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I Entered MoviePoet’s 2012 Logline Contest

In January, MoviePoet conducts their annual logline contest. For those of you who do not know what a logline is, think “blurb” from a t.v. guide. A logline is a sentence or two that hopefully entices us to want to watch the movie. For me, writing a logline is more difficult than writing a screenplay. It is difficult to condense 110 pages into a couple of sentences.

Because I’m so busy with two novels, I wasn’t going to enter this year’s contest but this morning I woke up with an idea I couldn’t turn my back on.

The MoviePoet logline contest is the first stage of a feature-length screenplay contest. The top 30 loglines advance to the second stage where the first ten pages of their screenplays can be submitted. The top ten writers in this stage advance to the third stage, where the entire screenplay is presented.

I have entered this contest twice before and my logline has NEVER advanced.  I have always considered three my lucky number so we’ll see if my logline progresses to the second stage of the contest this year.

Amazon Breakthrough Novel Contest

This week-end will be spent getting my entry ready for Amazon’s Breakthrough Novel Contest.  Amazon will accept entries on January 23rd.  When they have received 5,000 entries they will not accept anymore. If they do not get 5,000 entries, they will stop accepting submissions on February 5th.

Yes, I’m entering Windfall. The manuscript is ready… I just have to get the files ready to upload. In addition to the entire manuscript, I will upload a 3,000-5,000 word excerpt and a “pitch”. The files have to be in an accepted format (.doc, .docx, .rtf, or .txt.).

Winners of this contest wil get a contract with the Penguin Group (U.S.A.).. And, yes, I would love to win. Finalists will be announced in May and the winner will be announced in June.

The Future of the WINDFALL Screenplay

The novel, WINDFALL, was based on a screenplay I’d already written with the same title.

Now that the novel is published on Amazon, I’ve decided to “tweak” the screenplay and submit it to AMAZON STUDIOS. Who knows, maybe some day the story will be made into a feature, too.

Why am I tweaking the script? Well, when I wrote the novel, the story changed and some of those changes are definite improvements to the original story. So, I’m returning to the screenplay to incorporate those changes.

Follow the progress on this blog, my “writing journey”!

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