Quoted from Angry Bear   I have discovered that mine is dull. Have plot holes the size of lunar craters. Shallow uneven characters...yes, I'm currently at that stage where I doubt everything I write.

Doubting can be good. Better than thinking it's absolutely marvellous and everybody will love it. When they won't.

It sounds at least like you have most, if not all, of it already written. This is very good. As a wiser man than I once said to someone struggling to start writing a story - write something. You can always change it after.

And you can.

You know where it's dull - so pep it up a bit. If a character is coming across as dull you can always spice up their dialogue and make them more intriguing. Have them do something unusual and curious.

You know what works. You've also done this before. I suspect your script is better than you think. It's just not as good as you hoped. But it can be.

As for loglines I think I might try Bowie's lyric technique - write a load of words on little bits of paper then pick them out at random. Hey, it worked for the Thin White Duke. Might work for me too.

Quoted from Angry Bear Is 12:18pm too early for a Guinness?

Yo're evidently not Irish.

R

Quoted from rendevous Doubting can be good. Better than thinking it's absolutely marvellous and everybody will love it. When they won't.

I go through this all the time...hence the heavy Guinness intake.  

Quoted from rendevous It sounds at least like you have most, if not all, of it already written. This is very good. As a wiser man than I once said to someone struggling to start writing a story - write something. You can always change it after.

It's currently at 92 pages and I did write FADE OUT, but the ending definitely needs work! I'll try to work on it tomorrow.

Quoted from rendevous As for loglines I think I might try Bowie's lyric technique - write a load of words on little bits of paper then pick them out at random. Hey, it worked for the Thin White Duke. Might work for me too.

The best logline person here at SS is actually Electric Dreamer, IMO. He's GREAT at it!

Quoted from rendevous Yo're evidently not Irish.

I'm Swedish. I just don't do vodka or aquavit. I'm a beer person.  

Quoted from Angry Beer   I'm a beer person.

Nothing wrong with that. Or being Swedish. I imagine the two go together well. Hang on, isn't Guinness stout? Oooooh. I found a hair on my cake. I'm just going to split it. I like doing that.

Quoted from Angry Stout It's currently at 92 pages and I did write FADE OUT, but the ending definitely needs work! I'll try to work on it tomorrow.

I wrote Fade Out too. It was fun. Bloody endings always need work. Good luck to you and all bashing away at keyboards. I mean typing.

Now, I'm off to see a man about a goat.

R

My dog's name is actually Guinness Stout.  

Anyway, it's quiet here. I hope quite a few of you guys will submit something.

I've managed to get way behind now, only got to page 60, so I'm 15 behind where I wanted to be. Hopefully, if I bring my A game, I can get to page 90(ish) and the magical FADE OUT by Sunday, giving me around a week to try and fix up as much as I can.

I'm not sure right now whether I'll be happy enough to send it in on deadline, but all I really care about is getting to FADE OUT as I've never got there in a feature before. With my writing style, it'll be better than a vomit draft, but until I've finished and read through, I won't know for sure how good or bad it is.

I'm now mainly just trying to create positive vibes for myself in order to finish. Finishing a feature in seven weeks, no matter the standard, will be a massive personal achievement for me.

Well, I tried to get back in the game after my vacation - wrote to page 35.... but now I'm beat. I caught a cold which doesn't seem to let go.
And now I'm thinking rewriting this thing will take time and energy which I don't have since it's a thriller. And thrillers are boring and depressing to me.
So I'm not thinking to continue anymore. Maybe next year)

I just got off writing a horror (tranlating my own work actually) and I want to do something fun. Something cheerful and funny and uplifting.
Also, reading thrillers is no fun I noticed. I won't be much help reading yours as I'm not into thrillers at all.
So, I''m bowing of for sure this time.

Good luck to those who plan to finish by August 15th! It's very daring to let your first drafts be read by SS community. I did it twice. Too bad I can't finish it now but that's how it is. Anyway, good luck to all!!!

Pia, I didn't know you got yours in the pile. Did you out yourself? Which one is it?

Khamanna!!!!! Boring and depressing????? I'm really sorry you feel that way. I understand if you like more cheerful and happy things though. And I hope you get over your cold too.  To me, thrillers are my favorites and it's one of the most popular genres.

I was not going to enter anything, but for awhile there in the early going, it looked like maybe no one would participate, so even though I didn't have the time at all, I thought, shit, I better submit something so it's not a complete fiasco. So yes, I did write something. I did not enter the first ten pages however. I was encouraged to see so many entries for the first 10 pages. I'm just wondering how many will actually finish. I hope you all do.  

Yeah, I'm really sorry too. I know it's the most popular genre and for a while I used to force myself into writing several - some are a mix of thriller and horror - not easy.
And I know I'm not an ideal candidate to read and comment as I don't watch thrillers therefore don't know much about them. I watch some... but not enough.

Maybe I'll finish mine sometime - just for the sake of finishing a job that's been started.

Maybe comedy next time, Khamanna.  

So, I'm in. I think Dena is. Dustin. Rendevous. Libby?

Who else?

Ok, you guys who are slacking. I'm going to light a fire under your asses! I know for a fact that there is a company who will at least be checking out the loglines when these are done. Wouldn't you feel bad if your logline intrigued them, but you didn't finish your script?

I thought Dena pulled her two 7WC scripts awhile ago?

Yes, she did, but that doesn't mean she can't entered the feature part. That goes for anyone else too that has pulled theirs.

The rules in the 1+6WC are not the same as in the OWC. The aim here is to write a feature in a short period of time and within the parameters given.  

I wish I saw this sooner, by time I noticed the challenge it was not enough time for me. I will definitely enter future challenges

I'll probably be good to go. I ended up working on something more important for a good chunk of the time, but I've been moving along on my entry now. Switched to a different story to try to get closer to the tone -- my ten pages were Firestorm (the comedy-fantasy-thriller) but I'm now working on a sci-fi thriller, so that's slightly less off, anyway.

Like Khamanna, I find the vast majority of thrillers boring as hell, especially the kind with tough fifty-year-old men in the lead, so I was never going to write a perfect fit. But hopefully I'll have a script in.

Great to hear, Chris!  

I think most stories change as we write them. I know that's true for me too. Even if I do an outline, the story usually decides it wants to go a different direction that I originally planned.

The two I put on here...got ripped to shreds and I could not find the pieces to even put them back together...so I wrote something else. It's mostly contained thriller...it still fits the challenge I think...although definitely NOT perfectly...I'll submit for the hell of it.