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Feb 18, 2006

Re: Round Six: Rise to Vote, sir posted by kza

Anyway, I didn’t realize we were doing treatments during this heat!

Yeeeeahhh… Couple things about that:

1. I really had no intention of writing something so long. It was just an idea that I was trying hard to express, and in order to do it justice, it got longer and longer. I’m not particularly proud of the length, and I’m going to try not to do that again for the remainder of the heats. Well, until the last one that is…

2. And yet, I don’t really consider what I wrote to be a treatment. This might be scary, but I’m thinking the treatments in the final heat should be at least twice as long, if not longer. I think they should be detailed enough that we could write a screenplay from them with little difficulty — the only things, really, separating it from a screenplay would be dialogue and whatever “style” we bring to the storytelling. Since I’m sure we’ll be discussing the final heat later on, I’ll explain what I mean by that later.

I’m not totally connecting with yours.

Oh well, I tried! At the very least, the exercise was bracing.

And so, after spending four days laboriously trying to communicate a vision of Reminiscence that I think I could get behind, I rise to vote for….

Time to Die.

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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.

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