FlexRex: Fictional Blogger

Lately I've found that contests are an effective means of combatting Writer's Block. The folks over at NYC Midnight were hosting a scriptwriting contest recently, so I decided to enter.

They give you a genre and a topic to work with and one week to complete a script of up to 15 pages. My assignment was to write a suspense film with a magnet in it. The magnet part is what they call in the industry a "Macguffin," which is incidental to the real story.

So I entered "Jigsaw Falling into Place" with this tagline:

"Angie Davis has vanished. As Caleb tries to find her, the lodestone is the only clue to her fate."

And that was so much fun that I decided to adapt the story for the Radiohead video contest I blogged about the other day.

Ed note: I took fifth place in my heat. Not enough to win money, but considering how many I was up against, I'll take it as encouragement ;-)