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Monday
Oct 23, 2006

Burley Grymz votes with a rhyme posted by Martin

I read your post first, but I promised myself it wouldn’t make an impact on my voting. Am I right? You be the judge.

I asked myself which ones I really want to write. What I’m really excited about? Here’s my list: 6. The Atmospherist So yeah. My blog with Andre. This is where our rules and our head-butting encounter our patience. Guess which one won?

  1. La Commune Planet Good concept — it made it this far, after all — but we’re confused about it, I think, and the work toward creating it would be arduous, I think. I would rather have ardor.

  2. Rasputin the Translator I love this story. It’s a novel, not a screenplay.

  3. The Scabs I love this story. It’s a novel not a screenplay. I think I am going to attempt it as a novel.

Shit. Now I have a touch choice. I can tie us, or I can cast a vote that will put a clear winner in office and we will be on our way to writing. And writing this, I realize I know how I’m going to vote…

  1. Little Black Stray Sad to say, I love this story too fucking much to write it and release it into the public domain. I want to own it. Plus, I think Shockah will rock the motha in NaNoWriMo. Steve: do with it what you will, sir. I would like to read your version too. Which means:

  2. Time to Die Wins. This story is one I love and am interested in, but feel good about placing online for all to have. Out of all the ideas, though, the core of this one has never wavered, always been clear, and we’ve always agreed on it. I understand the motivation, it’s not overly tricky, and would make a solid action piece. I think we’ll be able to nail it, both the action side, and the character side. I’m thinking of Pitch Black in terms of pace and feel, but that’s a conversation we’ll start having now.

So, for the tally conscious, here’s the final points spread:

Atmospherist: 2 points La Commune Planet: 4 points Scabs: 7 points Rasputin: 7 points LBS: 10 points Time to Die: 12 points

Ladies and gentlemen — it’s only taken us 10 months. We have a winner. We will be writing Time To Die. Three cheers!

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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.

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.

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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.