Quoted from Reef Dreamer In accordance with this thread's aims.... My script The Ultimate Weapon has made the quarter finals of Fresh Voices. It crashed out of Shore scripts in the quarters, so time will tell whether the revised version moves on. Anyone else in there? Cheers

Very cool

Congrats Bill, best of luck.

Quoted from DustinBowcot Marnie... in regards to your resume. It's fine to embellish things a little. With the QF scripts, it's perfectly fine to simply call them 'finalists'. At least, that's what I'd do. Nobody really cares anyway.

I guess it depends on what you're after. If you're really just looking to get your screenplay produced, you're right. Who cares. But I'm more interested in writing gigs than getting my work produced, so I think it might be beneficial for me to have some higher placings in the bigger contests. It's a long shot though. We've all discussed how subjective the contest route is. I'm probably better off playing the lottery.    

I mean that nobody cares exactly how highly your scripts placed (unless they were outright winners), merely mentioning 'finalists' should be enough for them to know you're a writer they can take seriously.

Also, you should consider being more interested in seeing your work produced as that will open up writing gigs. I'm in the process of giving a feature away on a free option just to enhance my credibility.

Pleased to say The Ultimate Weapon is now in the finals at Fresh Voices, top six.

It's not the biggest competition out there, probably what you would consider to be a second tier contest, but hell it's a still a global offering so nice to be there.

Fingers crossed.

For those who don't know, this originated from a One Week Challenge (OWC) script here st SS.

cheers

Hey congrats Reef, great news! Good luck with final round.

Shameless plugs ?

Great.

I put out a novel, the link is in my sig. A backer paid for the account and some advertising, got some great reviews from other Shanghai based authors, ended up selling a few hundred copies, although we charge only 3 bucks for the Kindle Version on amazon.

While we're being shameless, that's what I was supposed to do after I left Drama school, had an agent and everything ... then went travelling to get experience ... still out here 15 years later.

WOWZER Bill!!  Top 6! Woot woot!! Congrats!!!!!!

Congratulations Bill! Great stuff.

While I'm here just a quick mention.. My short "Anything For Love" was re-written, by myself, as a feature and a director I've been in contact with will be filming that later in the year.

Also, the same the director is shooting a Sci fi Web series and got me on board as a writer for that. The pilot is in production as we speak.

Looking forward to it all..

That is super - much congrats.

Quoted from IamGlenn Congratulations Bill! Great stuff. While I'm here just a quick mention.. My short "Anything For Love" was re-written, by myself, as a feature and a director I've been in contact with will be filming that later in the year. Also, the same the director is shooting a Sci fi Web series and got me on board as a writer for that. The pilot is in production as we speak. Looking forward to it all..

Thanks all, and all the best with the feature - sounds exciting

Quoted from IamGlenn While I'm here just a quick mention.. My short "Anything For Love" was re-written, by myself, as a feature and a director I've been in contact with will be filming that later in the year. Also, the same the director is shooting a Sci fi Web series and got me on board as a writer for that. The pilot is in production as we speak. Looking forward to it all..

Sounds great, good luck with those. Any spoilers on what the webseries is about? The concept of a sci-fi webseries sounds interesting.

And best of luck on the finals, Reef!

Congrats Glenn!

Thank you all. I'm very excited to see how it all pans out.

Sure DS, it's about aliens that come to earth, programming humans to use as slaves basically so they can take over the planet.

It follows 5 people that escaped during the programming stage as they try to bring down the alien organisation.

Second place for The Ultimate Weapon at fresh voices.

Close, but no cigar - still happy with that though.

Cheers