Ok. I'll schedule this to start a week earlier.  That way we will be mostly done before anyone goes away.

Quoted from Sandra Elstree. The only thing I'm battling with besides time is illness, but God willing, I'm with you- name the time and I will be there: Big smiles!!! Sandra

Sandra...what's up in your life? If you don't want to share here you can always email me...I will keep you in my prayers girl!

~m~

Okay, sounds cool with. I like the idea. And I'm in, i want to participate.

There will a lot of room to explore here in the writing process.

Cheers

Quoted from MBCgirl Sandra...what's up in your life? If you don't want to share here you can always email me...I will keep you in my prayers girl! ~m~

Thank you so much MBCgirl. Auto immune illness. But like I said to Jordon last night, I often have a weird sense of gratefulness because I've learned to see things very differently and have been able to help people that I never would have met otherwise.

I'm thinking of Steven Hawking right now as an example of how human beings, together, can rise above the greatest challenges. With the help of human technology and help from others, he was not only able to live, but to educate the world. Alone, we are nothing, but together we are this magnificent system holding each other up.

It seems that all obstacles, illness or otherwise are just opportunities in disguise. Something to consider as we work on a project with the complexity of a deity like Shiva.

Sandra

Quoted from Sandra Elstree. It seems that all obstacles, illness or otherwise are just opportunities in disguise. Something to consider as we work on a project with the complexity of a deity like Shiva. Sandra

Sorry to use this board for a personal communication   But Sandra is our girl!

Sandra - I agree that obstacles are an opportunity to learn something more in this life...it is a little more difficult to apply that philosophy when we do not feel good.  As I mentioned in a private email - I market healthcare service lines...one of those was wound...and I have to tell you that just a few moments spent in that center...while I was sad for those who had to suffer so much (missing limbs, etc.), I was all the more thankful for my life and health.   As you mentioned...doing something for others, when you yourself don't feel right, has a wonderful medicinal effect.

I'm writing a book about personal struggle...called "Finding Diamonds"...I think it runs in this same vein (it's not a screenplay, but you can read it if you like...I'm on the 7th chapter of 10...a small self help book)

Keep your strength and your faith Miss Sandra...let your light continue to shine! We love what you bring to our creations...and even more now that is true! xo

Blessings
~m~

I had this idea I wanted to run by you all.

I want to add a concept called a MacGuffin.  A MacGuffin is a Hitchcock term for an item you follow through the movie.  The item might or might not have some significance.  

In the game the MacGuffin would be a prop that you come up with and only you and I know about.  Everyone has their own secret MacGuffin and it is up to you whether or not it relates to the plot.  I can use the MacGuffins to keep score.  For example:

You use the MacGuffin - 1 point
You give the MacGuffin to someone else - 5 points to you 1 point to them.
You take someones MacGuffin - 1 point to you 5 points to them.
Someone else uses your MacGuffin 1 point to you 1 point to them.

I'm not entirely certain about the scoring but the above should give a pretty accurate notion of what I'm suggesting.

Example MacGuffins might be: A diary, a pair of eyeglasses, a wedding ring, a chocolate bar, pretty much anything could be a MacGuffin.

I think it would add some extra interest to the game and the story if we included something like this but

A. I'm worried about the concept being too confusing.
B. I'm worried that people will get too absorbed in moving these items around.

What do you think?      

I'm already confused lol. No really sounds like an ok idea. So is the aim of the game to score as many points as you can then?

We've got so many ideas here. So Michael is MacGuffin we're going after? With me it's okay, i have studied it before.

Here is what wikipedia says:

A MacGuffin (sometimes McGuffin) is a plot device that motivates the characters or advances the story, but the details of which are of little or no importance otherwise.

The element that distinguishes a MacGuffin from other types of plot devices is that it is not important what the object specifically is. Anything that serves as a motivation will do. The MacGuffin might even be ambiguous. Its importance is accepted by the story's characters, but it does not actually have any effect on the story. It can be generic or left open to interpretation.

The MacGuffin is common in films, especially thrillers. Commonly, though not always, the MacGuffin is the central focus of the film in the first act, and later declines in importance as the struggles and motivations of characters play out. Sometimes the MacGuffin is all but forgotten by the end of the film.

and more...

The director and producer Alfred Hitchcock popularized both the term "MacGuffin" and the technique. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, Hitchcock explained the term in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University: "[We] have a name in the studio, and we call it the 'MacGuffin.' It is the mechanical element that usually crops up in any story. In crook stories it is almost always the necklace and in spy stories it is most always the papers."

Interviewed in 1966 by François Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock illustrated the term "MacGuffin" with this story:

    "It might be a Scottish name, taken from a story about two men in a train. One man says, 'What's that package up there in the baggage rack?' And the other answers, 'Oh that's a McGuffin.' The first one asks, 'What's a McGuffin?' 'Well,' the other man says, 'It's an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands.' The first man says, 'But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands,' and the other one answers 'Well, then that's no McGuffin!' So you see, a McGuffin is nothing at all."

I think this clears it pretty well...

Sounds interesting but it might confuse things, and as mcornetto said, people might get too absorbed in the items and the game would just revolve around them.

It could work though...

Sounds like a great idea Michael.  A good idea to tally a score.