Hello to my writing friends down under.

Imagine Impact is focusing exclusively on Australia this go 'round. Bad for me. Good for you!

This is a great opportunity with money attached.

I highly recommend Australian writers give this a hard look!

Good luck and keep us posted if you apply!

https://www.imagine-impact.com/accelerator/australia

The application is intense, but if you know your project inside and out, it won't be a problem.

Just saw your email and came straight here.

I'm in, let's do this!

Will be speaking to you more via PM... incoming.

Quoted from PKCardinal The application is intense, but if you know your project inside and out, it won't be a problem.

I've lived and breathed this damn thing for over 3 years

Good luck to all my Aussie friends!

Good luck, Warren!

Quoted from PKCardinal Hello to my writing friends down under. Imagine Impact is focusing exclusively on Australia this go 'round. Bad for me. Good for you! This is a great opportunity with money attached. I highly recommend Australian writers give this a hard look! Good luck and keep us posted if you apply! https://www.imagine-impact.com/accelerator/australia The application is intense, but if you know your project inside and out, it won't be a problem.

You beat me to it! I got the email last night and came right here to post. Good luck, Warren, and to anyone else applying.

And, yes, the application can be a bit frustrating.

Does going to Outback regularly count!

Quoted from Warren Just saw your email and came straight here. I'm in, let's do this! Will be speaking to you more via PM... incoming.

Check your email. Sent you a bunch of info from previous applications.

Good luck to you! You'd make an excellent choice for their program. Plus, I can live vicariously through you, so that helps me.

Quoted from PKCardinal Check your email. Sent you a bunch of info from previous applications. Good luck to you! You'd make an excellent choice for their program. Plus, I can live vicariously through you, so that helps me.

Thanks mate, all received. I'm excited to get the process started.

And thanks all for the encouragement.

Any other Aussies going to have a crack?

Man, the thought of submitting a video of myself talking HORRIFIES me.

The cringe factor will be long forgotten when you make it over the line.

It's all about the pitch and sell these days.
Just do some prep and go for it, Ben!

Yeah, yeah, I know.

P.S 15,000 dollars plus an additional 5,000 if you're more than 80km outside Melbourne (which I am) seems like an insane amount of money. Am I calculating that wrong? Because that's way more than I make in my normal job (a 9-5 that requires a bachelor's degree). I'd considering applying for the money alone (mostly joking).

And so it begins...

Good luck to any other Aussies that are going to have a crack!

This isn't easy. I can write a script, but answering questions about it is another thing all together. I don't think I'm a good enough writer to convey my thoughts in this way... It's doing my head in already.

Warren, you'll do fine, I'm sure, cause you know your script inside out.

I agree it is a different kind of writing when doing these types of applications.
Good luck!

Quoted from Warren This isn't easy. I can write a script, but answering questions about it is another thing all together. I don't think I'm a good enough writer to convey my thoughts in this way... It's doing my head in already.

You got this. Don't make it too big. Simple answers about a project you know inside and out.

Quoted from LC Warren, you'll do fine, I'm sure, cause you know your script inside out. I agree it is a different kind of writing when doing these types of applications. Good luck!

Thanks, Libby. I'm slowly pushing through, but when I read back my answers I can't help but cringe.

Quoted from PKCardinal You got this. Don't make it too big. Simple answers about a project you know inside and out.

Thank, mate. Might bounce a few things off you a bit later in the process.

Quoted from Warren Thank, mate. Might bounce a few things off you a bit later in the process.

Happy to help.

Just remember... I'm 0 for 2 in attempts to get in so far.

Finished some rewrites on my script (thanks Dave!), and have done just over half of the application. Will try knock over the rest tomorrow and then attempt to make my application video.

Quoted from Warren Finished some rewrites on my script (thanks Dave!), and have done just over half of the application. Will try knock over the rest tomorrow and then attemp to make my application video.

What's with all these stupid links to songs? Why not just write what you want? I never click them, I just read the title. Does anybody actually click them and listen or do you just read the title as I do?

I'm genuinely interested. I imagine it takes a little bit longer to post a stupid link like that than it does to type four words... in this case, 'You can do it'.

Quoted from DustinBowcot What's with all these stupid links to songs? Why not just write what you want? I never click them, I just read the title. Does anybody actually click them and listen or do you just read the title as I do? I'm genuinely interested. I imagine it takes a little bit longer to post a stupid link like that than it does to type four words... in this case, 'You can do it'.

Fuck me this is Grade A cantankerous and needy.

Here's a song for you.

You're not original... you're merely copying what others have done because you think it's cool. It's a little bit pathetic, really, from a grown man. I'm assuming you're a grown man?

Quoted from DustinBowcot You're not original... you're merely copying what others have done because you think it's cool. It's a little bit pathetic, really, from a grown man. I'm assuming you're a grown man?

It's true, I'm a grown man, which is why I'm not engaging in whatever this is.

Have a good one.

I’m oh for too. But it’s worth the try.  Of course not being from Australia saves me rejection this time

Quoted from Andrew

Cheers, I can do it and I have done it

Application submitted. Just spent half of Sunday feeling like a complete tool talking into a camera, but it's done.

I found the questions incredibly difficult, yes I know the story inside out but at the end of the day I just write stories that either work or they don't. I don't think I've ever really dissected themes or goals or anything to this extent. I just know what I want to say and I say it.

Any who... It's done. I've seen some of the people who I'll be going up against and I really don't stand a snowflake's chance in hell but it was a pretty good experience looking at my script in a completely new way.

Thanks, Paul for constantly pushing me to do this.

Quoted from Warren Application submitted. Just spent half of Sunday feeling like a complete tool talking into a camera, but it's done. I found the questions incredibly difficult, yes I know the story inside out but at the end of the day I just write stories that either work or they don't. I don't think I've ever really dissected themes or goals or anything to this extent. I just know what I want to say and I say it. Any who... It's done. I've seen some of the people who I'll be going up against and I really don't stand a snowflake's chance in hell but it was a pretty good experience looking at my script in a completely new way. Thanks, Paul for constantly pushing me to do this.

Congrats, man, and good luck.

Out of interest, do you think that deep dive on themes will inform how you write going forward? I've always found those thematic discussions some of the most interesting, and often think backwards when writing (theme first, story second), which is the wrong way to do it, but is the way my mind works instinctively.

Quoted from Andrew Congrats, man, and good luck. Out of interest, do you think that deep dive on themes will inform how you write going forward? I've always found those thematic discussions some of the most interesting, and often think backwards when writing (theme first, story second), which is the wrong way to do it, but is the way my mind works instinctively.

Yeah I think it probably will. I've always just put a story on the page and then thought about the themes and what it all means afterwards. There are a lot of common themes in my writing but I've never written with them at the forefront of the story I was telling. It's probably a really bad way to write, but that's what I've done in the past.

That's a no for me, but it was probably the best rejection letter/video ever.

Any Aussies we know make it through to the interview stage?

Aw, shoot. Was really rooting hard.

Glad you jumped in, though. Hope the process had value for you.

Quoted from Warren That's a no for me, but it was probably the best rejection letter/video ever. Any Aussies we know make it through to the interview stage?

Darn - think they missed a good one, mate.

Oh well.

Thanks, guys. It was a pretty good experience.

Just a heads up... Imagine Impact Australia 2 is now open for entries.