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For the next 10 days, you will suffer from a condition commonly referred to as the "Cassandra Complex". You will be unable to convince anyone of a future you know is coming and likely be thought of as a bit crazy due to your insistence on being a time traveler.
T-minus 240 hours until your OWC script is due.
Topic: Time Travel Genre: Open
You have ten days to write a screenplay between 10 and 15 pages. The screenplay must be properly formatted and in PDF format. The scripts are due on Friday, January 10th at 11:59PM EST and must be submitted to: SimplyScripts.com/owc.
There will be a Writer's Choice wherein the participants (and only the participants) will be asked to select the three scripts he or she likes the best.
Timeline:
December 31st at 11:59PM EST - Theme and Genre announced.
January 10th at 11:59PM EST - Scripts are due.
January 24th at 5:00PM EST - Names and writer's choice revealed.
Da Rules:
Your protagonist must travel to some point in the past using some form of time travel device (the method is up to you. It could be a time machine, wormhole, electromagnetic explosion a la Lost, etc). So long as they travel into the past.
You do not have to show them in the present before they time travel. You can start with them already in the past if you like, however...
We must see the results of their exploits and its effect on the present (from their point of view. In other words, if they traveled from 1977, back to 1954, we would need to see how the changes they made--or didn't make--affected life in 1977): positive, negative or neutral.
Your character can travel from any point in history, even if it's from a point in our current future, to fix an event that hasn't happened yet. For example, they can travel from 2014 to 1968 to stop Martin Luther King Jr. from being shot, 2008 to 2000 to stop that bully from picking on you in high school or you can even travel from 2491 to 2240 to stop World War XVII.
You can alter history in any way you see fit, so long as, at some point after your character "succeeds" or "fails" in their mission, we see the effect they had on their present.
Jargon:
10 - 15 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 January 10th.
Participants are strongly encouraged to read and comment/review on the scripts submitted.
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.
I tried to write a time travel short story around twenty years ago and failed miserably. I will give this one a go though... just need to recover first. Been a long night.
Time travel, interesting. Never tried one of those before.
As usual I will be trying to keep a budget in mind to give it an outside chance of production, but first I need an idea.
Would it be acceptable just to see, or make contact with the past, rather than physically appear? May not be the intention, but may open some simple opportunities.
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As usual I will be trying to keep a budget in mind to give it an outside chance of production, but first I need an idea.
Would it be acceptable just to see, or make contact with the past, rather than physically appear? May not be the intention, but may open some simple opportunities.
If that's the way you write, Bill, feel free. But, you're not required to stick to a certain budget. However, they have to actually travel to the past. They don't need to make it back to the present, but we have to see the effect what they did had on the present.