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Hey folks, welcome to Spitball!, the world's first screenplay written by blog.You may want to read the posts in our about section, particularly our Statement of Purpose

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There are two of us here: Kent M. Beeson (aka Urban Shockah) bio, and Martin McClellan (aka Burley Grymz) bio.

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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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Weekly Wrap-Up + 2! (3/18/06 - 3/26/06)

March 26, 2006 · by The Urban Shockah · Permalink · comment on this post in the forum · Category: Original Version, communiqués

Kinda like the Funky Four + One More... only, y'know, not.

So this week's been full of discussion, if very little forward momentum. Sometimes that happens, y'all.

The big thing this week has been Round Nine, The Atheist v. Atmosphere. By Shockah's estimate, this round probably would've been over by now, but Shockah and Burley got sidetracked by whether or not an autistic character is appropriate for the Atmosphere story, and other meta-discussions relating to such, even though it's highly likely that we won't be writing any autistic characters in whatever wins the Spitball! Tourney of Story Ideas. Also, Shockah owes a story sketch of The Atheist, one that takes place on our modern-day Earth and not on an alien planet, and he swears he'll have it done soon, but really, nothing's gonna move forward until he does.

Then, there was some rules discussion about how to gracefully exit a Round for the time being if it looks like it aint going anywhere anytime soon, known by the more elegant name tabling. Unfortunately, that discussion also ground to a halt, which was so ironic that all the anemics in a fifty mile radius were instantly cured.

Also, Burley is getting ready to do a sequence method analysis of Blue Fuckin' Velvet. He had a few questions, that Shockah, as designated expert (snort), answered the best he could. We're all quite excited to see what Burley comes up with.

Finally, both Shockah and Burley posted their philosophies behind creating character sketches for the story ideas. Why? Because it's fun. Burley, by simply explaining why he likes to name characters, has pretty much volunteered himself to name every character, as far as I'm concerned. (I hate doing it, y'see.) (Another aside: He credits me with "Valerie Plum", but I'm pretty sure that's his, too. He has enough names for both of us.)

Odds for next week:

Finishing Round Nine: 2-1
Figuring out rules for tabling: 4-1
Getting hung up on minutiae of space travel: Even
Someone suggests that the "Rasputin" character be autistic: 900-1