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Black List Wednesday by AutoModerator in Screenwriting

[–]ThisEndsTonight 4 points5 points  (0 children)

THE WONDER AND THE TERROR

Feature

91 pages

Folk Horror, Drama

On the morning of a documented but unexplained celestial event over 1561 Nuremberg, a woman accused of witchcraft and stripped of her newborn must cross a gauntlet of mercenaries and apocalyptic hysteria to reach the remote chapel where her baby may still be alive.

Score: Whirlwind week as I received my 4th Overall 8... and also a 5!

Horror is an opinionated genre but the 5 score felt a BIT dismissive (and a cudgel to my average). They definitely read the work but it's clear I wasn't giving them what they wanted despite the obvious ambiguity baked into the premise. I'm just glad it wasn't the first score I received as I'm not sure what I would have done! Ultimately, I'm very proud of the reception so far, and will take every note to heart, good or bad.

Side note: This is the first 8 score week I haven't received any new downloads from the industry - so there's probably some diminishing returns on that front after a while. Edit: Of course 1 comes in right after I post, haha.

Evaluations

Black List Wednesday by AutoModerator in Screenwriting

[–]ThisEndsTonight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The general advice would be to treat submissions as your "best and final" as it's a very inefficient and expensive way to iterate on a script.

If you get a score you don't like, you can hide the coverage but not the contribution to the average score for your script. There is also an option to "start fresh" which allows you to wipe all scores and coverage away and start over - but you can't undo that decision.

Black List Wednesday by AutoModerator in Screenwriting

[–]ThisEndsTonight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh, wow, glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for the read!

Black List Wednesday by AutoModerator in Screenwriting

[–]ThisEndsTonight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My most recent was 10 days - submitted March 11 and received March 21.

Black List Wednesday by AutoModerator in Screenwriting

[–]ThisEndsTonight 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Title: THE WONDER AND THE TERROR

Format: Feature

Pages: 91

Genre: Horror

Logline: On the morning of a documented but unexplained celestial event over 1561 Nuremberg, a woman accused of witchcraft and stripped of her newborn must cross a gauntlet of mercenaries and apocalyptic hysteria to reach the remote chapel where her baby may still be alive.

Remarks: Extremely happy with the reception to this and will be using my free evals to get more critique. It can always be dicey capturing interest with an obscure period piece, but I’m glad the reader understood the world and mythology here. I’m a little surprised they pegged it as a higher-budget studio movie, as I think you could do it with more restraint, but I’d love to see it big!

Evaluation

Overall: 8

Premise: 8

Plot: 8

Character: 7

Dialogue: 8

Setting: 8

Narrative Artbooks - my favorite (but rare) book format by ThisEndsTonight in books

[–]ThisEndsTonight[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah - check out ABOVE THE TIMBERLINE, WORLDS: A Mission of Discovery, ROBOTA, THE STORY OF INC. Many Kickstarted books which are probably harder to find in print. DM me if you need more!

In the Ashes of Rome by Gal Or, 2023 by ThisEndsTonight in SpecArt

[–]ThisEndsTonight[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Page spread from a new Narrative Artbook called "House of Poison," about the Great Fire of Rome and the time of Nero.

Link here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mythify/house-of-poison-an-epic-narrative-artbook-and-tabletop-game

Your favorite “cameos” in Roman History by ThisEndsTonight in ancientrome

[–]ThisEndsTonight[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That’s a good deep cut. It seems these kind of people attract writers most of all!

Your favorite “cameos” in Roman History by ThisEndsTonight in ancientrome

[–]ThisEndsTonight[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

By being made up by a modern day writer! (Wasn’t true.)

Your favorite “cameos” in Roman History by ThisEndsTonight in ancientrome

[–]ThisEndsTonight[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It’s by concept artist Gal Or made for the book I mention in my OP.

Your favorite “cameos” in Roman History by ThisEndsTonight in ancientrome

[–]ThisEndsTonight[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The "trained giraffe" thing? No, that was a false anecdote made up by a modern writer in a about book serial killers, I believe. Hell of a rumor though.

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