Is it just me, or is everyone holding their breath waiting to hear from Red Planet?
Perhaps it’s just me.
I’m getting way too hung up about it. I’ve got three spec scripts here that need finishing.
Phill Barron is right – lifts are all very well, but you’ve got to get on the ladder.
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It’s not just you.
I sent them an e-mail yesterday evening asking if they could give an idea when they might know – just so I could stop wearing a hole in the carpet.
Do please let me know if you get an answer. Cheers.
This way madness lies my good man. Put it from your mind!
I tell you what, I’ll race you to finish a new script before the results are in? Whoever has the most pages written by the time it’s announced wins a Kit Kat.
So far I have 0 new script pages so you’re probably in the lead.
Go!
I can’t put it from my mind, that’s the thing. I’m trying, dammit, but it’s locked in. Argh.
But yeah, let’s do the Lipton-Timms Kit Kat Challenge. It’s the latest greatest scriptwriting competition. Free entry and a prize you can eat.
I’m 15 pages into Yummy Mummy, 8 pages into Magick, 2 pages into The Theatre Group and 20 pages into The Chuckle Bus (and that’s a collab, so it doesn’t count) and it doesn’t seem fair to use any of those. I’ll start a new script for the LTKKC.
Like you said: Go!
Or, carry on with one you’ve started but we’ll use the honour system and only count new pages.
I trust you.
“I trust you”.
Ha. Ha ha. Ha ha ha. Ahahahahaha. MWA HAHAHAHAHAAAAA!
Ahem.
Sorry.
Yes. Like I said. New script. New boots and panties.
Aha. I see. Almost exactly the opposite of doing nothing then. Arguing about what to do.
P [joke]
I don’t think of them as pages, but then mine aren’t scripts. I just know that:
Tom has to answer the phone
Paolo has to hit Giulio. Preferably, but not unconditionally, on the nose
Tito has to rewind and not smash a guitar but let someone else do it instead
and finally Jack needs to look in a shed.
I’m just wondering whether your meisterwerk could translate to screen. Hmm.
I’m very happy waiting: I don’t see it as orbiting the Red Planet, I see it as being in a Lagrange point there. While we don’t know, I’m a finalist and can shout about it to producers. When we do, it’s over. Unless I win, anyway.
William
I’ve certainly been using my ‘finalist’ status when talking to producers and I’ll continue to do so for months to come.
I think I understand why I’m a bit more anxious about it, though. As some people are aware, my RP script was the first script I ever wrote. I don’t have a history as a published writer and I don’t yet have any professional approval (for want of a better word) of my abilities as a writer. That’s why I want to know. What is my writing actually like?
Ack. That sounds a bit pathetic. I could easily get Lucy Vee’s professional opinion or that of several other respected readers.
Right. I’m on page 11.
They’re not good pages but we never said anything about quality.
How am I looking for that Kit Kat?
No, we didn’t say anything about quality. Hm. I’m still on page zero. It’s taken a few hours for inspiration to strike. However, I have a story mix in the mental microwave and it’s about to go ping. And when it does I shall type like topsy.
11 pages. I’m doomed.
I’ve got my mojo working. I’m on page 3 now.
On the subject of RPP-based anxiety, did you get an email acknowledgment of any kind when you submitted your completed script?
Nope, not a sausage.
That’s alright then – as long as it wasn’t just me I shall assume all is well get on with the business of trying to forget about it until an announcement is made.
No, I don’t think it’s just you. RP isn’t exactly thronging with admin staff, so I think we just have to keep the faith.
In through the nose, out through the mouth with that breathing!!!
As someone who went there and did that last year with great results (final twenty) I can say that they didn’t acknowledge receipt of second round material then either.
And btw Laurence, my script was the first one I’d written as well so be cool!!
Lisa, as always, I salute you. I saw the crescent; you saw the whole of the moon.
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