Huh. Nearly there then. :-)

I went through my script again today, fixing all the things I decided really needed fixing.
That amounted to about three lines.

Nobody dies. I'm cool with that. Nobody swears. I feel that's perfectly reasonable. The only thing I might want to do is to add a little sequence from Life Before, but then you lose some of the claustrophobic feel, so probably not.

... hardly anyone has given me any feedback. Mostly people have said they'd read it and then had other stuff to do. Oh well.

But! I spent much longer today fiddling about trying to get the formatting right (things in brackets have to go indented, dialogue shouldn't go over the end of the page, INT wherever gets underlined) than I did fiddling with actual words. Also I got the locations consistent. Mostly. Probably. As close as I can manage.

So that means I'm down to the specifics to meet submission guidelines:

Submitting to writersroom

A submission for a proposed returning series should consist of a full episode script (between 45-60 minutes) and be accompanied by the following:

* suggested storylines for at least six episodes - the idea must have the potential to run for at least three series of six episodes
* how you envisage the characters will develop through the series, both in their professional and domestic lives
* a sense of how an idea will appeal to the broadest possible audience demographic


A submission for a proposed serial should comprise the first fully scripted episode of an original idea, together with a synopsis of the remaining episodes.

Got script. Meant to be a series.
Come up with six episodes. Do not visibly rip them from Blakes 7. Or Doctor Who. Or Farscape. Or Sliders. But if you stir all those together I think that works out as 'research'...
... it started as genderflipped Blakes 7. That ran to 4 seasons. Even if you leave out the rubbish ones that means there's lots of mileage in the setup. But if I say that, I don't look terribly original.
(I have six episodes. I have 3 sets of six. ... I just typo that the obvious way. I need plots that are not just slash cliches... probably. I mean, 'everyone is in pairs in lifepods' is a classic, right?)

Character development is the easy bit, except they want short not book length.

How it appeals to the broadest possible audience demographic... well, it has a wide age range of characters, both men and women, lots of different ethnic backgrounds, and some queer characters. As long as the audience likes spaceships and space adventure, and oh look 13 million at Christmas it appears they do, that should be sorted.



And then of course:

PUT MY NAME AND ADDRESS ON THE FRONT
... the emailable copy hasn't got that. It would be really stupid to forget that bit.

Print out single sided in black on white A4 paper in Courier Final Draft 12 pt font.
Make holes in it.
Put metal thingies through holes to hold the pages together.

Make a stamped self-addressed envelope, making sure that the envelope is large enough to return my script to me.

Buy another envelope

Put an address on it:
BBC writersroom
1st Floor, Grafton House
379 Euston Road
London
NW1 3AU

Take to post office



... get all that done by September 14th.
On September 15th and 0900 I re-enrol on my degree course. I can do the printing and sending that day.

Dear Internet: plz write me a sonnet

So you know how I wrote a sonnet about Jack and Ianto?

It was about season 1 of Torchwood so it's totally out of date now.
Season 2 needs a sonnet which acknowledges the presence of porn on TV :-)
And Season 3 needs a sonnet which admits the presence of Ianto in the 53rd century.

... but I have to go back to college and study things that are not sonnets.
So: competition!


... yes I know probably nobody wants to play.

But it's fun.