Saturday 1 August 2009

Summer's Plan

The other day I happened to fall upon a rather excellent opportunity - a competition by those frightfully helpful chaps over at the BBC Writer's Room.

As I was having a look through their site for any currently available opportunities, one in particular leapt right out at me. It's a scriptwriting competition designed for those living or were born in Scotland! Yay! Tick that box!

Downside is, I plan to use something that I've recently sent in for another US competition (deadline 8th Aug). That particular one was limited to 10 pages, however as I was writing it, I realised there was so much more I could do with it. I wrote it over two days and to be honest the subject was one that didn't have much interest to me when I first read about the theme of the US competition.
The idea though came in a flash and I felt that lovely warm feeling you get when you suddenly jump on a new idea.

This new competition is looking for the first script and outline for a series/serial and so yesterday, I spent the day drafting out the first outline for a 5 episode serial . I'm really excited about it and hope that I don't win that other comp now (not that there is much chance of that to be honest).)

I'll keep you posted about how things go. The deadline for the Scottish competition is November and I'm just itching to get dug in and expand it!

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