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Pale Yellow
Posted: August 12th, 2018, 5:52pm Report to Moderator
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I don’t know why but this OWC seemed to have thrown up the most divisive set of opinions, not on the scripts themselves, but on whether they complied.




The last challenge I was in... I was accused of cheating... so I bet I asked three questions BEFORE I wrote mine this time... I HATE to be accused of that. If the leader of the challenge says it's ok.. then it's ok... But I dunno... I think people get blown out of proportion with the parameters. The challenges I do with NYCMidnight are a little less vague. They give an object that must be in the script...a genre.. and a location(where the script must mostly take place).

I read this one as the weather would have to be part of the theme... so my script was the result of the weather... yet I didn't say too much about it after the intro.

I didn't knock anyone on the weather thing in my voting. It was too gray a line to decide if they used it proper or not.. so that didn't effect my voting at all.
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The last challenge I was in... I was accused of cheating...

What the...? How dare they. I don't even understand how a person could cheat. It's not like you can steal the answers from Don, or make cupcakes in exchange for votes.  


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Much thanks to Pia and Don for running the challenge and a very unique one at that.  This was very well run and moderated.

I have two minor thoughts  for future challenges ( and there easy for me to make since I don't have to do any of the work on it)

Rules/Parameter Clarifications

In all of the OWCs we start with a thread that reflects the theme/rules of a particular challenge. That thread grows with all sorts of comments to be a 14 or 15 page thread with more than 200 comments. Generally, buried among those will be 3 or 4 questions related to the challenge rules/parameters and an answer to the particular question. In this one by way of example there were clarifications related to hemisphere, budget, dialogue and the degree to which weather should be a part of the story - all answered completely.

The problem is that the questions and answers are buried in this enormous thread.  I saw them all because I am a retired fok with time on his hands. Not sure everyone has that same luxury and could easily miss rule clarifications.

Long winded way of saying that it may be advantageous to have one separate thread on the challenge rules/questions and answers and one separate thread for general discussion.

Voting restricted to participants

Would like to see this expanded to non-participants.  There have been several OWCs where I couldn't participate. Since I could not vote I refrained from making comments even though had several entries.  Didn't feel it quite right to state my opinion on a script if I wasn't going to vote. Maybe that's just me. Anyway, I think it would be nice to expand voting to non-participants. Peeps could email the Administrator and say I'm not participating but am going to read and would like a ballot.

Just food for thought.


Good ideas! Should be made sticky threads! As far as the voting qualifications go, I have no problems with it. IMO, if someone, especially a regular member, has read at least half the scripts, I don't see why that person cannot vote. Especially if this voting system used here is is used. Voting only for your favorite is a bad voting system in my book because then number of votes matter while this way we used this time will give averages instead.

I'm glad most of you liked the challenge. It was IMO, closer to the original OWCs here and the MP challenges.

I have no idea when Don will post the results. If he sent the votes to me now, I could easily figure it out and post it, but I think he has been busy this weekend with other stuff.    



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Rules/Parameter Clarifications

In all of the OWCs we start with a thread that reflects the theme/rules of a particular challenge. That thread grows with all sorts of comments...

The problem is that the questions and answers are buried in this enormous thread.  I saw them all because I am a retired fok with time on his hands. Not sure everyone has that same luxury and could easily miss rule clarifications.

Long winded way of saying that it may be advantageous to have one separate thread on the challenge rules/questions and answers and one separate thread for general discussion.

Voting restricted to participants

Would like to see this expanded to non-participants.  There have been several OWCs where I couldn't participate. Since I could not vote I refrained from making comments even though had several entries.  Didn't feel it quite right to state my opinion on a script if I wasn't going to vote. Maybe that's just me. Anyway, I think it would be nice to expand voting to non-participants. Peeps could email the Administrator and say I'm not participating but am going to read and would like a ballot.

Just food for thought.

Agree. Again.   I do think some people didn't see some important clarifications further into the thread. But then I question why call it Summer Heat, Winter Cold, in the first place, if it's not going to have specific bearing. That said I don't think it's had any bearing on people voting for their standout scripts.

As to your other point - I gave feedback on eleven scripts even though I did not enter and thus did not qualify to vote. I figure the more feedback and general consensus a writer gets, the better.


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Libby, funny thing that you didn't enter. I gave permission to another northern hemisphere writer to write a cold weather script just so you wouldn't be the only one submitting one, lol!


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Oh, well that was good of you, Pia! I drafted three but they didn't cut it imho. I might post at least one of them up later.


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Oh, well that was good of you, Pia! I drafted three but they didn't cut it imho. I might post at least one of them up later.


