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Can someone please help me develop a coping mechanism for those dog pics. I am actually feeling very sick after seeing it and cannot get the image out of my head.
Judging whether a question is stupid or not is entirely subjective. Whilst some people might think a question is stupid, others will not. You can't have a question be both stupid and not stupid, if looked at as an equation they would be cancelling each other out - not existing. Therefore, objectively, there is no such thing as a stupid question or any other type of question based on a value judgment (good, bad, etc) because that all depends on your subjective experience and there will always be someone that disagrees. There are simply questions and their answers.
A shout out to all the folks asking questions(any and all) because the more questions you guys ask, the less I have to ask And I've scrolled through here and found an answer to some of the very things sailing through my sober(tonight) mind!
Still working on an idea. This is going to be harder than I thought.
Can someone please help me develop a coping mechanism for those dog pics. I am actually feeling very sick after seeing it and cannot get the image out of my head.
#weakstomach
I didn't see the dog pics (probably thankfully so). Try looking at images you like in order to replace the images you didn't.
This is far and away the best OWC theme I've seen during my time at SS
I can't take credit for this theme. When this is over, I will unveil who was really behind the scenes on this theme.
Quoted from Dreamscale
The interesting and difficult part of this very open ended challenge is the supernatural back-story for each and every character.
I think it sufficient for the protag to have supernatural. I don't expect (and didn't expect anyone to call me on it) minor characters to have to have a supernatural back-story.
For one, you have multiple characters (I know you declared it can be only one, but who wants to watch a single person in a motel room?) and each of them are involved in their own paranormal (supernatural, same thing) event? And, unless they're in the the same room, you have to have them go outside to get to the others, which involves some kind of effects. Then, you have everyone's favorite good and evil premise but you can't destroy the motel?
I didn't declare you had to have multiple characters. YOu can have one or more interesting characters. It is up to you. I think you need to think outside the box regarding interaction. There are rooms, but also there is the lobby, perhaps a hallway, the ice room. Also, a character can go from room to room. Who says the camera has to follow them outside?
Quoted from general
Can my character be a ...?
Can't be an animal. Can't be a child under the age of 18.
Quoted from Dreamscale
1) How beat up does the motel have to be?
2) What category level does the hurricane have to be?
3) Can we have characters who don't speak, but look like they've had supernatural encounters, like if they're glowing or something?
4) Can we set our scripts in the woods, even though hurricanes would never really be there?
2. Category level enough that folks would want to take shelter at See 1. above.
3. Dunno. Can you?
4. "...character(s) take refuge from a hurricane in a beat-up motel ..." In a motel. Not in the woods, not in space, not on a barge, not... Wait. Jeff, you are jerking me chain, aren't you? And I see Cornetto got to you first.
Just pretend a production company wants to shoot a film and what Don posted is what that company asked for. To me, that means I will try to comply and write something that will easily fit within said parameters. I personally would not try to see how far off I could get from that and then hope that they would still pick mine over the scripts that delivered what the company wanted. That's just me though.
And me, too. To again state the obvious, the purpose of the OWCs are two fold. One purpose is to streach the writing muscle with a real world experience. Two, at the end of this, you should have a script that you can shop around that has a realistic chance of getting produced. There are quite a few OWC scripts that have gone on to be produced in one form or another.
With that being said, while there are no stupid questions, there isn't really any penalty for being bold, thinking outside the box, pushing limits and even cheating.
M.Alexander you're a sick man... One puppy is trying to chew the ear off the other one...
I've got it.... What if I have the lovable Tom Hanks play a young kid who wants to be..... BIG... and then a weird fortune teller machine makes his wish come true and he ends up in a motel playing chopsticks on a giant keyboard....
Sorry, Mark, I have the same idea, only Tom is a mime and he pretends to play a giant piano. Of course, Meg is there as well, also a mime. The hilarity that follows will have to be read to be believed.
I've got it.... What if I have the lovable Tom Hanks play a young kid who wants to be..... BIG... and then a weird fortune teller machine makes his wish come true and he ends up in a motel playing chopsticks on a giant keyboard....
Nobody better steal that idea... It's all me
Where does his choice between good and evil come into play? Why not change it up a bit.
Tom Hanks wants to be SMALL and plays chopsticks on a regular size keyboard.
I'm sure I've seen this idea somewhere though?
Looks like I missed something with the dogs... oh,well probably for the best. That's a nice cute photo above though. Thanks Mike.
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