As RayW correctly surmised, this October '13 One Week Challenge topic and genre will be announced on October 11th at 10:00 pm eastern daylight time.  Each person who takes the challenge will have one week, one hour and 59 minutes to write a screenplay between 6 to 10 pages. The screenplay must  be properly formatted and in PDF format.

Regrettably, iScript.com is going out of business, so there will probably not be an audio performed version of a selected screenplay.  If anyone knows anyone who is willing to do an audio-script in exchange for free advertising, please let me know.

This challenge is completely open to the public, so there will be non-discussion board members participating. I know everyone hates that, but it is only once a year.

There will be a Writer's Choice wherein the participants (and only the participants) will be asked to select one script he or she likes the best.

The Schedule:

October 11th at 10:00 pm edt - Theme and Genre announced
October 18th at 11:59 pm edt - Scripts are due
October 31st at: 5:00 pm edt - Names Revealed and Writer's Choice revealed.

The Gist:

• 6 - 10 pages
  
• PDF format
  
• Properly formatted
  
• This isn't a contest
  
• Free to submit
  
• One entry per person (you can try to slip one by me. If I catch you, the second or third script will be posted after the challenge).
  
• You can revise your script as many times as you wish up until 11:59 pm on 10/18.
  

Quoted from Don [*]This isn't a contest

... it's just the next best thing ...

Yeah, baby! I'm in. I'm always in.

SMILE

I try to pay attention.

Looks all good, even the heinous "open to the degenerate, filthy, disgusting, rabble" part.

Excited to read everyone's scripts. It will be interesting seeing everyone's different take on the genre or topic. It almost reminds me of anthology movies like V/H/S.

Excited to contribute as well of course.

I'm hoping this OWC will spark something in me. I've been like a deflated balloon for too long.  

YAY! An OWC! And the timing's ideal!  (At least for me.)  

Please let it be a topic that gets me inspired!  Oh please, oh please, oh please...  

We do have an alternative to Iscript, if anyone is interested.

Last year I set up a facebook group:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/408704702532488/

The idea was to use skype to do table reads. This was intended just as a tool to help the writer. We would record the read, and it would remain with the writer to do what he wanted with it.

We could either do something similar, having just simplyscript members read, or I could message the members of that facebook group. Even though I haven't done anything with it, I still get several requests a week to join, so there is interest out there.

We could probably do the top 5 scripts.

Just throwing it out there as an option.

Quoted from wonkavite Please let it be a topic that gets me inspired!  Oh please, oh please, oh please...

BLOOD SUCKING, SOCIALIST
DEMOCRATIC VAMPIRES
vs.
BRAIN DEAD, PURITANICAL
REPUBLICAN ZOMBIES!

Woohoo! The only sad thing is I will stop working on my new feature for that week though will try  and get some done.

And just we don't forget - 10 page max means 10!  Not 11 or 12.....TEN!!!  

Jeff will have the down marker chains ready to keep that under control! Lol

Kind of sad hearing iScript going out of business. I had maybe 10 or so scripts made by them. I thought they did a good job.

Pia, I just watched that Pumpkin Nightmare video!  What a great job you did on that! Really fun stuff there!

Oh, and yay for OWC and stuff.

Thanks! I did that one 2 years ago with my daughter. I was hoping to have Them That's Dead done by this Halloween, but...  

Okay I'm in. Its been a while but life sometimes interrupts writing! :]


HGW