Quoted from Grandma Bear I'm out. Got an editing session tomorrow night for a Halloween short I did with my daughter. I had a story plotted, but failed to come up with a good title and I can't start typing without that. Good luck everyone. I'll read as many as I can.

Are you serious, Pia? You jester you.   Doesn't it usually work the other way around? A lot of times I find my title later. I've noticed that's a trend lately.

I can't imagine Pia not entering a Halloween OWC. That would be just...

You're scaring me!!!! It's 2011 for crying out loud!!! We need to wake this world up! Shake things up! Pia! No!!!!!!!

Sandra

Quoted from mcornetto I'm pretty sure I'm sitting this one out to.  I came up with a couple of ideas but neither inspired me to finish the script.  It's getting late and I don't think I'll have the time to write one now.  I hate missing October OWCs too! So good luck to those that did enter.

My Lord G-d Almighty. Please save me if this is truly happening!

Sandra

PS... why do I keep adding my name at the end? Can any statisticians find out how much time I waste by this? In a day? In a year?

Sandra

Crap! I did it again.

Sandra

Yay, managed to get my 16 page opus down to 11.
I had no idea what to write, so started in the middle and worked outward.
Seemed to work ok - we'll see!
As for genre, did a little research, got bored (you ever have a day when you can't even be bothered to read?), I went for a Hammer house of Horror style story with more heaving bosoms.

Quoted from darrentomalin As for genre, did a little research, got bored (you ever have a day when you can't even be bothered to read?),

No. I'm stressed all of the time. I have this "weird condition". It stems from my right sinus and it causes auto-immune issues. I'm fucked up with it!

Thing is, I use writing as a means to cope and share the human condition. I have never been one to be bored in my life. Rather, I always feel short of time. Like I'm always running out of it and I wish I could help people more.

DJ, reading is so very important. You can't learn anything if you don't read.

I hope you find the things that spark your interest. In the meantime, listen to lots of good music!

Sandra

oh my, I read all the time, sometimes I get "readed out" as if I can't absorb any more words!
I am never bored in general - I have so many things I like to do and listening to good music is one of my favourites so good suggestion!
The "random" button on tv-tropes or wikipedia is good for five minutes too!

Well, I did it. Just hit "send". I don't know if it's a contender or not, it's a pretty loose interpretation of the theme, but I love it. Hope you guys do too.

Quoted from leitskev Quiou Hey there. Glad you could join. Best thing might be for you to go to the older OWC thread and read some scripts, especially the ones that received warm reviews. Usually those give you a good idea of format and proper writing. If you have a specific question, post it here, someone will help. Good luck! Kevin

Thank you for your answer. I will Try to read some of them before tonight. For the format I used CELTX. I'm a french native so my english is not perfect. I will send my "script" ( if you can call this a script) tonight.
An other question (it sounds a little bit stupid) what is "edt" when you say 11:59 edt?  (eastern time?)?

Eastern Daylight-Savings Time (I think) as opposed to est which is Eastern Standard Time.

I'm pretty sure it just based on the server clock which you can see at the top of the page.

Well, I'm in. Ready to start reading shorts!

Hi everybody,

Looking forward to reading all your scripts, let's hope it's fun.

The gothic horror is new to me so will be interesting to read all the different takes on it.

All the best.

Sorry, guys - I'm out too I finally got an idea, but I'm just not familiar enough with the genre to get a feel for writing this thing. Plus I've got some editing to finish that I was meant to send over yesterday

Good luck guys! I'll try to read them all, but it'll probably be pretty tough - I'm guessing I'll read the first one and realize I wasn't as far off the genre as I thought:p

I have to say I am having a tough time with this, why? I have no clue. I will likely turn in something, but what it is, will be shakey at best.

For all of you struggling with the theme...don't worry about it.

My script is genre and theme perfect and is absolutey superb, so it will make up for all your woeful attempts.

I'm the ultimate team player.

LOL Rick!  

I have a feeling there's going to be a record number of entries. I won't have the time to read them all so I decided instead of trying to read ALL, I will read fewer, but offer better more helpful comments to those I do read.

Since I will have to pick and chose and I imagine so will most others, I would suggest to all who submit something to pay attention to the log lines.

Good luck everyone!  

Well its not the Theme thats the problem, I love those Hammer films and Gothic horror.
I dont know what the heck the problem is actually, brain fart? lol