How To Use This Site

(The following is intended for those new to the site as well as co-administrators who are still trying to wrap their feeble minds around the vast, intimidating thing they've helped birth.)

Welcome to Spitball! (Exclamation point is mandatory.)

The point of the site is to write a screenplay, from start to finish, from germinal ideas to 120 pages of dramatic goodness. Although the authors of this site, Burley Grymz and Urban Shockah, are ultimately the authors of the screenplay, we invite everyone on the Blog-o-Web to contribute. That creates some sticky conundrums, so, before you do that, you may want to peruse this and this.

Okay, so you've decided to contribute -- what now?

Well, first thing, read the entries. Burley and I will, in all likelihood, have a running conversation about the screenplay via blog entries, kinda like how those goofs over at SLOG discuss Brokeback Mountain and threaten to post pictures of nude men and women at each other.

(I say "in all likelihood" because, this being the beginning stages of this site, I have no idea how it will evolve. Stay tuned.)

Anyway, so you've read about our ideas and still want to contribute. You'll notice that instead of blog comments, we have a link that reads, "Comment on this post in the forum". Because this project is potentially huge and unwieldy, the forum is our home base, our Death Star if you will, where all the ideas will be collected and the real work will be done. Each and every blog post will have an accompanying forum topic, so there should be a place for every idea and every thought. But if not, we also have the "Ideas and Critique" board and the "Plot" board -- and I presume some of the heavy lifting (collating relevant posts and debuting drafts of scenes) will occur here as well. And while you're in the forum, why not visit some of the other boards? We've got places to discuss movies, books, and TV, as well as a place to talk about your own work, and other specialized boards. Want to bitch about the look and organization of this site? Go here.

(Remember to register to access the forum!)

So that's kinda how Spitball! is going to roll: Burley and I will post ideas about the screenplay (and eventually, completed pages), and you can provide feedback in the forums, and we'll listen to your feedback and fold it into the ideas and pages, and you'll provide more feedback, and so on and so on, and maybe, eventually, we'll have a completed screenplay at the end of the tunnel.

A screenplay that anyone is welcome to use.