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If this information is already out there, please feel free to verbally abuse me and put me on your shit-list. I have been looking.
Is there any scientific or pre-determined schedule for OWC? I would love to participate, but, as luck would have it, I found out about this site a week after the last one.
I obviously don't run these so I have no clue how much work goes into putting one together, but it just seems like a great way to engage the community and keep your writing sharp. I would love to see this [sometimes] friendly competition happen more often.
If anyone could point me in the direction of a potential schedule for these, I would hate to accidentally miss the next one.
Again, sorry if this has already been asked/answered. I've been looking around the boards for the past few days and haven't been able to find anything.
- Felipe D. Machado
'Artist' is not a term you should use to refer to yourself. Let others, and your work, do it for you.
...please feel free to verbally abuse me and put me on your shit-list. I have been looking.
Looking to get on my shit list? Consider yourself placed.
I kid.
There are generally about four per year -- approximately quarterly -- but none of that is written in stone, as it is a bit of work for Don and they occur at his convenience.
Ryan's guess is probably pretty close, but there is also plenty of notice that they are coming up if you keep your eyes peeled.
There are no winners in the OWC. It's a challenge only and Don only gave mugs away recently to the "reader's choice" scripts. Phil, Cindy and I got them for the Gimme Credit comp.
The OWC is usually run in January, April, july and October. -11 was different, but....
I have a brilliant twist on the challenge. Hopefully, Don will let me do the next one.
Phil
Let me guess...we all (as opposed to the small, un-named minority) use scripts we wrote prior to the OWC and modify them to fit the challenge, and then act like we wrote and conceived them in the 1 week limit.
Let's write a story how people with SS mugs start disappearing one by one. Everyone assumes a jealous member without a mug has done something unthinkable. A list of suspects is compiled, an investigation launched. But where are the bodies?
Maybe it turns out the mug holders have secretly gathered for what is assumed to be a nefarious project. Homeland Security is alerted, orphans are rounded up and brought to Jeff's house to be slaughtered.
Turns out the mug holders were just planning the SS New Years party!
Sorry, I had beers and coffee at dinner. Messes with my head.
I would do one, but I just don't have time. As it is, I have scripts I want to start, but can't at the moment. I love starting a brand new script! There's something cool about creating new characters, and there's that part of your mind that says, "maybe this time I'll get it right!"
I started writing about a year ago, and had 5 features by August. But I had learned enough by then to know they were all pretty bad. So I decided to rewrite them, in some cases more or less from scratch as new stories with mostly the same characters and premise. It's taking a lot of time. I'm hoping by Feb or March I can start something new. That's how long it's taking me.
But I will take time off for the OWC, whenever that is! That's become a good little break from whatever I'm working on.