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Wow! This is exciting! The loglines all sound so great!
I can't wait until tomorrow to start reading them.
I'm off to work right now. Darn it.
Cindy
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Yes, thank you. I thought I asked that on another board. I didn't know this one was here.
40... that doesn't seem too bad.
Brian,
You did mention on another board. I moved some stuff around thinking I'll organize everything to make sense. However, this made no sense to anyone but me.
Forty scripts is over the top considering that the challenge was advertised to only SimplyScripts Discussion Board members and MoviePoetmembers.
For those who care, the record for an OWC 45
I think I mentioned already that this seemed like a family reunion.
Quoted from mcornetto
Already got the theme...
But I'm not going to tell you...
I'll just leave you hanging...
Michaell,
You really cut it to the quick on this one. You were the first to guess, albeit obliquely, the pseudonym theme which was suggested by Darren (aka DarrenJamesSeeley).
Most names (other than those provided by OWC writers his/her selves) are known executioners (mostly European).
Thanks to all that played along. Extra point to those folks who know but were able to be subtle about it.
You really cut it to the quick on this one. You were the first to guess, albeit obliquely, the pseudonym theme which was suggested by Darren (aka DarrenJamesSeeley).
Most names (other than those provided by OWC writers his/her selves) are known executioners (mostly European).
Thanks to all that played along. Extra point to those folks who know but were able to be subtle about it.
Don
Don
Do I get an extra point on top of the extra point?
Thanks to all that played along. Extra point to those folks who know but were able to be subtle about it.
Don
I should get a bonus point for figuring out that the Son of Babara MacDonald L. was synonymous for John D. McDonald who wrote "The Executioners" aka Cape Fear.
I didn't think I was going to participate as I had just started a project that I really wanted to keep working on. But then I decided why not take a day off from it and write one? If that sounds naive...yes, guilty as charged.
Writing the story took substantially less than a day, but tweaking it during the weak certainly becomes a distraction. And then there are the days lost to reading the stories carefully and commenting. So this definitely set back the timetable for my project by at least a week. However....it was more than worth it.
As a new writer, I had never written a short. But the experience was invaluable for several reasons. For one thing, a lot of what happens in a feature happens in a short, but in a more focused way. Seems to me what you learn you apply to features. Also, the contest is a great way to get multiple people to discuss your work, the only way to get better. And reading all the other stories and sharing the comments is like a crash course in scripting. I learned as much about formatting and other aspects to writing in the last week as in the previous months.
So I raise my glass for those who ran this and those who participated. Cheers!
As far as the stories, I am not sure anyone hit it out of the park, in my opinion. Some could be close after rewrites. The Captive is possibly a home run for me, depending on how certain questions I have are answered. The short about Shark Tooth was extremely well written, especially the dialogue, which was simply amazing in my estimation. The story itself did not blow me away, but the writing did. And the story about the guy who faced a captured creature on a boat, and who had paid a high price to face that creature, was a great effort, though it needs major surgery to work.
There were stories that were incredibly well written but that had logic gaps, or lacked development, or thematic content. And of course there were those where the opposite holds true.
I don't know how the process works, but I look forward to seeing the rewrites, watching some of the stories with potential develop. Again, thanks to everyone!
Now I'm even more curious! I'm afarid I'm not on here everyday, so it goes over my head and I'm just not ignorant enough to poke my nose into other peoples business. Better just to forget it and move on then.
There once was a Godly man, Who like Jesus, said, I am Then given a taint He said thank God I ain't And succumbed to likings of Sam.