Thanks, Libby for reading and posting.

I bet you reviewed lot more than many peeps who actually entered, and that is bad on the entrants, but GREAT on you!  

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Thanks, Jeff. Disappointed I didn't get one up but I was really interested to see what people came up with and there were definitely a few gems in the mix. The six pagers were easy to get through.

I think we should consider the shorter page count for more of these challenges given the pretty consistent high turnout.


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Thanks, Jeff. Disappointed I didn't get one up but I was really interested to see what people came up with and there were definitely a few gems in the mix. The six pagers were easy to get through.

I think we should consider the shorter page count for more of these challenges given the pretty consistent high turnout.


Yep. Would not have entered without short page count. And if ever entered again I would always keep mine in under 3/4 pages - no time for anything else! But i’d still be put off by not having time to read other long scripts....
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Reef Dreamer
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The last challenge I was in... I was accused of cheating... so I bet I asked three questions BEFORE I wrote mine this time... I HATE to be accused of that. If the leader of the challenge says it's ok.. then it's ok... But I dunno... I think people get blown out of proportion with the parameters. The challenges I do with NYCMidnight are a little less vague. They give an object that must be in the script...a genre.. and a location(where the script must mostly take place).

I read this one as the weather would have to be part of the theme... so my script was the result of the weather... yet I didn't say too much about it after the intro.

I didn't knock anyone on the weather thing in my voting. It was too gray a line to decide if they used it proper or not.. so that didn't effect my voting at all.


Sounds tough  - I also react badly when accused of taking liberties. Probably why this one bothered me even though my scripts weren’t up to scratch.



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The Elevator Most Belonging To Alice - Semi Final Bluecat, Runner Up Nashville
Inner Journey - Page Awards Finalist - Bluecat semi final
Grieving Spell - winner - London Film Awards.  Third - Honolulu
Ultimate Weapon - Fresh Voices - second place
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Thanks, Jeff. Disappointed I didn't get one up but I was really interested to see what people came up with and there were definitely a few gems in the mix. The six pagers were easy to get through.

I think we should consider the shorter page count for more of these challenges given the pretty consistent high turnout.


Thanks for reading Libby

I agree the more people involved the better, especially neutrals


My scripts  HERE

The Elevator Most Belonging To Alice - Semi Final Bluecat, Runner Up Nashville
Inner Journey - Page Awards Finalist - Bluecat semi final
Grieving Spell - winner - London Film Awards.  Third - Honolulu
Ultimate Weapon - Fresh Voices - second place
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Agree. Again.   I do think some people didn't see some important clarifications further into the thread. But then I question why call it Summer Heat, Winter Cold, in the first place, if it's not going to have specific bearing. That said I don't think it's had any bearing on people voting for their standout scripts.

As to your other point - I gave feedback on eleven scripts even though I did not enter and thus did not qualify to vote. I figure the more feedback and general consensus a writer gets, the better.


Thanks - there were a couple of important clarifications in the thread:


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There should be no formatting for dialogue. That's a given. However, we do a lot of communication these days via emails and texts and such. If you need to use some way to show a message I would use it very sparingly. The more you use, the more people will think you're pushing it or even cheating, so I imagine that will be reflected in the scores. I have no problem with someone receiving a text or an email, just not whole conversations.


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The heat or cold should have some effect on the story or characters. It does not have to be about the weather. However, simply writing that the sun beats down on the desert or that heat shimmers off the blacktop is not enough.


They were both very valuable insights.  To me it meant that non-dialogue based communication was fine - I several scripts that had communication in them (a whisper, a text, etc) and thankfully in all cases it was used "sparingly". Thought all were fine in this regard.

In terms of the weather - I can only assume that some peeps maybe didn't see the clarification as there were some where the heat or cold did not have an impact on the story or the characters.

Alas - as it turns out none of the ones that I ultimately liked or didn't like had no relation to the rules. i.e., my votes would have turned out pretty much exactly the same.

Wish you could have voted as you liked mine and I think I needed it. As a note, had you hated it I would have championed the inverse   




My Scripts can all be seen here:

http://dlambertson.wix.com/scripts
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This was fun.  Even though I had put in a lot of hours at work, I wanted to get in on this one.

After coming up with an idea on Wednesday, it didn't leave much time for writing after working my 9 hour shifts on Thursday and Friday, but I did it anyway, and it showed a need for time and a rewrite.  

Usually Jeff hates my OWC entries. This time he still didn't like it, but I did make him laugh.

It was fun and got me interested in writing again.

thanks Don and Pia.

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