Struggling....

Quoted from JEStaats Struggling....

You're not alone. The struggle is real.

Quoted from mmmarnie You're not alone. The struggle is real.

But, is it, though? I quote Alec Baldwin:

"You think this is abuse? You can't take this, how can you take the abuse you get on a sit? You don't like it, leave."

Nah, I'm just playin'. Although, second prize will get a set of steak knives... Well, probably not, but you never know. =)

Quoted from Mr. Blonde But, is it, though? I quote Alec Baldwin: "You think this is abuse? You can't take this, how can you take the abuse you get on a sit? You don't like it, leave." Nah, I'm just playin'. Although, second prize will get a set of steak knives... Well, probably not, but you never know. =)

I'm actually bummed it's ending. You created a super tough challenge Blondie...and I loved it!! Thank you!!

Quoted from mmmarnie I'm actually bummed it's ending. You created a super tough challenge Blondie...and I loved it!! Thank you!!

In a tortured sort of way, I agree, Marnie.  

And! It's certainly teaching me how to cut cut cut the long-winded stuff.
Having said that we'll see if the story remains intact enough to make the cut.

Gotta play catch-up too cause ISP was out most of the day.

Submitted the fifth and final one!

I gotta say, although there has been a degree of anxiety and stress involved, especially once I started working again, I have absolutely loved this tournament.

Thank you so much, Blondie, for organising this. Thanks to my writing partner for making each week's selection so easy and thank you to all my fellow writers for your entries and comments throughout. I have at least two scripts I will be taking forward to competitions out of this with more in my back catalogue just in case.

Just think, you have all proven you can write under tight deadline and specific criteria pressure. If some producer down the line asks you to write a story about a gang of trained bank-robbing chimpanzees and the project is being heavily financed by Nike who want their latest trainers featured predominately, and, oh yeah, it has to be a musical - you will say, "No problem. Thank you, sir. May I have another next week?"

I will miss this, even though it means I can move back to my own projects. The Friday family brainstorming session has become a tradition in our house.

Thanks again to everyone. I look forward to reading what you've all come up with this week.

-Mark  

Wonderful sentiments Mark, it has been a superb challenge and great learning curve.
Kudos to everyone who entered in whatever shape or form.
And to my writing partner, well done with your scripts and thanks for making choosing the items each week an absolute dawdle.

Well done everyone.

Ditto on what’s said. I liked it very much and am going to miss it. We practically wrote an entry in a day, I know I did. Which is wow, new thing to do for me. And with all the criteria to squeeze in - that was different to anything I’ve done in the past.

Still struggling.  First attempt trashed. Starting a second...

Quoted from JEStaats Still struggling.  First attempt trashed. Starting a second...

Mine is running long. Which means what people actually end up reading will be cut badly

But in general this has been a great writers tournament. We should turn this into a board game with ludicrously long turns

I echo previous sentiments... I was struggling with writing in the early stages of the pandemic but the last OWC and this challenge have re-invigorated me.

So thanks Don, thanks Blondie, thanks SS and thanks to all my writer friends on here, a great set of writers!

Quoted from MarkRenshaw Submitted the fifth and final one! Thank you so much, Blondie, for organising this. Thanks to my writing partner for making each week's selection so easy and thank you to all my fellow writers for your entries and comments throughout. I have at least two scripts I will be taking forward to competitions out of this with more in my back catalogue just in case. Thanks again to everyone. I look forward to reading what you've all come up with this week. -Mark

I second that. I didn't think the leftovers were easy, I really had to go outside of the box on it. My entry is submitted.
Full on bonkers.

Now i'm back to revising my older scripts. Which is also crazy stuff.

Last one is proving the hardest!

Are we guessing who wrote what in Round 4?

I'll start with "Well, I Just Had to Laugh."

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Seriously though, thanks Blondie. Though I didn't score well, I feel this challenge did me a world of good in shaking me from my doldrums and showing me that I could write each week, every week. I finally feel confident enough to tackle that feature that I've had in the back of my mind.

And though I won't win this, I'm proud of what I wrote. I wrote from the heart, and I wrote to the theme, and I wrote what I felt was important to me.

Well, except for the bird pecking the face script. That's really not important to me. Blame Blondie for giving me horror and bird feeder. And blame Stevie for liking it.

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AJR

ajr, you need to enter it into a horror shirt comp! It’s a great script. As I said on the thread, I don’t watch horror films (or any films actually lol) but I love reading good horror novels (currently reading The Chalk Man) and yours was ghoulishly awesome.

And yeah the tourney has been great. A year ago I was in the writing doldrums - couldn’t be bothered, too tired, too busy gaming and reading etc. Then I got the idea for my shark feature. That took long months of slog but when I finished it in June I was on a roll and zipped straight into the tourney!  Now I’ve already started writing down ideas and scene outlines for a new feature - ironically a horror zombie one set at Everest Base Camp     Oh wow I can use zombie birds pecking trekker faces!!!!  I was set to write a 40 page script about the Beatles stay at a house in Benedict Canyon in LA in August 1965, but that can be done anytime. Maybe I could do a collab with whoever wrote the Abbey Road one? PM me if you are keen!!!    Cheers all



Thanks Don and Blondie and all you peeps for a cool 6 weeks!