David Thurston has... » Contests http://www.dlthurston.com/blog ...a blog Wed, 02 Jun 2010 18:54:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Copyright © David Thurston has... 2010 DLThurston@hotmail.com (David Thurston has...) DLThurston@hotmail.com (David Thurston has...) posts ...a blog David Thurston has... David Thurston has... DLThurston@hotmail.com No no http://www.dlthurston.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg David Thurston has... http://www.dlthurston.com/blog 144 144 …faced down rejection. http://www.dlthurston.com/blog/2009/06/16/faced-down-rejection/ http://www.dlthurston.com/blog/2009/06/16/faced-down-rejection/#comments Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:48:24 +0000 David Thurston http://www.dlthurston.com/blog/?p=33 Got informed yesterday that The Doorman did not make the finalist cut in the Rod Serling competition.  My congratualations to those who did, none of whom are likely reading this, so I could probably say some equally nasty things, but I won’t.

No word from Writers of the Future about Queen of Belmeth yet.  Which has me rather more optimistic than it probably should.  Last two times I entered the WotF contest, I had my rejection firmly in hand by the first week of the judging month, which I think is to encourage people to turn something around and get it in before the next deadline.  We’re now past the halfway mark in June, and I still haven’t seen that little SASE in the mail.  Which could be a good thing.  Or could be them just running a little slower this quarter.  Or me mis-addressing my SASE.  It could be any number of things other than good news.

But it could be good news.  So until I have reason to doubt that, I’ll choose to keep hope alive.

Though I have no idea what I’ll submit this month if that SASE does come back with rejection.

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Contests:  End of March I entered both Writers of the Future and the Rod Serling Screenwriting contests.  Writers got Belmeth, Serling got a teleplay adaptation of Doorman that I was much happier with than at any point when it was a short story.  Writers has been encouraging lately, as I got a hand-written “Keep Entering!” from the contest head on my last rejection, as well as an email that started “Welcome back!” when they said Belmeth had arrived.  So while I’m not doing well enough to be an honorable mention, I’m at least doing well enough to maintain a little name recognition.

Shame it’s blind judging.  Oh well.

Arkham:  Been working on the new pilot with Blythe, and we’re both liking it better than the original pilot.  Lots of monsters and blood and ooze and body parts and screaming.  Which I think will bring more people into the show than kidnapping and some stuff that, if I’m to be honest with myself, was largely ripped off from X-Files black oil.

Capsule:  Been world-building, and am going to present what I have of it tonight at CVS for comments and to see what kind of questions people have about it.

Hench:  New project, don’t know where it’ll go yet.

Conqueror Worm:  Just as soon as this draft of Arkham is done.  Probably mid-May.

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