One Page Challenge - 2006
September 29, 2006 — pooksTwo birds with one stone.
I found some very cool new (to me) screenwriting/film blogs yesterday. (Unk led me to MM who led me–eventually–to Matt.)
As if that weren’t enough — this morning Unk posted the first page of one of his scripts in response to a challenge from Michael who evidently started this a year ago with his first One Page Challenge.
So after much dickering and dinking with software (and help from nic and Unk) I have managed to upload the first page of one of my scripts.
And since I’m always being asked to let people read the script that won the Nicholl (and always saying, “no”) I figured this would be a chance to let you at least throw darts at the first page. (I already see something I’ve never noticed before and am itching to change it, but won’t.)
So I pass on the challenge — post your first page or any single page, and let me know you did! And also, you’re supposed to go here and post a link to your one-page. Let’s see how far it goes.
I showed mine. Now you show yours! (Oh, I think I’ll post another one later — one that hasn’t met with as much success.)












September 29, 2006 at 10:30 am
Aw shucks… I was hoping the rooster would burst into flames and SCREAM.
I’m always disappointed.
September 29, 2006 at 10:32 am
DAMN!!!!!
If I’d thought of that, this movie would already be produced!
September 29, 2006 at 11:51 am
[...] Following the example of Pooks, the unknown screenwriter, the spanish prisoner, and Michael, (not necessarily in any order) here’s my One Page, with no explaination… [...]
September 29, 2006 at 11:53 am
Pooks, that’s a helluva an opening. I feel like running around just screaming that- MURDERERS!!! which would of course draw undue attention.
Instead I’m jumping on the bandwagon…
http://www.nicollecjones.com/archives/125
September 29, 2006 at 11:56 am
Heey your WP picked up my WP link… how the heck did it do that?
September 29, 2006 at 12:35 pm
FADE IN is so so so 20th century, pooks.
September 29, 2006 at 12:38 pm
Really? I missed the memo! (Which is ironic because when I read
http://mysterymanonfilm.blogspot.com/2006/09/new-spec-style.html I couldn’t figure out what the hooplah was about — I’ve been doing that stuff for years!)
September 29, 2006 at 1:22 pm
And I think there is now a limit of FOUR sluglines per page.
I’ll make sure you get another copy of the memo…
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TPS report B
September 29, 2006 at 1:35 pm
All these memos. What next — they’ll tell you want font to use?
September 29, 2006 at 4:36 pm
pooks,
I like it. Only problem is that I was really hoping for a better description of the Whore.
How about it?
Unk
September 29, 2006 at 4:41 pm
Oh, you’d see a LOT of the whore before it’s over. (wink)
I just didn’t want to waste space on the first page with descriptions. I was already risking having it too confusing with too many people.
I introduced the three main characters (Coulter, the Sheriff and Elizabeth) and the event in the past that connects them.
Too much on one page? Maybe.
September 29, 2006 at 4:42 pm
nic — Heey your WP picked up my WP link… how the heck did it do that?
It’s a ping-back. That’s all I know.
September 29, 2006 at 4:53 pm
Now I wanta go back and reread the story - it’s SO GOOD!
September 29, 2006 at 5:10 pm
It’s a ping-back. That’s all I know.
Lies! You have a majick blog@! *cower*
September 29, 2006 at 5:15 pm
Candace, you make me blush.
Nic — Well of course I do. But that doesn’t have anything to do with the ping-back. That’s an entirely different matter.
September 29, 2006 at 8:19 pm
Okay, I went there and I did. I came, I saw…I stumbled over something in the dark. Okay, it was actually too dark to see. And I don’t really know where I was. Anyway….
Shado
September 30, 2006 at 2:18 am
Wear the badge with pride.
Or, you know…don’t.
September 30, 2006 at 8:33 am
I didn’t know there’s a badge! Woo-hoo!
October 1, 2006 at 8:23 pm
I’m challenging readers to write the next line of dialogue to my “one page” segment. If I get a few entries I’ll post the lines I wrote for it.
shado.wordpress.com
October 2, 2006 at 8:32 pm
Lots of vivid description - interesting choices (”Maybe, just maybe, SCREAMS can be heard…”
October 4, 2006 at 9:53 am
[...] So when I posted a page the other day, I posted the first page in a script, but then I figure out that the goal was to post a page (without any explanation) from within your script. [...]
October 10, 2006 at 9:12 pm
[...] Okay, with the One Page Challenge 2006 (which in a burst of overachieving frenzy I did twice, first page and interior page) came some followups from other screenwriters. [...]
December 30, 2006 at 7:51 pm
[...] Let’s go back to Red Right Hand’s ONE PAGE blog event back in September. This is very interesting because I haven’t seen this particular ONE PAGE since September and yet, I still remember it. It came from Pooks over at Planet Pooks: [...]
January 2, 2007 at 8:00 pm
[...] 2007 — pooks Imagine my astonishment when I figured out people were coming here to read this because Unk wrote this. (And while we’re on the subject, who is this masked man, the unknown [...]
May 10, 2007 at 8:03 pm
[...] PLANET POOKS [...]