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I will be working "Christmas" here and might be slow to start with the reads, but I will be reading them.
My apologies now, if for some reason any bold font turns up when you open it. I've spoken with my husband about this and he says it's got something to do with other people's computers and how their settings are.
This has been confirmed to me by Rob, who said, when he was at work, and opened the Bloomb Thicket script it was all bolded, but at home, it opened fine in normal font.
Also apologies for any action in dialogue. I tried to get them all. I thought I did, but going through it again, I've caught one at least.
Right now though I'm going to congratulate everyone who went through this. It really is very difficult. Especially if you're new. And then too, even if you're an old timer, you have a higher bar for yourself so it's just as hard.
And my script's submitted! Two days late, only 84 pages (6 pages short of the minimum page count I set, but still the longest screenplay I've ever written) and most likely rubbish, but there you go. It's done.
Now I can fill you in on why I suddenly changed my mind n'all that (I've been given permission it reveal all). Well, minutes after I said I was dropping out of the challenge I received this PM, menacingly entitled, Finish Your Script.
Jon
You kicked it off, you need to finish. I'll hold off posting the 7wc scripts until tomorrow night 12/22. For crap or for whatever, you need to push your baby out. That is what the challenge is about. If I don't get a script from you by midnight, 12/22 none of the other seven week scripts will be posted.
Don
Not knowing whether he was bluffing or not (I rather suspect he was), I suddenly had an extra incentive to finish - I had to save the challenge. Whether it was a genuine threat or not was academic, actually; personal intervention from Don was enough to show me how silly it was to come so far only to fail. The added thought of having the challenge halted for everyone else only served to reinforce my desire to finish. In fact, of course, that must have been Don's idea - to give me one final, badly-needed, steel-toed kick up the backside. The result is that I wrote 14 pages over the next 30 hours and managed to finish an 84 page script (pleading for a 2 hour extension along the way, to which I got the wonderful reply: 'I will wait').
Yes, I was 26 hours past the deadline. Yes, I'm 6 pages short. But you know what? Thanks in part to Don himself, I finished, I can say I've written a screenplay that is within spitting distance of being feature-length, and I can look forward to reading the other scripts knowing I managed to produce something myself. It may be nearly 8 o'clock in the morning, I may have just pulled an all-nighter and a 9-hour work day may be rapidly approaching, and because the script is very much a first draft it may end up being torn apart (particularly by Balt - nervous about that review already!), but you know what? Right now, I feel bloody brilliant.
Thanks for coming along for the ride, guys. 8 entries in the end - not bad, eh? Let's move onto Phase 3 - Reviewing the Scripts (Phase 1 was Picking the Theme, Phase 2 Writing the Scripts) and end this 7WC on a high!
Jonny, that was the most inspiring post I've read for months! The whole post should be on 'Quote of the Day'! Wow, it was like, your 'Henry V' moment...
As I've said before, YOU were the impetus for this. YOU deserve the credit, mate!! It's been fantastic and I would love to try it again, with, perhaps a more specific theme.
Um, and I just want to remind folks that my script isn't anything Christmasy. I mentioned it on this thread a couple of weeks back, but it proably got buried. The story was originally set at Christmas but became unworkable because of the weather. Not the weather here - hot - but the weather in the script setting would've intruded too much on the story. Thank you and cheers all.
Jonny, that was the most inspiring post I've read for months! The whole post should be on 'Quote of the Day'! Wow, it was like, your 'Henry V' moment...
I agree with all that. Feel free to add.
Been watching this thread without comment but with interest over the last few weeks. For those of you who've submitted - well done. I'll be reading as much as I can over Christmas.
Not knowing whether he was bluffing or not (I rather suspect he was), I suddenly had an extra incentive to finish - I had to save the challenge. Whether it was a genuine threat or not was academic, actually; personal intervention from Don was enough to show me how silly it was to come so far only to fail.
You never can tell with Don, can you? I wouldn't put it past him to hold out and wait.
Either way, if this was your first completed screenplay, Jonny, then congrats. The deadline is what did it for you and sometimes that's what it takes. I know when I suggested this type of challenge, the goal was not necessarily to have a production worthy draft, but just a completed draft of some kind. If it's crap, guess what? You'll rewrite it. I've rewritten my first screenplay probably 6 times to date and it's finally to a presentable, acceptable point. And since you've done one, the next one will be that much easier.
Well done to everyone who successfully completed this challenge. We'll have to do it again sometime...
Well, minutes after I said I was dropping out of the challenge I received this PM, menacingly entitled, Finish Your Script.
Ouch! When the big man talks - you listen.
George, Bert, Mike, W, you've been around for a while now (no, I'm not calling you guys old - except Bert obviously) but do Don himself write screenplays?
I could ask him myself but...I'm, like, afraid to.
Down in the hole / Jesus tries to crack a smile / Beneath another shovel load
Don has been dangling the carrot of script(s) he's written for some time, but he won't tell anyone which one(s) is his. I've made some guesses in the past, but he neither confirmed nor denied.
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