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Wednesday
Jan 25, 2006

Lies, Damn Lies... posted by kza

and the Spitball! General Enthusiasm Meter.

As Burley knows, I have a fondness for statistics, even though I don’t know what most of them mean and I can barely add. But that doesn’t stop me. (Nothing stops the Shockah, man.) Below, using a really stupid formula I invented (that I’m sure anyone can figure out if they tried), I’ve listed the Top 16 story ideas in order of General Enthusiasm, which is based on a 1-100 point scale. It may be a predictor of future success; it could be pure and utter wank; it could be both.

1. The Atheist 94
2. If It Pleases The Court 90
3. Little Black Stray 90
4. Liber XII 86
5. Chimerica 86
6. La Commune Planet 84
7. Robots in Love 78
8. The Exodus 78
9. Rasputin the Translator 76
10. The Infected 76
11. Reminiscence 72
12. Time to Die 72
13. Methane Madness 72
14. Rachel, My Dear 70
15. The Scabs 64
16. Cop on the Hunt 48

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What is Spitball!?

Spitball! is two guys collaborating to write about writing and collaboration. We're writing partners who have worked together since 2000, and placed in the top 100 in the last Project Greenlight for our script YELLOW.

Currently, we are both working on multiple screenplay, short story, and novel ideas independently and together, and collaborate on this blog.

What Spitball! used to be

Spitball! started as an attempt to collaborate on a screenplay online in real time. From January 2006 to July 2007 we worked on an interactive process to decide the story we were going to make. A full postmortem is coming, but you can find the find all the posts by looking in the category Original Version.

During this period, we affected the personalities of two of the most famous spitball pitchers from the early 20th Century. Look at our brief bios for more info about this, and so as not to be confused as to who is talking when.

We rebooted the franchise in early 2009 in its current form.


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Kent M. Beeson

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Kent M. Beeson (aka Urban Shockah) is a stay-at-home dad and stay-at-home writer, living in Seattle, WA with his wife, 2 year old daughter and an insane cat. In 2007, he was a contributor to the film blog ScreenGrab, where he presciently suggested Jackie Earle Haley to play Rorschach in the Watchmen movie, and in 2008, he wrote a film column for the comic-book site ComiXology called The Watchman. (He's a big fan of the book, if you couldn't tell.) In 2009, he gave up the thrill of freelance writing to focus on screenplays and novels, although he sometimes posts to his blog This Can't End Well, which a continuation of his first blog, he loved him some movies. He's a Pisces, and his favorite movie of all time is Jaws. Coincidence? I think not.

Martin McClellan

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Martin (aka Burley Grymz) is a designer and writer. He occasionally blogs at his beloved Hellbox, and keeps a longer ostensibly more interesting bio over here at his eponymous website. You can also find him on Twitter.