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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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Re: [7] Round 12, Part Two [La Commune Planet v. The Scabs]

September 23, 2006 · by The Urban Shockah · Permalink · comment on this post in the forum · Category: Original Version, the screenplay

First, apologies to Grymz and everyone else for my recent silence. Several things have happened this week that have forced my attention elsewhere. The one most applicable here was that on Monday morning, the first day of a week off that I was planning to devote to Spitball! and other writing pursuits, my computer died.

One day after the warranty expired.

Luckily, the Apple guy up in Lynnwood, WA was a total mensch, and sent it off to be repaired free of charge. However, this means that I'm forced to use my wife's PC laptop, which, to me, is like trying to write on a loom. ("Hi Bart, I am weaving on a loom!")

The other thing: in case y'all out there in Spitball!land haven't heard, my wife is pregnant with our first child. And we just found out that it will be a girl! Laura Mae arrives sometime on or around February 5th -- be the first on your block to get one!

Oh yeah, and Spitball!: I'm not ready to totally dive into this (I will when my computer gets back from the shop), but YES, your explanation of The Scabs totally helps. If I were to slot it into a category, however, from what you've written, I'd call that suspense, bordering into horror. So when you say that it has comedy... well, you've just birthed a whole new genre. Congratulations! What are you going to name it? :-)

I'll be posting my characters soon. (I was actually working on them when I got the flashing screen of death.) I was actually trying to write them somewhat neutrally; that is, something that's applicable regardless of the genre. Is that possible? I think so, but maybe not. Anyway, we'll be back on track pretty soon.

I'll be back in two and two.