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Bill Nelson
Unity Member
Post Number:
2228
Registered: 10-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, July 31, 2006 - 04:10 pm: |   |
I entered a script in the 8th annual Scriptapalooza Screenwriting Contest.
They got 3600 entrants. I made the quarterfinals (336 scripts), but, alas, not the semifinals.
I see it as a minor victory. I'm pleased.
I seem to have posted this twice. Sorry!
What I meant to post was this....
The Director of Theatre at St. Mary's University here in San Antonio, has agreed to hold a reading of a three-act play I wrote.
We'll have it on the stage at their facility. The students will get the experience, I'll get the critique and hear it spoken by live actors, no matter how informal.
Cool, huh? I'm excited. |
Pacwriter
Unity Member
Post Number:
2514
Registered: 04-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, July 31, 2006 - 04:24 pm: | |
Way cool --- a Miller in the making
http://www.perrycomer.com
http://throughablindeye.blogspot.com/
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Stephen Lodge
Wandering Member
Post Number:
200
Registered: 06-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, July 31, 2006 - 04:48 pm: | |
Way to go, Bill ~
Novels by Stephen Lodge:
"Shadows of Eagles"
"Charley Sunday's Texas Outfit!"
"Nickel-Plated Dream"
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Laurel Johnson
Unity Member
Post Number:
4340
Registered: 01-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, July 31, 2006 - 05:24 pm: | |
Congrats Bill. That is very cool indeed!!
Laurel Johnson
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Nancy Marie
Unity Member
Post Number:
2030
Registered: 08-2001
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, July 31, 2006 - 06:06 pm: | |
That is excellent news. Being a writer we need all the good news we can get, however we can get it since we seem to get so many rejections otherwise. Congrats!
Kitty |
Dennis Collins
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
2028
Registered: 06-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, July 31, 2006 - 08:22 pm: | |
Bill...
I know you're gonna make it one of these days.
Dennis Collins
Moderator
www.theunrealmccoy.com |
Nancy Mehl
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
2525
Registered: 08-2001
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 01, 2006 - 07:27 am: | |
Bill,
That's wonderful news! Good for you!
Nancy
MINDSIGHT MODERATOR
www.nancymehlbooks.com
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Jennifer Lynn
Unity Member
Post Number:
1903
Registered: 03-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 01, 2006 - 07:46 am: | |
Bill,
Cool on the contest! Quarterfinals are pretty damn decent considering the amount of entrants.
Hearing your play read aloud is awesome too! Congratulations!
Jenn
Jennifer Lynn
www.jenniferlynn.ca |
Bill Nelson
Unity Member
Post Number:
2229
Registered: 10-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 01, 2006 - 09:35 am: | |
Thank you all.
Somedays you are the statue and some days you are the pigeon. |
Joyce Scarbrough
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
891
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 01, 2006 - 11:31 am: | |
<sniff> It's so bittersweet when the baby birds leave the nest and fly away!
You're best suited for writing plays, Bill. For both screen and stage. How cool it will be to see your play enacted! I'd love to see mine brought to "life". Get yourself a bumper sticker that says "Hollywood or bust!"
~Joyce Sterling Scarbrough
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Bill Nelson
Unity Member
Post Number:
2230
Registered: 10-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, August 02, 2006 - 10:03 am: | |
(snif) (snif) Gee, thanks, mom.
I hear Mel Gibson is not doing anything right now. Maybe I can get him to produce my next script. It's about an alcoholic Rabbi who hates Gentiles. The idea just came to me out of the blue! |
Claudia Turner VanLydegraf
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
2821
Registered: 06-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, August 02, 2006 - 12:07 pm: | |
good on ya, Bill. you have every right to be proud..... CLAP....CLAP
Claudia
MINDSIGHT MODERATOR
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Sean D. Schaffer
Hunger Member
Post Number:
68
Registered: 10-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, August 04, 2006 - 09:34 pm: | |
Congratulations, Bill. Right on.
http://seandschaffer.blogspot.com/ |
Frederick A. Babb
Hsympothai Member
Post Number:
447
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, August 07, 2006 - 08:29 am: | |
Hi Proud, I'm Fred. Nice to meet you...lol.
Congrats Bill. I have read some of your work and know that you deserved even more. Let this be another step towards the greatness that awaits you.
Preview books: http://www.frederickbabb.bravehost.com |
Bill Nelson
Unity Member
Post Number:
2236
Registered: 10-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, August 07, 2006 - 11:00 am: | |
Again, thank to all for the support.
I've been thinking. Success is an elusive state.
When are we successful? To us, as writers, is it when we are published? Is it when we are on the best sellers list? Is it when we make millions? Could it be when we complete a manuscript, and feel really good about it? How about when we give birth to an idea and start the manuscript?
The path from inception to being a Hemmingway is rife with successes and we should all recognize the events as such. It takes a lot of rain drops to make a flood.
Each raindrop is as important as the other.
Enjoy your many successful events, one at a time, as you go up the road.
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Stephen Lodge
Wandering Member
Post Number:
209
Registered: 06-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, August 07, 2006 - 05:41 pm: | |
"Enjoy your many successful events, one at a time, as you go up the road."
I think you've got something Bill. There is no overall picture for success. Success happens one day at a time, just like life does. Yesterday, a successful movie and television producer, who is also a successful author, called me to tell me he not only loved "Nickel-Plated Dream," but that he was now going to read "Charley Sunday's Texas Outfit!" because he was finally able to see that I was a very good writer. That made me feel successful. Just waiting for another call like it today. So far, nothing. But I still feel I am successful.
So, where's the money?
http://stephenlodge.com
Novels by Stephen Lodge:
"Charley Sunday's Texas Outfit!"
"Nickel-Plated Dream"
"Shadows of Eagles"
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Bill Nelson
Unity Member
Post Number:
2240
Registered: 10-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, August 07, 2006 - 06:08 pm: | |
The money's going to be there when you write an autobiography!
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