Screenwriting Championships

I mentioned a few blogs back that I'm in a screenwriting contest. They give you a genre, location, and item, and you have a very short amount of time to write a 5-page script that works in all of those elements. You then win anywhere between 0-25 points, and you progress to the next round. For the first go, I had to write a political satire that took place in a tattoo parlor, and incorporated and construction hat. Yikes. That was a month ago, but Friday the scores came in and I got 22 points. Woohoo!

I had a week to write that first script, but on Friday they gave us the second assignment, and only two days to do it. So today I wrote some historical fiction that took place at a waterfall, and incorporated a tablecloth. I have to say I wasn't thrilled with my script for the first round, but I'm excited about the one I wrote today. Maybe I'll post it in the future. We'll see what the judges think about it . . . if they like it and I get enough points, I progress again in December. If not, I'm out.

I bought some materials this weekend to make "press kits" for the movie, which I'm halfway through with my "final viewing." So expect the next blog to be titled, "Finished!"