Final Draft Big Break 2022

 Just submitted Personal Demons to the Final Draft Big Break Screenplay Competition.

 

When they asked for "notes to your reader" I put in that field:

"I wrote this script in the summer of 2015.
Since then it has been a semi-finalists in the Shriekfest screenplay competition (2016), won First Place at the Fade In Magazine Horror Screenplay Competition (2018),  was included as an official selection at the Oregon Scream Week Horror Film Festival (2019), was an “Honorable Mention” at the Astrophobia Science Fiction & Horror Film Festival in Courtenay, BC, Canada (2021) and was an official selection of the American Horror Film Festival (2021). "

At first I wanted to elaborate on why I was including the year I wrote the script. I wanted to spell out for them that, despite its similarities to Stranger Things (which premiered in fall 2016) and the new adaptation of Stephen King's It (which premiered in fall 2017), I actually beat both of them to the punch (and I had never seen the made-for-TV adaptation of It, nor read the novel). 

But... I didn't want to put ideas into their heads preemptively (especially if they're not horror fans and have never seen either of the aforementioned films/TV shows). 

I figure I would just let the season and year speak for itself.

As for my long list of accolades Personal Demons has accrued, I figured that would just heighten their interest in it. Hopefully it doesn't sound pretentious and turn them off of the script. 

But, honestly, with PitchFest in a few weeks, Fresh Blood after that and having just made my second submission of 2022, I am feeling more enthused and motivated than ever to sit down and write today (in my latest horror script, Wolves at the Door) and to hurry up and revise my older scripts to get them into submission shape for other screenplay competitions.