In Flanders Fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

– John McCrae
   May 3, 1915

Hi,

I’m behind on updates. I will get caught up this week. While you wait, read some scripts over on the Unproduced Scripts page where you will find twenty-two original scripts for your reading pleasure.

And

The 4 Week Challenge (4WC) is underway! There is still three weeks left. Check out the theme and get a feature written this month!.

… and writers’ choice.

Over on the Unproduced Scripts are fourteen original Halloween scripts for your reading pleasure. If you are a producer or director of short films, pleanty of time to knock one of these out over the year for next Halloween! Be sure and reach out to the writer for permission before you begin!

And, the November Challenge has started! Think of it as four mini One Week Challenges! Get the deets! and write a feature this month!

– Don

Big thanks to Barksid for the heads up on the first salvo of scripts studios are posting for award consideration.

After The Hunt by Nora Garrett hosted by Amazon MGM Studios

(August 13, 2024 draft) – A college professor finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star pupil levels an accusation against one of her colleagues and a dark secret from her own past threatens to come to light. (pdf) IMDb Info

Hedda by Nia DaCosta (Based on the play Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen) hosted by Amazon MGM Studios

(undated, unspecified draft) – Hedda finds herself torn between the lingering ache of a past love and the quiet suffocation of her present life. Over the course of one charged night, long-repressed desires and hidden tensions erupt—pulling her and everyone around her into a spiral of manipulation, passion, and betrayal. (pdf) IMDb Info

These are more will be posted on the scripts studios are posting for award consideration page.

P.S. I’m working on getting that thing fixed 😉

Award winning screenwriter, Pia Cook, ever expanding her horizons, turned her screenplay It’s Just a Box!, which you can read here, into a short story that has been publishing in a horror anthology – It’s Dark In Their Minds – Horror Anthology Vol II. It’s perfect for Halloween! And the purchase helps support the site and encourages Pia to write more. We all win!

But don’t take my word for it. Here is a review:

Talk about the book, on the discussion board.

– Don

Check out the scripts of the Halloween One Week Challenge. The theme was, as you’d expect, Horror.

If you as a director or producer have any interest in these scripts, please reach out to me until the writers are revealed.
– Don

Want to read a script? Visit the Unproduced Scripts page for a dozen or so original scripts for your reading pleasure.

And want to write a script? Take the Challenge! The One Week Challenge. Check out the theme and get writing.

PC: P. Cook

– Don

Over on the Unproduced Scripts page are twenty-two original scripts for your reading pleasure.

And this Friday the 17th the OWC will be announced.

– Don

Over on the Unproduced Scripts page are nineteen original scripts for your reading pleasure. Go check them out.

Also, We have just come off the marathon Writers Tournament. There were a total of three rounds. There was Round One and Round Two and Round Three of scripts less than 10 pages specially crafted for small shoots. You’ll be surprised who was crowned the Writers’ Choice.

– Don