Jeff, we should go together to the movies sometime! We're speaking the same language when it comes to horror. Not sure I'll have anything finished by Friday, but I might try. After all, I like scaring the crap out of children...

Quoted from Grandma Bear Jeff, we should go together to the movies sometime! We're speaking the same language when it comes to horror. Not sure I'll have anything finished by Friday, but I might try. After all, I like scaring the crap out of children...

So it was YOU!!!!!!!  

Sandra

Dumb question...
Does it have to be strictly at a Festival??

Genre: Family Horror
Theme: At this year's Halloween Festival, strange things are happening.

While the theme is that strange things are happening at the festival, it doesn't say the script has to occur at the festival - though in someway the festival should be incorporated enough to qualify as the theme.

You won't be disqualified for not writing about the theme or not using the genre - however - you will probably be bombarded with the fact that you didn't in your review thread.

Quoted from Valkyrie Dumb question... Does it have to be strictly at a Festival??

There are no dumb questions. Whatever you deem a "Festival" to be-- that is a "Festival". But many here will disagree with that interpretation and say that it must be like a Granville Island Market. (Jordon knows) ... and that's OK with me too, because it brings The Grocery in Thief all the more alive to me.  

Sandra

Well I've wrote a script (or have I) and frankly I hate it (if I had wrote one).  I'm struggling for time do anything with it (if I have something) and the paranoia of submitting an awful piece (if I have one) is killing me.  Is anyone else struggling to write a 'family horror'?

(The above statement, in no way suggests the memeber has indeed wrote, or attempted to write, a script for the October One Week Challenge).

OK, Pia, it's a date!  We'll have to go Dutch, though.

If I were writing an OWC script this time around, I would imagine that I would be struggling as well, but since I'm not, it's a mute point.

Eh, if you've written something - I'd submit it. If you're finding this genre hard, then submit what you've written and read the feedback you get from it. That way, you'll be more equipped in writing that genre.

I'm not exactly happy with my piece, but I'm going to submit it nonetheless. See what I'm doing right and wrong, etc.

If I had written a script for this OWC that I wasn't happy with, I'd submit it and then threaten all the readers, that if they didn't like it, and write negative comments, I'd sick Baltis on them. If that didn't work, I'd threaten them with Stevie or Tommy.

But since I'm not writing an OWC script this time around, it means that I won't be unhappy with it, and I won't have to worry about submitting it or sicking Baltis, Stevie, or Tommy on anyone.

Quoted from Split Second Eh, if you've written something - I'd submit it.

I disagree.  I would never submit something that I did not think was good.

Too often people are too quick to slap any old thing up here on the boards.

There may be 40 submissions to read this time.  Perhaps more.

If you know what you have written is not your best work -- or even good work -- please do not waste people's time with it.

Taking what Bert said 1 step further...if you don't think I'll like it, please don't submit it.

If there are more than 4 mistakes, please don't submit it.

If there aren't any decapitations, please don't submit it.

If there is any comedy, please don't submit it.

I had absolutely no problem with this OWC as I dislike violent and gory movies anyway and prefer an older (tamer, if you will) horror film - I lean more towards psychological horror if anything, where the things unseen are by far the more frightening.

Anyway, for better or for for worse, mine is now submitted.

It'll be interesting to see how much of a variety of different approaches are taken to this OWC. I'll be attempting to read and comment on as many as I can - I did embarrassingly few of the August one, so want to try to make up for it.

Isn't it all too exciting!

Hey Jeff, to answer your questions

Probably

No

Yes

So that's a 'don't submit it' then lol.

i had mine half done then got stuck really bad with the ending. Well, i could've finished it but it would've been 20 pages.
I've been really sick the last 2 days and thought i might have to not submit.
But feeling a little better today and had a new idea. I can salvage what i have and go with a new slant.
Half the problem has been thinking of the adult one i'm gonna put up as a normal script. I have it all written in my head right now, maybe 30 pages or so.
Some of the SS crew get a guernsey in this, so LOOK OUT!

It's not that I don't like what I've written, I'm just not sure it's a great script. Then again, I don't really think I can write a great script yet. I'm going to submit it, because that's the only way I'm ever going to learn. I've never had a go at this genre before, and I enjoyed writing so I want to hear what people think. Sorry if it came out any other way.