Quoted from Mr. Blonde Everyone, excluding Jeff, will be here to give you friendly, helpful criticism. You take the criticism, good or bad, and make the most of it. =)

Hey now, what's with this shit?  I can be very friendly and nice.

Trust me, if I do submit this atom bomb, peeps are going to be having a field day on it.

Quoted from Dreamscale Hey now, what's with this shit?  I can be very friendly and nice.

Gotta remember, though, Jeff, we haven't had an OWC since your move and new job so I haven't REALLY seen the new you yet. However, if and when we do, I'll be more than happy to see it. =)

I still got nothin'.

Ahh, the talk of not taking part raises its head.

I said when this was first released it was very prescriptive so tricky to pull off. I prefer wider criteria.

On the other hand, everyone knows that its going to be hard to pull off, lots of exposition etc so we can all hide in that. Well, thats what i'm banking on.

Lets be honest, we all want to do well, write a decent script and have everyone say well done. But with these criteria, if i havent pulled that off, well i'm i wont be too bothered as they are very restrictive.

Yes, producers may give you a tight set of circumstances to work with but would it be this tight (maybe i dont know) but also would you have one week - which for most of us is five days once we find out what it is, and have to make sure it goes in on time etc

Better to have a go and laugh at it afterwards, than not take part, me thinks

You can always rewrite after it's over...

I live for the challenge of restrictions. The more restricted the better. It forces me to be even more creative, to find a way to make it happen, and the less time I have to dwell on it the better.

That doesn't necessarily mean what I come up with is any good, I just like the challenge.  

Quoted from Reef Dreamer This time I think I have a chance, got a real contender for...worse LOGLINE. Just shocking. Why don't I put more effort into this?

I think the main difficulty in such is the challenge itself. You are going to see a lot of logs with one or more of the following words:

- stranded
- refuge
- abandoned
- motel
- hurricane (or storm)

Once the OWC is over, if there are any keepers, folks will rewrite and improve, drop or add so a better logline (and/or script) can emerge. I am not in love with my logline either. I almost want to go back and add the cliche  'nothing is what it seems' because it would hardly make a difference.

Keep in mind, it is a OWC too. Not every logline is going to grab a spotlight.
AND beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

and by the way, in my OWC script, I cooked something up, killed all the mimes but saved all the clowns.

Yes, there will be mime blood.
Yes, I do have a sex scene with three mimes.
Yes, the mime t rex doll is used within that sex scene.
Yes, it gives all new meaning to supernatural and good vs evil occurances.

The hurricane is a metaphor. A mime does something cruel and unusual with a garden hose

Now that I've entered and need to calm down my mind after five furious days of working out what to write, it struck me that OWC can be a little too serious sometimes, and I just wonder whether we could lighten the mood in the coming weeks with the...

OCT 2012 - OWC - Informal awards.

These would be non offensive, light hearted BUT still seek to identify issues that we can learn from, errors, mistakes etc I don't envisage real voting just banter, posts etc within the thread, unless a mod wishes to do more, but that's not the intention of this.

My suggestions would be, and I welcome others and general discourse on the subject;

# Worst LOGLINE  - that's mine, nobody else is getting close

# Funniest line - intended or unintended, such a big difference

# Weirdest character - not writer!

# Highest kill - in case of dispute extra wounded characters can be included in a count off. Lost limbs getting bonus points.

# Script furthest away from the criteria - could be mine again, but a title with lots of competition I expect

# Most amount os spelling mistakes - got to have one to keep us on our toes, yup mine again

# The What? Award - for the what the hell have I just read title. Open to interpretation as to what this would mean.

# The Jeff Bush Award for worst Slug line - just had to add that one

Oh so many options....

Hey folks, enjoy the next week or so.

This is good times. We need more. How about:

The Worst Use of a Hurricane Award.

The Most/Least Interesting Character Award.

The Worst Motel Room Award.

The Worst Title Award.

The Worst Ending Award.

Those are some more fun ones for now. =)

# The Wassup! Award - for the script with the most clichés, disputes settled by most clichés on a single page.

# The IDGI - for the script least understood. (Yeah, I'd win this one.)

# The Deus Ex Machina award - for the script with the lamest coincidence saving the day.

How about some positive awards?

Best written

Best story

Makes the most sense

Best use of the requirements

Hottest character

Best use of mimes and dinosaurs

Least amount of dialogue?  (this one will be coveted)
Most dialogue?
Most characters?
Most interesting characters?
The one where the storm was only in it because one of the requirements said there had to be a storm in it award?

... Longest/most frequent sex scene(s)? (between mimes, of course)

The Lone Ranger Award for...

...the most unlikely stranger/character that saves the day. Mask optional.

I just hit SUBMIT on mime.

If there is a coffee cup for the MOST UNPOLISHED, it should probably go to me

*slips into her kevlar vest, kick her heels off to apply knee pads and hiking boots, grabs a softball helmet covered in grafitti, slips it over my brain(what's left)*

Ready for a beating!