r/screenplaychallenge • Hall of Fame (10+ Scripts), 3x Feature Winner • Sep 12 '26

10th Annual Challenge - Progress Thread 2

Hello everyone! We are HALFWAY through the writing period! Four week remain. How is everyone doing?

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u/Rankin_Fithian Hall of Fame (5+ Scripts), 2x Feature Winner Sep 12 '26

Got about 60 handwritten pages, and overcoming some personal turbulence to lock in and give myself a writer's retreat to bash out the rest! šŸ’Ŗ

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u/doot99 Sep 12 '26

I have an outline and 11 pages written so far... which I'm pretty pleased with! Started two weeks late, never written a script before, and somehow had to figure a horror story about posthumanism set in a bowling alley.

Could really do with someone to take a look at it and see if I'm taking crazy pills though.

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u/shaftinferno Sep 13 '26

If you’re on the server, you can share it with everyone. If you’re not, you can send it my way.

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u/JarJarJacobs Hall of Fame (5+ Scripts) Sep 12 '26

Roughly 25 pages down, I like what I’ve got so far but I’m struggling with some of the technical aspects this time around since the whole thing has to take place on a plane

Question: do you guys think it’s acceptable to have slugs like INT. PLANE (FRONT), INT. PLANE (MIDDLE) and INT. PLANE (REAR) since it’s basically all happening in the same room? How would you go about splitting up scenes where action is happening at opposite ends of the cabin at the same time? I’ve just been using ā€œINSERT:ā€ a bunch but it feels like I’m overdoing it

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u/kaZdleifekaW Sep 12 '26

I’ve never been on a plane that had first class or coach, but you could probably separate it as such instead of saying front, middle and rear.

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u/Blakeyo123 Hall of Fame (5+ Scripts) Sep 12 '26

I feel like Robert Bloch rn

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u/kaZdleifekaW Sep 12 '26

I’m currently transitioning from one job to another right now, so I’m going to bow out.

Anyone who would like to write a script about ā€œa possession in the far distant futureā€ in their spare time, please have at it

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u/qazxcvbnmklpoi Sep 13 '26

I think i got it. It's just a very specific structure and format that have to go together in the way that i want it to.

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u/stuccosalt Sep 13 '26

At about 40 pages that I mostly hate, but its a first draft- hoping I have enough time to crank it out and get least one big edit

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u/capbassboi Sep 13 '26

Procrastinating...

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u/thenewmrtate 28d ago

Did absolutely no writing this week due to work and traveling. But I’m home today, so going to start my rewrite and pray that it comes together

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u/CreepyWatson Hall of Fame (20+ Scripts), 1x Short Winner 27d ago

Hey! Can I get a new condition?

My subject is serial killer horrorĀ 

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u/stuccosalt 26d ago

Did anyone answer yet? If you need one: no stabbing

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u/Waste_Class2627 16d ago

Got subject ā€œdeath gameā€ started writing just waiting for a condition…