Just submitted a surprisingly solid first draft. When I read that it could be any vehicle for hire (taxi, limo, Lyft, Uber, tuk-tuk, bus, etc.), the plot came to me immediately.

Plot, characters, genre, everything fell into place. All I needed was a title. All taken care of.

Next thing is to do a few minor tweaks, nothing major.

Best of luck to everyone!

Finally got an idea this morning and I've run with it. Taken me two hours to write the initial draft. I have an entry and it's something that is easy to produce so I'm quite pleased. Just a bit of spit and polish... which I'll do right up until the deadline, and then I'll submit. Good luck to everyone else in achieving the same.

That infernal timer... it's mocking me!

Idea sorted, script started, no let's see how it turns out

I have an idea too, I just don't know about one thing...

It has a special effect.  I don't think it'd cost too much cash.  I mean, low budget can mean so many things.  In Hollywood, low budget is 25M.  In a small film school like UB, low budget might mean something like 750K.  

Some might even consider low to be less then 100K.  I mean, it takes at least 2K to shoot a movie.  When I shot my movie, and that was in 92, I spent over 2K (mostly on script copying and random things like food and stuff, lifeguard etc).  

It was the most fun I ever had, shot it for my thesis, but, then sadly, life got in the way of my dreams...

I guess that the old saying is true, you can take a person away from their dreams, but, only for a short time, then they return...

Dan

Just go for it Dan, it won't be a big issue, sure others will have similar in their script...

Quoted from AnthonyCawood Just go for it Dan, it won't be a big issue, sure others will have similar in their script...

agreed. it will take peoples attention off my flying taxi  

And my dragon pulled rickshaw

I don't have an idea so it'll be pretty idealess story as I'm writing it.  just started, threw in a few characters, let them talk, lets see if something happens to them... if anything.
I know they must get stuck in that thing.

Can't say more as I pretty much gave away mine already.

By the way if you have a flying taxi - it could be pretty much a flying carpet cab. And you are stuck on it automatically if it flies off with you on it.
I'm not writing about flying carpet taxi. Mine is idealess like I said.

This is not fair. I only found out about it now. You guys should give us the option to sign up for a newsletter or something that will email us as soon as the theme is announced. Good luck everyone and thanks Mods for giving us another contest this month.

Still 4 days to go realx - get writing, doesn't even have a min page count so you can submit a micro-short...

I'm out. I've hit something of a stride on an especially difficult project that I haven't given nearly enough attention to for some time. Sometimes it's best to take a break and work on something else like the OWC, but this is unfortunately not one of those times; another script would be just yet another distraction in a sequence of many that makes it harder to get back in the long game at the end of the day.

I did however come up with a dozen or so scenarios, albeit not fully formed ideas, within the first twenty minutes of the challenge, which was fun in and of itself and rare for me when it comes to the OWC. Funny someone should make a joke about porn; I actually even considered for a second writing a porn script as a troll (the joke being that the format was all copacetic and the script could legitimately be produced as porn, as opposed to your garden variety pisstake which isn't meant to be anything). Of course, it didn't take long to think better of this. Otherwise, I was able to interpret "trapped" in a variety of ways, but didn't come up with anything that made me feel like I had to enter.

I can understand that. Hitting a stride and being on that super productive streak where pages just fly by is a rarity, least for me. Gotta use it on a feature. But maybe the stride will end and you can jump in at the last minute. Not that I'm rooting for that. Think I just jinxed it.

Quoted from James McClung I'm out. I've hit something of a stride on an especially difficult project that I haven't given nearly enough attention to for some time. Sometimes it's best to take a break and work on something else like the OWC, but this is unfortunately not one of those times; another script would be just yet another distraction in a sequence of many that makes it harder to get back in the long game at the end of the day. I did however come up with a dozen or so scenarios, albeit not fully formed ideas, within the first twenty minutes of the challenge, which was fun in and of itself and rare for me when it comes to the OWC. Funny someone should make a joke about porn; I actually even considered for a second writing a porn script as a troll (the joke being that the format was all copacetic and the script could legitimately be produced as porn, as opposed to your garden variety pisstake which isn't meant to be anything). Of course, it didn't take long to think better of this. Otherwise, I was able to interpret "trapped" in a variety of ways, but didn't come up with anything that made me feel like I had to enter.

Open theme bro so comedy in any form is good to go

I found out about this one yesterday and decided to  give it a go.
I wrote it today. I'll read over it again in a couple days, fix what I can, then submit it.

I love the OWC and all the different stories.

Cindy