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After fighting through 50 different story ideas, the boys have picked Time to Die as the script to write. They are now starting the writing process.

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Round Seven -- I Forfeit

March 14, 2006 · by The Urban Shockah · Permalink · comment on this post in the forum · Category: Original Version, communiqués, the screenplay

Nope. Couldn't do it. I tried, several times, but I simply can't make a story about a woman trapped in a house work. (And by work, I mean come up with a second act, let alone a third.) I only had three requirements: that it be interesting enough that I'd want to spend time writing it, that it make sense (even if only in a poetic or metaphoric way), and that it be suspenseful. I could get one, sometimes I could get two, but never all three.

I thought I was maybe onto something with my latest idea (which was promising, I thought, because it went in a slightly different direction than what the original concept suggested -- think a supernatural version of Primer) but a) I ran out of time, and b) my enthusiasm for it kept waxing and waning. If Rachel, My Dear survives, I'll keep working on it and share it at some point.

So, it's all in your hands, Burley.