning.

Thanks for the speedy reply, Pia!

Quoted from Max Nothing much wrong with them...

Cheers bro!

Gonna just upload tomorrow after a quick polish and see how it goes.

Either way, I'm getting a feature finished!!  

Quoted from Toby_E Hi all, How strict is the page-count for posting the first 10? Specifically, if I submit 11 pages instead of 10, am I going to become the outcast of the boards? The scene on the 10th page leaks over onto the 11th, and I'm really not a fan of cutting of things halfway...

That is fine.

Don

Have you ever written a script Don?

Quoted from DustinBowcot I'll read your first ten if you feel they're ready. I know we haven't always seen eye to eye but I'll be fair and positive in my comments.

I appreciate the offer, but I'll have to politely decline.  I think we're better off if we don't exchange at all during the course of the 7WC.  It would be pointless, anyway, as whatever I come up with will be the final product.  Any comments or critiques won't be taken into consideration.  I'm not writing to get produced anymore, I'm just doing it for myself/to have fun -- but I'm still using this 7WC as a goal to help me finish up a little quicker.  

EDIT:  To everyone else, I would also recommend that if mine does make it by the deadline, save it for last.  Save it for a rainy day when there's nothing else to read on SS and you're bored.  I will be reading all other submissions, though...trying to give feedback as fast as I can.

I'm going to start again I think.

I won't be posting my first ten.

Save it for a rainy day, eh? If the weather over here stays the way it is, I might as well start reading the first day.

I won't be submitting my first 10. Two reasons:

1. I'm moving in August so a lot of time this week has went towards preparations.
2. I'm not sure about the direction I'm taking. I might just twist what I have now in a different direction from the 7WC parameters and only use the deadline for finishing or take another direction, or even idea, altogether. I'll think on this and if I need some help deciding, I'd rather just use this thread. The 10 don't feel steady enough to put out there and I don't think they'd resemble what I'd have after 6 weeks.

Good luck to all, keep at it!

Quoted from dead by dawn I appreciate the offer, but I'll have to politely decline.  I think we're better off if we don't exchange at all during the course of the 7WC.  It would be pointless, anyway, as whatever I come up with will be the final product.  Any comments or critiques won't be taken into consideration.  I'm not writing to get produced anymore, I'm just doing it for myself/to have fun -- but I'm still using this 7WC as a goal to help me finish up a little quicker.

If writing stopped being fun, I'd stop doing it. I don't see how there is a separation between writing for fun and writing to get produced. They are one and the same thing to me.

Oh well, if you post it, I'll read at least the first few pages, see what's different about it. Then tell you what I think. It's not like I expect people to listen to my opinion anyway. So, it doesn't matter.

I already talked about it in the other thread with you, and you understood.  Now you don't.  It's cool, though, and I politely request that you don't read the first few pages and tell me what you think.  It's better our paths don't really cross much.

Also, I'm writing for a "different kind of fun" (it's a long story as to why, and I don't want to get into specifics about it, like I mentioned before)  Like if I wanted to stop and write a 150 page Friday the 13th fan fic and then follow it up with a 150 page Halloween fan fic, I won't feel like I'm wasting valuable time.  Or if that's all I ever did from here on out and never bothered with an original piece of work again, I wouldn't care.  I'm just having fun.  I don't give a fuck anymore about getting produced or making it big.  I don't care about sending my stuff out to contests, agents, managers, whatever.  I gave up.  

I don't care about re-writing and re-writing and re-writing until my script is "where it needs to be" so it can make it into the hands of the right people and get made.  I don't care about doing this or doing that.  I don't care about asking people on here anymore for feedback so I can re-write and re-write and re-write.  Whatever the heck I feel like doing, I'm gonna do.  If I feel like writing a script that's hardcore NC-17 with the hardest violence and sex, I'll do it.  And I won't have to worry about re-writing it, or editing it, or if it's marketable, or if it's this or that, because I'm not writing for a studio anymore, I'm writing for me.  Whatever I slap down, that's what it is.  There will be no second draft.  On to the next thing that I always wanted to write but was too busy endlessly re-writing something else.

But like I said before in another thread, that doesn't mean all of a sudden I'm gonna start writing 20 slow scenes in a row, setting up characters for 30 pages where nothing happens just because I want to do whatever I feel like.  No.  I'm still going to write scenes with purpose.  I’m still going to make shit happen.

People can ask, well, what's the point in posting your scripts here if you don't want feedback?  If you don't care about getting produced?  My answer:  because I know what it's like to have nothing to read on here and just going out of your mind with boredom.  I used to dig up old features to occupy myself.  Yeah, I would write, but I also liked to read at the same time.  I don't want some long winded review or anything.  It'll just be up for anybody who's bored.  For anyone who's read everything and wants to check out something new.  If someone wants to say in passing, "hey, I liked it, that was cool," then that's fine.  I'll even read someone's script without asking them to read mine in return.  Instead, I'll recommend a feature by somebody else -- which is something I always did, I'll just keep on doing it. haha

But yeah, that's that.  If anyone else, including Dustin, wants to carry on about why I crapped out, you can send me a PM.  

First 10, submitted! Looking forward to reading all the other entries. I am still on vacation in Italy until Tuesday, but I will do my best to read two a day (one in the morning, one in the evening), and then blitz-read all the others once I get back home.

Quoted from Don That is fine. Don

Thanks for the reply, Don. I managed to get the PDF down to the 10 page mark, after all  

Quoted from dead by dawn I already talked about it in the other thread with you, and you understood.  Now you don't.  It's cool, though, and I politely request that you don't read the first few pages and tell me what you think.  It's better our paths don't really cross much.

OK. I'll read the first couple of pages and tell you what I think.

Not sure about posting the first ten.

I think I would like to share reads when I get to the mid point. At p35 now.

But if others post the first ten I may have time to read

All the best all.

I've decided I'm out as I'd rather spend my time doing something else.

I'll still be pitching in with feedback tho.