Actually, a Christmas drama is my next project. But, you know, the warm and fuzzy kind.

And Lethal Weapon and Die Hard were Christmas actioners. Well, sort of

But a rewrite challenge sounds very cool.

Steve

Quoted from RayW Seriously, what would be good is to have a NOV rewrite of the OCT OWC submissions. We've discussed it. But too few people seem to have the... jizz in their writer's balls to achieve that.

Sounds interesting. While I am going to do a slight rethink overhaul on my effort, if there is (very unlikely) I'm willing to bet at a third of the fifty estimated submissions will be rewritten and improved. Bot just those who are stuck up lazy, but not that small handful of scribes who wrote great scripts for the OWC.

Quoted from KevinLenihan I already voted. Strangely or not, I had the exact same number of scripts as Jeff get better than a pass: 11. They may not be the same scripts, but still weird considering there were 55 scripts.

Interesting...very interresting.

There were 49 actual entries.

I didn't count total, was going on what I saw posted. I only counted the ones selected for 'consider'. None got a 'recommend'.

And BTW: just because I did not review a script did not mean there was anything wrong with the work. Sometimes I just didn't have time to give it proper attention.

Quoted from RayW Seriously, what would be good is to have a NOV rewrite of the OCT OWC submissions.

I LOVE this idea!!  I'd be in for that. Maybe redeem myself a little bit.  

Quoted from mmmarnie I LOVE this idea!!  I'd be in for that. Maybe redeem myself a little bit.

Agreed, the idea hs some merit. How many of us ever get back to a OWC script? It would be terrific to see how the writers respond to the notes and improve their scripts. Writing is rewriting, after all.

I would be willing to reread any rewrites, assuming the writer has been active.

Not wanting to sound negative but,...

you can always rewrite your OWC's. You don't need a challenge to motivate you to do it.

Hell, I think rewriting is a bit easier than writing. At least you're working off something you have on paper. lol.

Gabe

Quoted from Mr.Ripley Not wanting to sound negative but,... you can always rewrite your OWC's. You don't need a challenge to motivate you to do it.

I don't need a "challenge" to motivate me but I do need a deadline. And giving myself one is a joke, almost as funny as my New Year's resolutions.  I think a lot of us are more productive with deadlines. ??

I will be rewriting mine as I like the idea, I just needed more time and space to deliver on it.

Taking two pages off in two hours, because I discovered it was 10 versus 12 pages,  did the concept a huge amount of damage. The connectivity, the tone, the clarity were all fucked!!

It wasn't perfect at 12 pages, actually it needs more and it still needed work and time to reflect, but the carnage the changes did can now be avoided.

Some OWC scripts you can leave there, they're not worth it, but on occasions you come across a good one and want to see what you can produce.

Once finished I will be asking for further feedback as I want to soak up all the responses and use them to improve it. That's not a bad outcome for an OWC.

Quoted from Mr.Ripley you can always rewrite your OWC's. You don't need a challenge to motivate you to do it.

Nah, you're spot on.

I just respect that this is a lot like exercising: sure, you CAN exercise all by yourself in your own living room anytime you want just fine, but SOME people receive optimal benefit by both having a deadline and communion with peers.

Sometimes a shared experience provides deeper meaning than an individual one.

Same thing.  

Quoted from Reef Dreamer Taking two pages off in two hours, because I discovered it was 10 versus 12 pages,  did the concept a huge amount of damage. The connectivity, the tone, the clarity were all fucked!!

Now, if you guys wanna expand on this re-challenge idea, A) not only do we have more time to dot our T's and cross our I's, B) we can elect to ease up on the ten page restriction by bumping it out to a self-constrained circa-twelve page limit, 3) consider more than one version of it as some of these can be re-envisioned as "writers choice", Hollywood-ed (kinda like "Sweded"), and a bare bones version (which is what I'd prefer.)

The last two shorts I wrote, this OWC and something else I'll post in a week or so, were both written with deadlines, and within a particular genre. I found it to be creatively challenging, but I also thought it elevated my work a great deal. Surprising what you can come up with when your back's against the wall.

Not sure my script is even salvageable, but maybe a rewrite could give me some redemption. Basically I'd need to go in with a wrecking ball at first though.

Sounds good to me!

How frequent are OWC's, or is there any pattern to their occurrence at all?

Quoted from Dreamscale JD, I'm seriously impressed you read any, becuase if I was on vacation in old Mexico, I wouldn't give 2, 3, or 4 shits about this OWC!  Good job. But really...3 recommends in 7 reads?  Hmmm...

Thanks! The hard part was trying to comment on them with a bad signal and a malfunctioning Kindle. I had a hard time choosing my favorite between Cesearean Fiction; The Tent; and Where the Lost Souls Thrive. Each had more positive qualities than bad, and had some excellent writing in their own way. I also liked the originality of each, which is why I gave them a recommend.

I think when I started reading the ones I did, they had more comments and were near the top? Anyway, I just read in order...

Quoted from Mr.Ripley ...you can always rewrite your OWC's. You don't need a challenge to motivate you to do it.

I got some great feedback on mine, so I definitely plan to rewrite it. I only had two days to bang it out, and it shows