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 
Business of Show Institute and Sony Creative Software support Write Club
BOSI and SONY ROCK!
We are thrilled to announce that Marvin Acuna’s Business of Show Institute (BOSI) and Sony Creative Software are supporting our efforts to challenge the screenwriting community by providing the prize for our first challenge!
The winner of the first Write Club Screenplay Challenge on “Subtext” will receive a boxed copy of Sony Vegas Movie Studio 9 Platinum Pro Pack!
Now remember, boys and girls, Write Club doesn’t always offer prizes for our challenges but it only seems right that our inaugural launch be as celebratory as possible. So when BOSI and Sony stepped up and volunteered, we said what any smart guy is gonna say… Yes!
We are very excited to be able to offer this great prize, and can’t express enough gratitude to Marvin, BOSI and Sony for their support.
Now get out there and write!
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
