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Thanks to everyone to participated in the October One Week Challenge this month. The OWC isn't a contest, however I recognize that as writers, it helps to fill out your CV if you have a contest win or even are selected as a finalist. I asked each of the participants to read three scripts and select the one script they enjoyed the most. I then asked a "Star Chamber" (actually a Septagon Chamber) of writers to select their faviorate scripts. Between those two lists and my list of favoriates five scripts were selected. I then sent those five scripts to iScript where they made the final selection.
As always, thanks everyone for participating. I truly enjoyed reading each and every script submitted.
Now, with that being said, Listen to Gourdy by Antonio Gangemi & Aimee Parrott (Ereckson)
Note: the audio recording is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivitives3.0 license. In English that means, you can share it with whomever you wish. You can't charge for it and you can't change it.
- Don
The iScript.com selectee
How To Carve A Pumpkin by Sean Elwood (thedeadwalk2nite) - Short, Comedy - A racist, degrading, over-the-top, 50s-style "How To" video on how to carve a jack-o-lantern. <12 pages - pdf, format
Webmaster's choice
Baxter's Wish by Mike Shelton (Patrick Michael) - Short, Comedy - When two stoners discover a magical, talking pumpkin, they learn that the life of a pumpkin is never easy and the only way for one to achieve a proper death is to be baked into delicious pumpkin pies. < 12 pages - pdf, format
Enough is Enough! by Elisabeth Dubois (Bobby) - Short, Comedy - Three young children from a poor single parent country family, are heart broken when their mother uses the only pumpkin they have to make a meekly meal; they decide to steal one as not to miss out on Halloween. < 12 pages - pdf, format
The Strange Prophecies of the Green Pumpkin by T. J. Hundtofte (Mary El) - Short, Comedy - On the night of Halloween, a precocious 8-year-old girl unwittingly precipitates what appears to be the end of times. <12 pages - pdf, format
Revenge of the Pumpkins by Michael Cornetto (Erica) - Short, Comedy - You can eat them in pies, <br>they have candle-lit eyes and they'll get their revenge to the children's surprise. <12 pages - pdf, format
Tony & Aimee, Like our boys over there in Fenway Park, great job on Gourdy!
Lots of great and memorable stories and characters in this challenge, would love to see the whole batch set up in some kind of bizarre pumpkin oriented film festival.
Well done by everyone involved, and thanks for all the lessons learned.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently - Dove Chocolate Wrapper