I'm in a similar position to Glenn. Got 35 pages done in a pretty short period of time but then another commitment came up   and it continues to suck up a lot of my time and leaves me exhausted as well.  

It will be a sweet miracle if I can get enough quiet time to get 70 odd pages done in two weeks - not to mention if it's decent enough to post. I'm a slow writer at the best of times. Very annoying, but I'll keep at it.

I've just arrived at an execution I'm pleased with after rewriting the beginning. I still have the very end scene to write and plenty of tweaks. Should be a nice and tight story for people to read by the submission date though.

I'm very sorry to hear this guys.

Dustin, looking forward to reading yours!

I've read Bill's and I was impressed with what he wrote in just two weeks.

Toby, looking forward to read yours too. I liked the beginning of it.

If anyone is up for it when you finish, I have one to trade with. It fits this challenge, except for I changed the McGuffin to diamonds.  

Quoted from Grandma Bear If anyone is up for it when you finish, I have one to trade with. It fits this challenge, except for I changed the McGuffin to diamonds.

Why can't the diamonds act as a McGuffin, Pia?

Quoted from Grandma Bear I'm very sorry to hear this guys. Dustin, looking forward to reading yours! I've read Bill's and I was impressed with what he wrote in just two weeks. Toby, looking forward to read yours too. I liked the beginning of it. If anyone is up for it when you finish, I have one to trade with. It fits this challenge, except for I changed the McGuffin to diamonds.

If you want a read, fire it across, only fair after your read of mine

Toby, I guess they could be. For some reason I thought the McGuffin had to be sort of a secret.

Bill, I'll take you up on it! Thank you very much.

I'll try my best and make it my top priority to get this done. I'd really like to.

Quoted from Grandma Bear Toby, I guess they could be. For some reason I thought the McGuffin had to be sort of a secret.

Hey Pia, according to the ever reliable source of Wikipedia, a McGuffin is:

Quoted from Wikipedia(The Fountain of Knowledge) In fiction, a MacGuffin (sometimes McGuffin or maguffin) is a plot device in the form of some goal, desired object, or other motivator that the protagonist pursues, often with little or no narrative explanation.

Your diamonds are definitely a McGuffin, in my opinion

This seriously is the script which just keeps on growing... After adding two scenes earlier -- one in the first act, another in the second -- the script is now 105 pages... and I am only just sitting down to begin act three.

I'm going to try my best to wrap up the final act in under 20 pages, to ensure that this doesn't come in much above 125. Normally, after finishing a feature, I spend a week or so trimming the fat, which normally drops the page count down by an additional 5-10%. Hoping to be able to spend the final two days before the deadline doing this here (as well as giving this badboy an overall polish/edit)... Which gives me 10ish days to finish the damn thing.

Good luck, all! Libby, Glenn and DS... I'm rooting for ya'!

Dustin, Reef and Pia: Looking forward to reading your entries

I've got to a good stage....I'm bored with it....want to move on.

Once it's read, things will change, but now it's time for me to look at other scripts and await the reads

Quoted from Toby_E Dustin, Reef and Pia: Looking forward to reading your entries

Toby, I won't be entering mine since I wrote it a couple of months before this was even announced. As mentioned though, I'd be happy if anyone offers a read in return. I'm hoping to read all the entries.  

Bill, that's how I felt after having written two and a half versions of SLEEP. Not two and a half drafts. Completely different stories. I got so bored with the story itself I wanted to puke and I stayed away from writing for a while and when I started again, I wrote a few shorts then this feature. Sometimes, you just have to step away for a bit.

I haven't written anything for two days, and I'm away tomorrow till Friday. So, I won't write another word till Saturday. I like to have occasional breaks, they usually last a week. After a whole week, I can't wait to get stuck back in.

Ok, over 40 pages in now. I'm gonna go all in now and make sure I get this done. Might be a bit rough, but the feedback will help me sort it all out. Looking forward to reading everyone's work.

Just picked mine up after giving it a break for three days. Always a good idea to stop working on a script for a while. You then read it with fresh eyes.

Longer is recommended but under the time constraints that was enough.

Not long now before we need to send the links or script, to Don.

Hope everyone is making progress. I wonder how many will finish?

I'm still on track for getting something in...

I've already got some ideas for the next rewrite -- plot points that I want to change, etc. -- but I doubt that I will get these done on time. But I'll have an entry, nonetheless

How's everyone else doing?