I Just Got Dumped! (Valentine's Day exercise, deadline Feb 14th)

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  • I Just Got Dumped! (Valentine's Day exercise, deadline Feb 14th)

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    "I JUST GOT DUMPED!"

    Valentine's Screenplay Competition.

    8 Pages in Screenplay Format.
    Dates to be confirmed but please begin to think of your ideas right NOW!

    Maximum of three entries.
    Voting, results, and feedback to follow the competition as per usual.

    Theme/Story to reflect the spirit of Valentine's directly or indirectly, options to be original and create, are very wide.

    SCRIPTS TO BE SUBMITTED BY MIDNIGHT, YOUR LOCALE, 14TH FEBRUARY 2018, preferably in pdf format, see below in general posts for clarifications/developing details. This just our banner introduction. Thanks.



    Mod edit: For posterity, the entries thread is here and the results thread is here.
    Last edited by dpaterso; 02-21-2018, 07:37 AM.
    Forthcoming: The Annual, "I JUST GOT DUMPED" Valentine's Short Screenplay Writing Competition. Keep an eye on Writing Exercises.

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    discussions in thread below may commence........................>
    Forthcoming: The Annual, "I JUST GOT DUMPED" Valentine's Short Screenplay Writing Competition. Keep an eye on Writing Exercises.

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    • #3
      Re: I Just Got Dumped!

      I was going to offer sympathies, but then I got it.

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      • #4
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        Not to give anything away, but could this work for, oh, I don't know, say... two lizards in love -- just as an example?

        Or are you people here narrow-minded specieists?

        If you are cool with that -- would it be OK if those lizards were jumbo sized?

        (Once again, not to give anything away), but by jumbo, I might mean, Big Mac truck jumbo. Really, really big.

        Well -- all that and a B.C. time-frame. Or are the people here, bigoted timeists?

        How about the number of continents on Earth. Would, say, oh, I don't know, one be considered too few, as a setting?

        I mean, let's hope the people aren't hateful continentalists -- right?

        I'm trying not to give anything away about the "creatures" I would like to put in my story, but if you need more information, let me know.

        EDIT: By "continentalists" I was not trying to cast aspersions on a person or persons (to remain nameless). I was instead, referring to those mouth-breathing morons who question the number of continents the Earth once had.
        Last edited by StoryWriter; 01-05-2018, 09:39 PM.
        "I just couldn't live in a world without me."

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        • #5
          Re: I Just Got Dumped!

          -put anything you like in it StoryWriter, you could even have an Academy for Lizards, where there are lizards, all playing acoustic guitars and eating spaghetti, if you so wish!
          As long as at least some of them are in love.

          Forthcoming: The Annual, "I JUST GOT DUMPED" Valentine's Short Screenplay Writing Competition. Keep an eye on Writing Exercises.

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          • #6
            Re: I Just Got Dumped!

            wait, what's this I see, out in the swamplands of screenwriting. It's a sign, literally, not figuratively, it reads:

            BY ORDER OF THE MANAGEMENT:

            NO MORE LIZARD FLICKS PLEASE!




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            Forthcoming: The Annual, "I JUST GOT DUMPED" Valentine's Short Screenplay Writing Competition. Keep an eye on Writing Exercises.

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            • #7
              Re: I Just Got Dumped!

              I was considering a story involving young chickens.

              The first one to make the comment you are thinking loses.

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              • #8
                Re: I Just Got Dumped!

                I just posted a link to this contest on my twitter feed and on the facebook group "The Inside Pitch". Now the Porn industry as well as Russian intelligence can join in.
                TRIAL FORUMS


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                • #9
                  Re: I Just Got Dumped!

                  Dates fyi:

                  21 January is the official start date for this competition......... and scripts to be in by midnight, whatever time midnight falls in your locale, on the 14th February 2018.

                  Forthcoming: The Annual, "I JUST GOT DUMPED" Valentine's Short Screenplay Writing Competition. Keep an eye on Writing Exercises.

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                  • #10
                    Re: I Just Got Dumped!

                    - is that okay for you Derek?

                    Forthcoming: The Annual, "I JUST GOT DUMPED" Valentine's Short Screenplay Writing Competition. Keep an eye on Writing Exercises.

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                    • #11
                      Re: I Just Got Dumped!

                      No way man, no way. Love has no schedules, it just hits you in the face like a brick.

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                      • #12
                        Re: I Just Got Dumped!

                        Or, hits you in the face like the fork of a forklift, travelling at over a hundred miles an hour, driven by your mom. Just saying is all.
                        TRIAL FORUMS


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                        • #13
                          Re: I Just Got Dumped!

                          It was courageous of you to share this painful memory with us, I hope it helps you get over the incident, and your fear of fork lifts.

                          February 14th falls on a Wednesday. This statement has no significance, unless you're tetartiphobic.

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                          • #14
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                            If anybody intends to cast or feature frogs in their story, please be aware that we will need to post up a warning at the beginning of the script:

                            The standard blurb, is ~

                            WARNING: this script may feature strong scenes of frogs, jumping around, croaking, or just sitting there, doing very little but that little throat swelling thing that they do.

                            Thank you for reading.

                            Forthcoming: The Annual, "I JUST GOT DUMPED" Valentine's Short Screenplay Writing Competition. Keep an eye on Writing Exercises.

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                            • #15
                              Re: I Just Got Dumped!

                              I stayed up most of last night and wrote a shiny, brand new script, for Valentine's Day, without giant lizards or frogs.

                              (So I guess that leaves me one for giant lizards and one for frogs?)

                              This is the hardest I've worked on a short for awhile. Probably will have the same amount of suckage as my other ones though.
                              "I just couldn't live in a world without me."

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