Folks,

Apologies, I need to push out the date to August 8th.  I'm still recovering from Lyme disease.  Although it was caught early, it is still quite debilitating.  In addition, I have a number of submissions from early July that I haven't gotten up, yet.  

Don

Hey, that is really dreadful to hear, Don.  I'm sure I am not the only one sending you all the good Karma I have on-hand for a speedy recovery.

Word up to the rest of you guys sitting on scripts.  Might be better to hold off for a while.

Let Don enjoy an empty in-box for a bit -- and as Balt noted, you will just get buried under the avalanche of new stuff anyways.

Hope everything works out for you, Don. We're all thinking of you!!!

Sorry to hear that Don.

Hope you feel better soon and also hope no one else in the family got sick.

I'll just hold off with the 23 one pagers I had planned to submit...

My mom had lyme disease a few years back and I remember that the recovery time was long.

Take some time, get some rest and best of luck in your recovery.

Take care Don. This is a good time for people to revise their scripts.

Lyme is no joke. I hope you're recovering well and will be back to the site in good spirits sooner rather than later, Don.  

The added time will be good for me, actually. I know I can pump up my script and make it even better now... The dialogue in this script is second to none. The set up and execution is paced with  near perfection. Every 5 min something happens to progress the plot further. It is almost the best script, I believe, I've ever written in terms of structure and content per page... I say "almost" because Coffin Canyon still holds that crown.

Frost Bite is only a short, but it feels like an entire 2 hour/120 page affair by the time you get done with it. I know I'm setting myself up for multiple naysayers with how much hype and anticipation I've put into it, but when you stack up Frost Bite against anything you've read as of late the level of quality and attention to honest dialogue won't compete. It just won't.

I welcome the naysayers... Cos I can take anything thrown at me and walk away smiling. But I honestly feel this is one script where not too many people will have too many things to say about it negatively. Sure you'll have a few... but by and large, people who read it will say -- "I would go see this movie" and that's what's important.

Frost Bite should be made on principal... "ha"

Get well, Don, but take your time. No need to rush anything, your health is the only thing important here.

I can't believe there has been a gripe over the fact that SS submission is closed.

It's a slap to the face of Don and an insult to all the writers who use this section of the site.  

There is a mountain of unproduced scripts here. Do you here me. A MOUNTAIN!

Instead of ringing your hands sweating out when you can showcase your next script, why not dig deep into the pile of scritps and read stuff from the regulars whose stuff you may not have read yet.

I have been here for a few years now and there is a generation of writers here who have never read my features and old shorts.  People like Shelton, Phil and Pia have been here even longer and would have a load of scripts buried deep.

Go read some other peoples stuff you missed and when everything cranks up again you may have some writers who owe you a read and will start with the new script you have uploaded.  

Quoted from tonkatough I can't believe there has been a gripe over the fact that SS submission is closed. It's a slap to the face of Don and an insult to all the writers who use this section of the site.   There is a mountain of unproduced scripts here. Do you here me. A MOUNTAIN! Instead of ringing your hands sweating out when you can showcase your next script, why not dig deep into the pile of scritps and read stuff from the regulars whose stuff you may not have read yet. I have been here for a few years now and there is a generation of writers here who have never read my features and old shorts.  People like Shelton, Phil and Pia have been here even longer and would have a load of scripts buried deep. Go read some other peoples stuff you missed and when everything cranks up again you may have some writers who owe you a read and will start with the new script you have uploaded.

Totally agree. But as a consolation, I perfectly know that some visitors don't read just the new ones. I've been contacted by people who read my shorts written several years ago.

Another problem, when you do a rewrite, your script stays buried and no one knows the rewrite has been submitted unless your warn people. But it is a rewrite of an old script, it seems people don't care. I can't explain why people is so greedy of new scripts... It's a mystery...

Michel

PS: Hold on Don. Health is essential in life. I know what I'm talking about...

Terrible news. I hope you get well soon.

Quoted from tonkatough I have been here for a few years now and there is a generation of writers here who have never read my features and old shorts.  People like Shelton, Phil and Pia have been here even longer and would have a load of scripts buried deep.

And Wesley has been here even longer... hold the applause, please.  

If people really need reads exchange and that way they can make edits before posting a script. Gives you a better chance of posting the best possible version because people don't read twice (Most of the time) if it's not a really short short.

More people would be happy that way and it all evens out.

Plus it would save Don posting, removing, posting new version, removing, posting yet another new version and so on and so forth.

Quoted from Don Folks, Apologies, I need to push out the date to August 8th.  I'm still recovering from Lyme disease.  Although it was caught early, it is still quite debilitating.  In addition, I have a number of submissions from early July that I haven't gotten up, yet.   Don

Sorry to hear that Don. I do hope you get better soon.

Quoted from TT   I can't believe there has been a gripe over the fact that SS submission is closed. It's a slap to the face of Don and an insult to all the writers who use this section of the site.   There is a mountain of unproduced scripts here. Do you here me. A MOUNTAIN!

Not sure who that was directed at. As far as I can see a few folks, myself included, just asked a question.

I think we need to move Balt's promotion of Frost Bite back to the Frost Bite Promotion thread.

Can someone do that?  It does not belong here at all, and will elicit responses, based on the outlandish self promotion alone.

In all honesty though, Balt, I am looking froward to reading it.  I think you need to E-Mail it over to me today.

Don,

Get well soon.  No apologies needed.


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