Hey Don

just noted you intend to release the scripts on sunday, 21st.

Any chance some could be released on saturday - its my free reading day!! Plus, what an agonising wait!

Mind you, i do understand that if they are released in batches, with a big time difference, the early ones tend to get more reads, so fairer to do quite quickly.

I'm in.

Quoted from rc1107 Hey Ray. I use Trelby screenwriting software.  It can run script, location, scene, and character reports, and also even dialogue charts, letting you know how much screentime the characters are getting, how often they're in the story, and how often they're not.

Final Draft also provides this breakdown.

Just noticed the picture of the motel on the front page. It looks awfully close to the one down the street from my house. And is that my wife's car? WTF!!!! Have to hope she didn't catch anything from the T-rex mime!

My script is going to kick ass! The title is "A Mime Is a Terrible Thing To Waste"

It's about a mime and his ventriloquist puppet. The mime doesn't talk only the puppet does. They check in to the motel and during the night, the puppet gets a phone call from the puppet master that tell him to kill the mime. When the mime is killed, he screams a silent mime scream.  

Well, I'm still debating staying out, because my characters are neither odd nor interesting and I have no past supernatural event, I found a way to fit in that event. But, if I do enter, don't blame me when you read it and think to yourself, "God, that felt so unnecessarily out of place." After all, there was no stipulation where it said this had to make sense, now, did it? =)

Good to see so many quotes involving mimes.  They are truly under appreciated.  

Just want to throw out  my thoughts on the supernatural thing.  Because we have a single location and no budget, any prior events/history can only be shown through dialogue, and it will be expositional dialogue as well.  What I'm saying is that it would be very easy to juts have a character say, "Remember when you had that supernatural experience, involving that mime that looked like a fucking dinosaur?".

SO, my take is that through some simple dialogue, this qualification can be easily met.

Now, the tough part is to throw in some reference to a supernatural event that is relevant to the story taking place at the beatup motel, in the hurricane.

I think my idea is going to work.  Like a few others, I currently sit at 0% action, 0% dialogue, 1% other.  The other being "FADE IN" middle centered, in ROYGBIV.

Damn, 3 days left...gots to get movin'.

Can't be arsed to trawl through 17 pages to find the seed, but from where does this mime thing stem?

I was serious about my mime script Jeff. I'm halfway through, but I won't have time to finish because I have other things that I have to take care of first. The puppet's supernatural event was when the puppet master made him come alive. Serious!  

Mine's about a mime who holes himself up in a cheap motel and hangs newspaper clippings all around the room because he's trying to crack russian codes embedded in common advertisements about a plot to move an atom bomb.

He's working for the boss of a secret government agency named Herry Cane who's pounding on the door for the secret codes.  .........SPOILER!.............Finally, the mime's wife helps him realize that the Herry Cane is all in his mind!

So if you see an OWC entry named 'A Beautiful Mime', that one's mine.  (I'm pretty sure that one wasn't on Ray's list.)

Quoted from Dreamscale Just want to throw out  my thoughts on the supernatural thing.  Because we have a single location and no budget, any prior events/history can only be shown through dialogue, and it will be expositional dialogue as well.  What I'm saying is that it would be very easy to juts have a character say, "Remember when you had that supernatural experience, involving that mime that looked like a fucking dinosaur?".

This is the simplest way to do it, but by no means the only way. If there's a supernatural event in your story, how characters react to it can speak about their experiences with similar events (characterization). Or if your character never stays at a motel without an EMF reader to check for ghosts first (action). Or a little woman with a shrill voice shows up and starts speaking to a television which only shows static (pop culture reference). Or an African shaman walks in (implied by profession).

Yeah, Rene, dialogue an/or actions...but...if you simply use actions, it may not come through as you hope it will.

For instance, just because someone walks in with an EMF reader, that does not necessarily mean they've ever done this before, nor does it mean they have experienced anything supernatural.

Not trying to be difficult, just saying that the only "true" way to show a past event is by actually showing it, or through dialogue.  Now, the dialogue doesn't have to be so on the nose exposition that it literally says, "I had a supernatural experience in which I saw ghost mimes dancing the Lambada, and it was before I chugged the Patron."

There are more subtle ways to get the point across.

Quoted from Dreamscale Like a few others, I currently sit at 0% action, 0% dialogue, 1% other.  The other being "FADE IN" middle centered, in ROYGBIV.

ROYGBIV?!
EFFFFFFF MEEEEEE!

Now I gotta change to that from the 18pt arial hot pink.

Otherwise, count me in that same group of "others"; I got bupkis.
All I can think of is just retarded stuff.

I look forward to seeing what you guys come up with.

And I keep having semi-horror recollections about reading all of those OWC set in an abandoned house with three characters, one in a wheelchair.
Got rather tedious reading those after a few weeks.

Now that I can put off my homework for a few days, I may see what I can come up with tonight.

I have an idea that covers some of the requirements but not the others.

And the place across the street is barbecuing chicken and it smells really good and it's really distracting.

Eat the chicken and then write the script.

My happy Hour plans fell through, so it looks like I may actually try and write this thing before the deadline.