I use tacks.
I had a bad experience with a guy named Brad in high school.

Quoted from Dreamscale I think they're called brass brads, aren't they?

I am appalled at that language!

Fine, then!
Are we using 2 or 3 brass BRADS when we upload our celtx or .doc files?

Quoted from Steex I use tacks. I had a bad experience with a guy named Brad in high school.

A man named Brad Sandusky... he... he... I don't want to think about what he did to my script all those years ago at the run down three ring t-rex mime circus.
Sob...  

I heard Sandusky turned your fabulous script about the t-rex mime circus into a two and a half hour long shower scene.

That true?

Oh, he turned it alright.
He turned it over.
Spread it's pages wide open.
Pulled out his big red pen-is what he did.
And crammed in his junky exposition.
That piece was ruin't when he was done.

My mind went blank.
I have no idea how long he spent.

Decades later I'm still traumatized.
The man isn't right.
Someone should take away his big red pen-is what I say.

Butt I don't wanna talk about that.
It doesn't matter in the end, anymore.

My characters are interesting but not odd. Can I use the T-rex mime for my story or is it already taken?

Quoted from DV44 My characters are interesting but not odd. Can I use the T-rex mime for my story or is it already taken?

Each and every script can have a T-Rex and/or a mime.  I think it may crush the budget if you try and make your T-Rex an actual mime, but it would be a wonderful visual.  

All that makeup! And you better have a team of artists incase T, as he likes to be called, gets hungry.

At least he has those tiny arms and won't be able to remove the makeup himself.

Quoted from RayW A drama pisstake won't be d/qed, right?

No pisstakes.  

Quoted from mcornetto No pisstakes.

No, you don't understand - a DRAMA pisstake.
Not comedy.
Not parody.
Not farce.

A sincere classic indie pisstake in the vein of recent indie films such as BLUE VALENTINE, MEEK'S CUTOFF, OUR IDIOT BROTHER, and THE MUSIC NEVER STOPPED.

Not a plane jane pisstake.
A DRAMA pisstake.  

So I just finished my script.
I went back and checked it out.

It seems that I forgot to place it in a motel.
My characters aren't really odd OR interesting.
The hurricane aspect seemed to have slipped my mind.
And also, there is no supernatural aspect.

Turns out, I just wrote a 12 page family dinner conversation.

Hopefully that's not breaking too many rules of the criteria.

Even though I have two ready, I will prolly bail on this one.

I dunno...may be there ...may not.

I did not include a mime or any dogs with ticks though.

Put the dinner convo in a run down motel room during a hurricane that just showed up as if by divine power.
Give each of them a significant PC acceptable disability.
You're gold.

Does the fact that it's a ghost family give it supernatural backstory?
Like, "hey, remember when we became ghosts? That was pretty crazy, huh?"

Quoted from RayW No, you don't understand - a DRAMA pisstake. Not comedy. Not parody. Not farce. A sincere classic indie pisstake in the vein of recent indie films such as BLUE VALENTINE, MEEK'S CUTOFF, OUR IDIOT BROTHER, and THE MUSIC NEVER STOPPED. Not a plane jane pisstake. A DRAMA pisstake.

Can be any genre, Ray. So, instead of doing a pisstake (man, i shoulda patented that phrase 2 OWC's ago...) just do a comedy.

Quoted from Steex Does the fact that it's a ghost family give it supernatural backstory? Like, "hey, remember when we became ghosts? That was pretty crazy, huh?"

D/Q!
Supernatural event is required to be in the past.
Cannot be in the present.
Ghost family at dinner is present supernatural.
Return to "GO!", do not collect $200.

Quoted from stevie Can be any genre, Ray. So, instead of doing a pisstake (man, i shoulda patented that phrase 2 OWC's ago...) just do a comedy.

I refuse to be flexible.
Comedy pisstakes are a known disqualified entry.
My artistic beast DEMANDS a dramatic pisstake.


Alright. I gotta quit, now. I'm making myself laugh.
G'nite! G'nite! G'nite!