Can you write a script in one week?  Can you write a script on a particular theme or genre in one week?  This is the challenge for you.  On February 5th, 2010 at 10:00 a theme and genre will be posted on this board.  Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to write a 6 to 12 page, properly formatted script on the theme and genre presented.

The Schedule:

2/5  10:00 pm est - theme and genre will be announced
2/12 11:59 pm est - submit your script (you can submit earlier if you wish).
2/14 scripts will be posted without the writer's names on them.
2/21 writers names to be revealed.

The twist this OWC is that one or two scripts will be selected to be turned into a machinima.  

What is a machinima?  See below to give you an idea of what we are talking about.

Nice idea! I skipped the last one (out of laziness, mostly) so I hope to enter something this time round. Hope, but not promise. I might or might not - we'll see...

Interest in these things has grown amazingly even in the 15-or-so months I've been on the boards, so hopefully we'll have a lot of good, enjoyable entries this time round too.

You bewdy! For some reason I thought this was starting Feb 13?  Ripper, something to get stuck into over the weekend!

It's de rigueur to not declare one's intention to participate in the OWC, so I won't. But I'm certainly looking forward it.

That machinima is pretty cool - and nice story, Pia. How long does it take to produce a machinima, approximately?

~Pete

I never participate in these trivial exercises.  HaHa!  Funny...yeah, I'll most likely be in.  Looking forward to it.

Listening to the SS Radio, so I can't check out this machinima thing.

Hope it's a horror based theme, set in WI or CO.

AYYEEE!!!!!    

its a collab, Jeff!   your fave!   this month, Aussies are paired with arizonians!

AAAYYYEEE!!!!!  Yes!!   Let's get started then.  A road trip, zombie, slasher script, all in 12 pages.

Not to mention ubiquitous fab four references (always welcomed in my books, I may add. Post "Help" preferably)

I'm thinking the lyrics to "Tomorrow Never Knows" intermingled with a signature Dreamscale death sequence involving a Converse shoe lace, kiwi flavoured gum, a used cue tip (de-chalked) and a single, slightly overdone poached egg.

I'll leave the rest up to ye, I can say no more...

Col, I'm seriously hopeing you jump in with your own OWC.  It is time, my friend.  Jump in...you'll enjoy it.  It's actually quite the challenge...

I have considered it a number of times, it is a great challenge but I never get anything down on paper in time for it (see my post on the thread "How much time do you spend to write?) I realised a long time ago that I would be absolutely woeful if required to write something within prescribed deadlines, the thought scares me.  

This should be fun, I'm pumped.

Tommy!  You're in?  YES!  I'm pumped as well.  Hope it's a good theme...no more children's or family crap!

Quoted from Dreamscale Hope it's a good theme...no more children's or family crap!

Agreed...but we'll have to wait and see.  

But it is a good one, isn't it?  Don has really been coming up with some great stuff this past year or so.

And I am gonna bend Don's ear until he blocks my account that NON-READERS SHOULD NOT QUALIFY for the big "prize".

If you play in the challenge, read some dang scripts in the challenge!!

Don't post a script if you don't intend to read scripts.  Don't be a leech.

And this was the other reason to start the Script Club a little earlier than planned.

George, I think you guys started it too early...especially now that I know tomorrow is the new OWC!

I still haven't read Armored, and at this point, it doesn't look like I'll be in.  Sorry, cause I really actually wanted to see that movie in the theater, and now that I hear that the script was totally compromised, I'm even more curious to read it and get involved in a discussion.

Doesn't look like it will be happening though.  Sorry, all!