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Just Murdered by Sean Elwood (Zombie Sean) and Gabriel Moronta (Mr. Ripley) - (Dark Comedy, Horror) All is fair in love and war. A hopeless romantic gay man resorts to bloodshed to win the coveted position of Bridesmaid. 99 pages. https://www.simplyscripts.net/cgi-bin/Blah/Blah.pl?b-comedy/m-1624410571/
Please choose a genre for us instead of this open genre stuff. Challenge us to write out of our comfort zones instead of letting us choose our preferred genre. Just a thought cuz a lot of these have been open genre lately and that’s not much of a challenge, IMO.
Has there ever been an OWC where the genre is Action?
Not sure... I do know it's been a long time between RomCom/Drama. The last one we had we also had to write lyrics to a song - music was supplied. An unfavourable genre with some but the entries from most were very entertaining and a nice change of pace.
I think some good advice here is to not take bad reviews personally. It will be your choices on this occasion that are being questioned, not your credentials as a writer. Well, from most of us anyway.
I wouldn't know about your OWC comment, Dustin, since the next one will be my first attempt at one, though I do know for a fact the final two sentences from your comment are false overstatements.
I wouldn't know about your OWC comment, Dustin, since the next one will be my first attempt at one, though I do know for a fact the final two sentences from your comment are false overstatements.
I'm not sure exactly what you mean as I haven't exaggerated anything... nor have I falsely done so. What is a false exaggeration? Wouldn't it be defined as not being an exaggeration at all? But then why bother writing it if you don't believe it is? Very strange and too difficult for me to decipher. Could you be more clear?
Basically, Matthew, don't leave your score in the post, don't specify which entry is yours and do your best to keep the criticism to a level of something that the writer could use to actually improve the script. That's your basic etiquette for the OWC.
What about an OWC that is limited to a single location and just one character. Genre: Action.
That would be challenging.
Zack
I hope it's that because I have an idea for that now - In fact, even without the OWC I might write it lol I have challenged myself to write 12 shorts this year after all
It has to be a love triangle challenge but the twist is that two of three in the triangle are sex robots.
Some of my scripts:
Bounty (TV Pilot) -- Top 1% of discoverable screenplays on Coverfly I'll Be Seeing You (short) - OWC winner The Gambler (short) - OWC winner Skip (short) - filmed Country Road 12 (short) - filmed The Family Man (short) - filmed The Journeyers (feature) - optioned
5 page minimum or maximum? If it's minimum, I'm writing a 93 page short.
Some of my scripts:
Bounty (TV Pilot) -- Top 1% of discoverable screenplays on Coverfly I'll Be Seeing You (short) - OWC winner The Gambler (short) - OWC winner Skip (short) - filmed Country Road 12 (short) - filmed The Family Man (short) - filmed The Journeyers (feature) - optioned
Whatever it may be, can’t wait to read it and see what you creative people come up with.
Gabe
Just Murdered by Sean Elwood (Zombie Sean) and Gabriel Moronta (Mr. Ripley) - (Dark Comedy, Horror) All is fair in love and war. A hopeless romantic gay man resorts to bloodshed to win the coveted position of Bridesmaid. 99 pages. https://www.simplyscripts.net/cgi-bin/Blah/Blah.pl?b-comedy/m-1624410571/
Oy vey, I smell a George Glass Brady Bunch themed OWC coming on. For those of you who didn’t have the misfortune of watching the Brady Bunch growing up, George Glass was the mysterious boyfriend Jan made up because she was jealous that her high school crush was more interested in Marsha than her. I am not ashamed to admit I’ve seen that episode more than once growing Up.
Gary
Some of my scripts:
Bounty (TV Pilot) -- Top 1% of discoverable screenplays on Coverfly I'll Be Seeing You (short) - OWC winner The Gambler (short) - OWC winner Skip (short) - filmed Country Road 12 (short) - filmed The Family Man (short) - filmed The Journeyers (feature) - optioned
SitCom from the 70s, which reportedly ended when the actor for the dad quit because the show was just too stupid for him to continue working there.
The actress for mom dated the actor for the oldest son (fortunately this was NOT one of the sitcoms that used actors actually related to one another).
The clue in the page header seems like “third time’s the charm” although also note that The Brady Bunch family did have three daughters. Might be a weird reference to the youngest daughter.
Eve played Jan. So New Year’s Eve leads into Jan but there’s also a lot of broken hearts on New Years .... and shit. I got nothing.
Some of my scripts:
Bounty (TV Pilot) -- Top 1% of discoverable screenplays on Coverfly I'll Be Seeing You (short) - OWC winner The Gambler (short) - OWC winner Skip (short) - filmed Country Road 12 (short) - filmed The Family Man (short) - filmed The Journeyers (feature) - optioned
Yep, I agree, pretty clever, Gary, and more of us shoulda sussed: Jan, as in January. The broken heart symbol is made with ALT+3 and there's two of them, three plus three is six, but then a full heart, hmm... Obviously a date cause Don's written 'on' and then: questions will be answered. Probably goes to theme as well. Valentine's Day is too far away. Could we have another hint please? I'll take a vowel...
