Quoted from CindyLKeller So it looks like the OWC is going to have a good turnout.   Sandra, I haven't read anything from you in quite a while. I'm glad you entered. Cindy

I'm starting to call our house The Crazy Palace. There's so much going on around here all the time it's retarded, but we're pushing into autumn, my favorite time of year, and it's 2011 gosh darn it. Sandra better had enter or what's this world coming to anywhoo.  

Glad to see Phil back. I'm excited to watch everything roll.

Sandra

Quoted from Pii (Not that anyone really cares, of course. I'm sure nobody remembers me here any more. But posting about it here gives me a boost to actually get cracking.)

I remember ya, Henrik!

Quoted from wonkavite Can't wrap my head around this OWC, for now.   I'm in the midst of working a first draft of a new feature, w/limited time.  And the criteria for this one just seemed...too broad.

I hear ya.  Haven't written a word yet because I can't even decide on a genre.  

I actually may be done ahead of schedule for a change.  Came up with an idea yesterday and started writing today.

I'm already on page 36 and it's looking pretty good.  I decided to stick with my original genre - Erotic Historical Paranoid Fantasy.

Quoted from Heretic I remember ya, Henrik!

Hooray!

I actually finished a draft for this already. Talk about forced inspiration!

Alright!  I'm actually done. Got it down from over 30 pages to 3 1/2, then had to increase it up to 6.  I'm happy with it.  Hope the erotica isn't too much for anyone.  I tried my best to keep it under an X rating, and I think I succeeded.

It all takes place within a king sized water bed, so I'm pretty sure I met the requirements.

Hope everyone is coming along nicely on their scripts.  If you need any help or a pre-read, send them over to Stevie, in OZ.

Never done one of these before, finally got around to it.  Good luck... to me, just me... nah, good luck to all of you... but mostly me.

Quoted from Conz Never done one of these before, finally got around to it.  Good luck... to me, just me... nah, good luck to all of you... but mostly me.

There's no winners here, but my script will kick yours' ass. Its the best thing since sliced bread.

James.... Remember me......

YES!!!!

LOVE IT, James!  Look forward to your script.

Bring it, bitch!!!!!  AAAAYYEE!!

A little competition...here we go, guys and gals

I have nothing so far, but I'm not stressed. There is still 25,5 hours to go. I have to plan a wedding first, but so what?  

finally got around to entering one of these. good luck everyone. glad to see everyone else made the deadline as well. can't wait to read em.

Is anyone else as obsessive as me? I can't stop tinkering. Whenever I have something constructed, (I know the way it goes for me) I keep working on drawing more out of it. That's not unusual, I know, but I really do fight over every word and sometimes a person needs to just let it be. I know that logically, but I just can't leave things emotionally. It's a really hard thing for me to just walk away and switch gears.

Although it's not a "technical problem" as we might typically describe, still:
It's a huge stumbling block.

How do you all cope with an over indulgence with regards to the craft? I'd really like to know because I really do have a hard time switching those proverbial gears in an explicit way. The best I've come to accept is to focus firstly on "living my life with others" and then, saying, "If something is supposed to be, it will be." In other words, I try not to worry but just keep working.

Sandra

I call that white space syndrome.  Lots of people suffer from it, I do too but I'm getting better about it.

I call it white space syndrome not because of white space on a script page but because of white space in a drawing or painting.  Back when I did both of those things often I used to have a problem of overworking them because I was never satisfied with how the white space looked.  And in turn I destroyed the light source of my paintings, the illumination.  That would be the stroke itself.

The trick with painting or drawing is to leave the stroke intact.  The stroke itself has white space inside of it or at the edges of it.  And from those tiny bits of white, those holes, those imperfections, comes the light. It's all those imperfect strokes in combination that make the painting.   They also make your painting alive.

Covering them may make each stroke look perfect but it makes the drawing heavy.  So leave those imperfections be, make one bold brush stroke and move onto the next.  The same is true for your writing.  

I'm in.

I'm an obsessive tinkerer myself, but even if this might sound overly simplified, I dare to assert that I've found a one word solution to it: Deadline.