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Your task will be to recreate an urban legend in any way you see fit. This could be any urban legend in the world, no matter how ridiculous or impossible. Please note that you are not creating a new urban legend, rather you're putting your own unique spin on an existing one.
T-minus 171 hours until your OWC script is due.
Topic: Urban Legends.
Genre: Open.
You have seven days to write a screenplay between 5 and 12 pages. The screenplay must be properly formatted and in PDF format. The scripts are due on Friday, February 13th at 11:59PM EST and must be submitted to: SimplyScripts.Com/OWC..
There will be a Writers' Choice wherein the participants (and only the participants) will be asked to select the three scripts they liked the best.
Timeline:
February 6th at 9:00PM EST - Theme and Genre announced.
February 13th at 11:59PM EST - Scripts are due.
February 27th at 5:00PM EST - Names and writer's choice revealed.
The Rules:
Your story must revolve around an existing urban legend. The urban legend shouldn't just be background noise, it should be the basis for your script.
There is no genre restriction.
I will allow you to go slightly over or under the page limits I have set. Some stories need a little more, some need a little less. I'm a reasonable person and am not tied too closely to rules but don't piss me off. If I say the limit is 12 pages and you submit a 25-page script, that will be a bit irritating. Just try and be close, one way or the other.
Jargon:
5 - 12 pages.
Properly formatted & saved as a PDF file.
This isn't a contest. There are no prizes.
Free to submit.
One entry per person.
No pissers, please.
You can revise your script as many times as you wish up until 11:59PM EST on February 13th.
Participants are strongly encouraged to read and comment/review on the scripts submitted. Seriously, if other people take the time to read them and you submitted, you can too.
Do not put your real name on your script. However, please use your real name when submitting your script. (After the challenge closes you can either have your script removed or resubmit with your script with your name on it.
Before anybody says anything, before the idea fully came to fruition, Don had told me that we had previously done a One Week Challenge that dealt with urban legends. However, I'm not a big fan of genre restrictions (just my opinion), so I thought it might be different this time if it were a similar topic with no genre restrictions. Hence... this. Hope you all enjoy and have a lot of fun with it.
And, remember, if you'd like to reserve a specific urban legend (something you really want), PM me and let me know which one it is that you're interested in.
To send a private message, click on my name to the left of this message. Then, on that page, look to the right side where it says, "Send a Private Message". Good luck and have fun.
It's true, Libby. Normally it starts at midnight but I would not have been available then to put it up so missing the start of your own OWC is kind of a dick move. As a result, I consulted with Don to move it up a couple hours. Think of it as three extra writing hours. =)
Hmm, I thought most urban legends were 'horror'. Suppose not.
Because they once were, do they have to be for all time? You're smart, you're clever and you're a writer. Surely, you can think of something else... =)
Are you saying if we reserve a specific urban legend, no one else can do it?
No. However, if I get 20 messages from people all asking to do the same one, I'm going to have them select another so that the readers don't have to endure 20 scripts of the same thing. A few are fine, but if I get more than three requests for the same one, I'm going to turn them away. You won't believe how repetitive that will become and it's the one thing I'm hoping to avoid.
Short answer version: other people can do the same urban legend as you, but I'd prefer if that didn't happen... if only for the fact that there are so many cool ones out there to choose from.
"maths" is like "horrors", which is also incorrect.
Maybe you're going Euro...LOL!!!
American - "I'm good at math"
Euro - "I'm good at maths"
American - "I write horror"
Euro - "I write horrors"
C'mon, The DON...really? I think all these non Americans have influenced you...but that's not a bad thing...other than maybe Dustin - JUST KIDDING!! Dustin's OK, for a Brit. LOL
...I'm currently writing a feature loosely based on The Russian Sleep Experiment...
I also think I wrote one before about something else, but I can't remember what it was about or what it was called...note to self. Cut down on Guinness...
I won't be back until early tomorrow morning, but like I said, feel free to blow up my inbox (or don't. I don't care) with your requests. If you don't, don't blame me when we read 20 scripts about the Killer in the Backseat. Just saying... For the rest of the night, Jeff, you're in charge...
Yeah, right. We're better off with anarchy than your Jager-drinkin' ass as a dictator. I jest. Kinda. =)
Think I'm gonna use that old Aussie urban legend about the "Creeper in the Cutoffs." You play Helter Skelter backwards while chugging a Fosters and the Creeper appears on your doorstep looking for a new pair of Daisy Dukes.
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