Yep, I agree, pretty clever, Gary, and more of us shoulda sussed: Jan, as in January. The broken heart symbol is made with ALT+3 and there's two of them, three plus three is six, but then a full heart, hmm... Obviously a date cause Don's written 'on' and then: questions will be answered. Probably goes to theme as well. Valentine's Day is too far away. Could we have another hint please? I'll take a vowel...
I've stared at the keyboard for 30 minutes to come up with a response and I can't come up with anything. Too much, I give it away. Too little, and it causes confusion.
Had I known that anyone other than bert, me, and mr. blonde would actually want to be mod, I would have asked LC a lot sooner.
So the hint is:
"One should take a long, hard look at what LC has written. Time is not on your side. "
I've stared at the keyboard for 30 minutes to come up with a response and I can't come up with anything. Too much, I give it away. Too little, and it causes confusion.
Had I known that anyone other than bert, me, and mr. blonde would actually want to be mod, I would have asked LC a lot sooner.
So the hint is:
"One should take a long, hard look at what LC has written. Time is not on your side. "
- Don
At my age, time hasn't been on my side for about a decade
Well, the Unicode values for the broken heart and heart are 1F494 and 1F493, respectively, which doesn't tell me anything. I can't figure out how to enter emoji using my keyboard, so the shortcuts are of no use to me.
If it's a simple cipher, it'd have to be JANxxy, and the numbers that make the most sense are 119 for Jan 1, '19. Obviously, we didn't get our answer on Jan 1. Setting x as zero, y could be any digit, but we didn't get an answer on Jan 1-9.
A more complicated cipher would take the heart halves as distinct elements, giving us JANxyxyz. Taking the last two as 19 again, that's JAN x1x '19, where the only x that makes sense is a zero. But we didn't get an answer on Jan 10, either. These leaves out the possibility of z being equal to x+y.
If it's as LC said and it's some kind of sum, then we have JAN x+x+y, which could be 3+3+6 (since a whole heart is two halves) for JAN 12. Could theoretically be 4+4+8 for JAN 16 or 5+5+10 for JAN 20 or 6+6+12 for JAN 24 or 7+7+14 for JAN 28. Those all seem unlikely.
Since "time is not on our side" I will go with JAN 12.
Huh? Trust you, Frank. You're like my hubby - majoring in English is just not sufficient, a mathematician freak as well.
That said I wonder if I'm overthinking it (probably) by adding Brady to Jan + heart equals bradycardia - usually defined as a resting heart rate that is below 60 beats per minute. Usual is between 60 and one hundred beats.
Do anything with those numbers? Ticking clock apparently. P.S. J & B equals 12 on the alphabet.
Maybe it’s much simpler than we’re making it — two broken hearts become one (21). So on Jan 21 your questions will be answered. But that’s probably not it because OWC’s are always announced on Friday’s, right? So strike two for me.
Some of my scripts:
Bounty (TV Pilot) -- Top 1% of discoverable screenplays on Coverfly I'll Be Seeing You (short) - OWC winner The Gambler (short) - OWC winner Skip (short) - filmed Country Road 12 (short) - filmed The Family Man (short) - filmed The Journeyers (feature) - optioned
I do have an alternate theory about how to determine the timing of the announcement. I’m off the airport in a bit, and it will be 16 hours before I get home, followed by me collapsing in bed.
Therefore the announcement should come in the next 24 hours
*Janus, the god of two faces, looks ahead to the future and back to the past as he makes a decision to break people's hearts in two and not hold the OWC until Valentines Day.
*Jan has broken two hearts, but will she break a third?
*Looking ahead, a half hearted attempt at finding love twice in the same month leads to a full attempt in February and Valentines Day becomes a national holiday because of it. Woo-hoo!
Just Murdered by Sean Elwood (Zombie Sean) and Gabriel Moronta (Mr. Ripley) - (Dark Comedy, Horror) All is fair in love and war. A hopeless romantic gay man resorts to bloodshed to win the coveted position of Bridesmaid. 99 pages. https://www.simplyscripts.net/cgi-bin/Blah/Blah.pl?b-comedy/m-1624410571/
i think it's most likely Stevie's broken heart when he tried to have sex with Marilyn Monroe's skeleton, and sadly, his 3 inch member cuoldn't even get through the bones...and then he was thrown in jail anyway.
We had a Valentine's Day OWC a few years ago. I even rewrote that entry into something pretty good, but too expensive to justify. Now that my schedule is a little more relaxed, I hope to be in.
So the January OWC is going to be a Valentine's Day themed OWC?
I'll try, but writing romance is a bit outside my expertise. No one I ever dated (up to and including the one I married) was ever hung up on all the courtship rituals. Most stress I ever had leading up to a Valentine's Day was remembering the names of all my classmates in Third Grade.
Dammit, I was so close on guessing on the clues! I had the right week, and even said it’s always announced on a Friday. I feel like I should get a mug for just being in the ballpark.
