9.26.2006

 

ONE PAGE 2006

A year ago (more or less exactly), I put a challenge to the screenwriters out on the intertron netulator. Many of them picked up the challenge and ran with it. A few said they would, but didn't (you know who you are).

Guess what? It's time again. Put up one page of original material and that includes you spec TV writers. Give us a page from your House or Without A Trace. To that end, I've gone with a page from a spec for The Unit. Preferably post something you've written in the last 365 days, but really...how are we gonna know?

Let us see what it is you write. One page, no set-up or explanations. It doesn't necessarily even have to make sense out of context. One page won't hurt you. No one's gonna be able to steal your work from one page. Do it (then leave a comment here so we know you did it).

And you pros out there, I understand there are issues with you posting a page of stuff, but maybe you could give us a page of an old spec that got you a staff job (I'm looking at you, Jane) or some screenplay that went nowhere and you've shoved it away never to be seen again.

Feel free to do more than a page if you like.



I'm using a .jpg screenshot right out of my word processor, but John August has a CSS template for this same purpose if you'd care to go that route.

32 Comments:

Blogger Unknown Screenwriter said...

Okay, I had some time to kill. The screen capture idea worked great.

See my page at:

My third Flukey Friday...

Who's next?

Unk

3:44 AM  
Blogger pooks said...

I'm in!

pooks’s page

8:24 AM  
Blogger Spanish Prisoner said...

I'm in too!

Spanish Prisoner's page

8:33 AM  
Blogger nerium_oleander said...

Jumped on board myself.

11:45 AM  
Blogger taZ said...

I'm also in. IN. IN. Such a small word...

6:07 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm not sure what the point is, but then I've never got the point of anything. One page

6:09 PM  
Blogger Cynthia said...

Me too.

One Page

11:26 PM  
Blogger Piers said...

One page.

No explanations. No excuses.

3:14 AM  
Blogger Spatula007 said...

I put a one page up. Not the first page, mind, I'm still clunking with the intro. So here.


Superblog One Page

8:37 AM  
Blogger Chesher Cat said...

Okay, I'm playing.

My First Kiss

1:29 PM  
Blogger Milehimama said...

I know it said no explanations, no excuses... but this is the first action scene I've written:
http://milehimama-writes.blogspot.com/2006/10/one-page.html

8:05 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm challenging all readers to write the next line of dialogue to my "one page" segment.

shado.wordpress.com

6:23 PM  
Blogger Dave said...

Better late than never, right?

Dave's One Page

10:22 PM  
Blogger m said...

You're not late.

There is no late.

10:44 PM  
Blogger MaryAn Batchellor said...

RE: THE UNIT -- Promise me your specs will focus more on the missions and play out less like an episode of "desperate army wives" than some of what I've seen.

8:27 AM  
Blogger Nicholas J. Robinson said...

I'm in for this.

Check it out at NicholasJRobinson.com

11:32 AM  
Anonymous C. Moore said...

Alrighty then, I'm game.

Oh, the Horror

11:56 AM  
Blogger Emily Blake said...

If there is no late then I'm in, but I couldn't put it up as a jpeg 'cuz I'm not that bright.

4:04 PM  
Blogger the kookie said...

Mine's up! Ack! Scary isn't even the word...

5:22 PM  
Blogger Francis said...

Great concept. Enjoying the other posts.

Here's page 26!

6:16 PM  
Blogger Maggie said...

Here we go!

http://bootstrap-productions.blogspot.com/2006/10/one-page-for-red-right-hands-one-page.html

10:47 PM  
Blogger Poke said...

Can I join your cool gang? I have many skills that can be used when confronting other gangs, the dreaded five-oh, and various other nuisances.

One Page of "The Lili Paradox.

Poke

11:15 PM  
Blogger Webs said...

I'm in, too, with a page from "72 Virgins".

2:49 PM  
Anonymous kristen said...

I put one up, but it's copied & pasted due to technical ineptitude on the part of the author.

3:36 PM  
Blogger Joshua James said...

Hey, I'm in, too. Here's mine http://playwrightjoshuajames.com/dailydojo/?p=216 thought I had to do the cut and paste thing as well -

4:41 PM  
Blogger Todd VanDerWerff said...

I don't know how to do links.

But I will tell you that mine is here:

http://fatbot52.blogspot.com/2006/10/random-scene.html

Yes.

1:55 AM  
Blogger William Gallagher said...

One page a year, eh? Well, I'll have to speed up but I like it.

Thanks to Piers for pointing me over here, and this is my excerpt page:
William's page

6:10 AM  
Blogger Schmucks with Underwoods said...

I'm in too. See:
http://www.writinglounge.blogspot.com

9:43 AM  
Blogger Lee said...

I know I've got a page around here somewhere. Ah-ha!

12:20 PM  
Blogger Tim said...

Okay, I'm running late, but it's finally there.

5:16 AM  
Blogger Chris said...

Belatedly, I am in


The Big Woo

2:10 AM  
Blogger Panama Charlie said...

Tail end Charlie couldn't resist.

3:54 PM  

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