Round one of the Cyberspace Open writing contest is this weekend, and it’s going to be a hoot! While I don’t know whether anyone out there is interested in participating at an official level (if you are, you must enter by the 16th), I thought I’d remind you just in case. Even if you don’t register officially, you can still play along. Whee!
From the official Web site, here is the description of round one of the competition:
Round One: Your Lost Weekend
This round is like this real-life situation: A producer calls you at 5 pm Friday and says “We desperately need a new scene first thing Monday, or production stalls, with a $50,000/hour crew sitting around!”
This is your chance to save the production. We send every entrant the same premise and set of characters by email at or slightly before 5 p.m. Friday, Sept. 18, 2009. The premise will also be posted above on this page where indicated in case you don’t get the email.
Contestants will have the entire weekend, until 9 AM Monday Sept. 21 — but not one second more– to write and submit one final version of one scene, three to five pages long, on line.
Then, judges from CoverageInk.com, the manager of the competition, will grade each scene. Entrants will receive feedback and a score from a judge by email.
Exactly 100 highest-scoring writers advance to the tighter deadline of Round Two.
I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m really looking forward to participating. When I get the notification of what the scene is supposed to be about, I’ll post it here, and when I submit my entry I’ll post that here as well. If anyone else writes something based on the challenge that they would like to share, I’ll happily post that as well. It could be a movie scene, but you could attack the subject in regular prose, poetry, or even photos if you want. I’m the only one who has to please a judge. Use it as an excuse to spend some time with your creative side.
At the very least, please stop by over the weekend and cheer me on!
Good job on the Reminder! I am signed up, and ready to go! The time difference is a bit of a pain, but that’s the life of a script writer. Now…to take over the world!
Excellent! See you in the winner’s circle!
OK, what are the odds that all three of us, in three different time zones, would all be online, on this blog, all at the same time?
And I thought you were going to say “be the three finalists!”
I thought the same thing!