Also, I’m going to enter, even though my wife claims my idea of a romantic gesture consists of putting the toilet seat down after using the loo.
Gary
Some of my scripts:
Bounty (TV Pilot) -- Top 1% of discoverable screenplays on Coverfly I'll Be Seeing You (short) - OWC winner The Gambler (short) - OWC winner Skip (short) - filmed Country Road 12 (short) - filmed The Family Man (short) - filmed The Journeyers (feature) - optioned
Also, I’m going to enter, even though my wife claims my idea of a romantic gesture consists of putting the toilet seat down after using the loo.Gary
FUNNY!
Even funnier is that I'm the one who preaches about the toilet seat being down over here! My girlfriend has gotten a Hell of alot better, but not perfect still, and when we have grandkids over, the front bathroom toilet seat ain't down unless I close it myself.
Also, my girlfriend doesn't seem to be impressed when I give her kitchen gadgets, a vacuum, or other cleaning tools for Christmas. Am I not romantic?
Hmmm I could do romantic even though it makes me gag... gonna be a short??? or 7WC?? Cuz I do need to get a sappy Hallmark thing in my bag of scripts.
I'll be happy if I can pull my current "serious effort in motion" draft into existence.
We share the same feelings with regard to "sappy". I just can't stomach it either and that says a lot because I'm a "too soft-too sentimental-person-" at heart.
So I don't get it.
But as far as writing out of genre?
One thing I do is try and challenge myself by studying genres that I myself don't want to write...
...Not that I'm going to write that genre, but rather, try and put myself inside that point of view. I think that challenge serves a purpose.
If it is Valentine's Day themed, it doesn't have to be sappy or sentimental. Lots of breakups happen around then, disappointment, single people celebrating Anti-Valentine"s...
If it is Valentine's Day themed, it doesn't have to be sappy or sentimental. Lots of breakups happen around then, disappointment, single people celebrating Anti-Valentine"s...
I'm not some kind of love/romance teetotaler, and in fact have boy-meets-girl plot points in a couple of my scripts, but none of them is anywhere near a traditional romance (for example, Glass House has a female serial killer who finally meets a guy who measures up to her high expectations... not holding my breath for the Hallmark Channel to call).
If this is a romantic theme. The things I say are pure cheese. In the beginning she said it wasn’t her thing. But deep down, I know she loves it. Or at least I tell myself that. On the page it’ll be pure cheese.
I'll be happy if I can pull my current "serious effort in motion" draft into existence.
We share the same feelings with regard to "sappy". I just can't stomach it either and that says a lot because I'm a "too soft-too sentimental-person-" at heart.
So I don't get it.
But as far as writing out of genre?
One thing I do is try and challenge myself by studying genres that I myself don't want to write...
...Not that I'm going to write that genre, but rather, try and put myself inside that point of view. I think that challenge serves a purpose.
Sandra
Totally agree with you on studying what you don't want to write. I am one of those writers that still has not found my niche ...but I hate most of all writing comedy but I often read it. Can learn to swim by treading deep water. (long as there are not hungry sharks)
I would just humbly ask that the powers that be make this a "normal" OWC -- i.e., one week to enter, one week to review, then results. Maybe shorter number of pages to make it easier for us to review as many as possible.
Just my two cents. Gary
Some of my scripts:
Bounty (TV Pilot) -- Top 1% of discoverable screenplays on Coverfly I'll Be Seeing You (short) - OWC winner The Gambler (short) - OWC winner Skip (short) - filmed Country Road 12 (short) - filmed The Family Man (short) - filmed The Journeyers (feature) - optioned
I would just humbly ask that the powers that be make this a "normal" OWC -- i.e., one week to enter, one week to review, then results. Maybe shorter number of pages to make it easier for us to review as many as possible.
Just my two cents. Gary
The "save the date" was for a three-week period, so sounds like this will be fairly close.
Wasn't a huge fan of M.Mc, but this movie won me over. Love physical comedy and she does it so well.
Looking forward to the announcement, Pia. Very curious about this one especially on the back of a comment which was quickly withdrawn. Yes, I saw it...
Looking forward to the announcement, Pia. Very curious about this one especially on the back of a comment which was quickly withdrawn. Yes, I saw it...
I deleted it because the video link was not the right one.
I hope you guys show up for this OWC. You all have requested a challenge, so that's what it'll be.
Mine would be pretty easy to guess -- it would be the one with all the negative reviews.
Some of my scripts:
Bounty (TV Pilot) -- Top 1% of discoverable screenplays on Coverfly I'll Be Seeing You (short) - OWC winner The Gambler (short) - OWC winner Skip (short) - filmed Country Road 12 (short) - filmed The Family Man (short) - filmed The Journeyers (feature) - optioned
Bounty (TV Pilot) -- Top 1% of discoverable screenplays on Coverfly I'll Be Seeing You (short) - OWC winner The Gambler (short) - OWC winner Skip (short) - filmed Country Road 12 (short) - filmed The Family Man (short) - filmed The Journeyers (feature) - optioned