Screenwriting Challenge Contest: Day 7
Screenwriter Eric Heisserer (A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Thing, Final Destination 5) and now writer-director (Hours) has been a longtime friend of the blog and fellow Twitter denizen (@HIGHzurrer). You may remember the interview I did with him earlier this year (Eric also made the 2012 Black List with his screenplay adaptation of the Ted Chiang short story “Story of Your Life”).
A couple of years ago, Eric ran a series of “screenwriting challenges” via Twitter and they proved to be quite popular. So much so that Eric has put them out as a book:
Seeing as we had so much fun with the Scene-Writing Series we ran in September, Eric kindly agreed to do a similar week-long contest here on the blog. Each day this week, I will post one of the challenges from Eric’s book. I encourage you to take up the challenge and post your scene to Comments. There will be one winner for each challenge, so 7 winners in all. Prizes:
Monday-Friday: A free copy of Eric’s ebook “150 Screenwriting Challenges”.
Saturday-Sunday: The Black List is offering your choice of either 2 free months of hosting your script on their site or a free script evaluation ($50 value).
How cool is that?
Here is today’s screenwriting challenge via Eric’s book:
Challenge
Write a love scene that doesn’t turn you off or make a reader snicker. Note: This is more difficult than it sounds. Three random readers must love it.
Everyone thinks they’re as good at writing sex as they are doing it. They aren’t.
In terms of posting in Comments, don’t worry about script format, focus on the content of the exercise.
Who will determine the winner? Why, none other than Max Millimeter: Hollywood Movie Producer Extraordinaire, whose unique perspective on movies you can get a taste of here.
Take up the screenwriting challenge for a chance to win some prizes and enhance your writing chops.
Thanks, Eric, for your generosity and congratulations on your book.
“150 Screenwriting Challenges” is available for Kindle on Amazon here.
For the Day 7 challenge, let’s set a deadline of Monday, November 25 at Midnight Pacific Standard Time (U.S.). Max will need a day or two to catch up with each challenge, but generally you can expect an announcement of the winner with 48 hours of deadlines.
Finally here’s a Tweet from Eric aimed at everyone who has participated in the Screenwriting Challenge Contest so far:
That’s it for the week-long series. Thanks to Eric and the Black List for their respective prizes.
UPDATE: We have a winner from the Day 5 challenge. And for the first time ever, Max actually texted me. Or tried to. Here it is:
Toughf one. Hero. Villllain. Tirn tables. Som good wrting. Gotta go wth dude gnna sacerfice dotter. Nice twst at end. Scene shoart but swweed. Me txtng now lik Steev fucking Jobss. Old dog. Nu trcks.
There you go. Max enters the 21st century… barely. And Sabina Giado wins the prize. Send me your email address and I’ll pass that along to Eric Heisserer so you can receive your free copy of “150 Screenwriting Challenges.”
Two more prizes to give away. Stay tuned for Max’s take on the Day 6 and Day 7 challenges.
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