Screenplay Challenge One: Subtext – the results are in…
The first Write Club Screenwriting Challenge contest results announced – “Subtext”.
See the original challenge (and read the entries) here…
The envelope please…
Thanks to all those who submitted to the subtext challenge. Knowing how to avoid gratuitous exposition and on-the-nose dialogue is so critical to developing characters that have depth and motivations that resonate.
How often as a teen did you catch grief over your tone of voice? “It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it” was a common refrain in my household. Read more 
Challenge One: Subtext
09/01/09 – SUBMISSIONS ARE CLOSED – See results here!
It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it.
The gauntlet has been thrown.
John Rainey has stepped up and volunteered to referee our first challenge. It goes without saying that all of our challenges share a few requirements… among them proper format, spelling, and punctuation. Otherwise, we leave it up to each referee to define their challenge, and to decide just how stringent they plan to be on issues of compliance. We can promise you John has extremely high expectations.
JOHN’S CHALLENGE REQUIREMENTS (READ CAREFULLY):
From John’s site: “An objective is the character’s subtext in a scene. Rarely do characters say what their objective is. They speak around it in an effort to persuade the other character to give him/her what he/she wants. A guy on a date would never say ‘Let’s go to my place and have sex.’ … To say that would be ‘on-the-nose.’” …more Read more
first challenge coming soon!
We’re happy to announce that John Rainey has agreed to design and referee our first challenge!
We can’t tell you the details yet, but we can let you know that the theme is SUBTEXT.
Check back September 1st for the announcement.
And check out our about and rules pages to learn more about Write Club Screenplay Challenge.
John Rainey – Rated the #1 screenwriting analyst in the country by Creative Screenwriting Magazine in 2003, John has been in the industry as an actor, screenwriter, reader, and analyst for more than 20 years. Learn more about John’s consulting and writing services at raineyscriptconsulting.com.
