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Am I the only person here from the Northwest Ontario?

Kurry Fiddler — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:28:57 -0700

Feelin' rather lonely way up here in Thunder Bay. Guess I'm the only person up here. I'm looking forward for this thing! I'm so stoked, even my wife is feeling it.

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Hammerwrimos, Hamiltonians, and friends, lend us your scripts!

girlwithapearl — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:55:23 -0700

Hamilton!

Chrisk0, the more the merrier.

Let's start pulling the herd in (oops, should we think of them as cow-scripters?)

Check in here and let's start writin' in...

Rhonda.

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Peterborough and Area

jerm — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:09:20 -0700

Anyone in the Peterborough area giving it a shot?

Check in.

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Hey folks!

Scott H. — Mon, 3 Mar 2008 20:52:03 -0800

My name is Scott, and I'm the ML for Waterloo, and probably Kitchener. I'm the guy to come to if you have any questions. I'm just trying to see who's participating in KW! so sound off in the forums.

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KW Questions, Queries and Hangout

Scott H. — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 19:02:50 -0700

So I think I'll have the kickoff this coming Friday. Let's say around 7:30-10:00ish at Mel's Diner. Everyone knows where that is right? I can see about moving it to another location if possible.

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Anyone from Windsor?

theinkworm — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:48:42 -0700

Is anyone here from Windsor?

I know I've met one so far.

Please reply and let me know.

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Ray Morton - A Reader Who Writes

KerrDorval — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:23:53 -0700

If you read scr(i)pt magazine, you'll be familiar with Ray Morton. He's a professional reader and very good at explaining what you should know in order to make it past him and on to the people who make the money decision.

Here are some of his articles:

http://raymorton.com/articlescolumns.html

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Searching for Inspiration - the Works of Others

KerrDorval — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:20:53 -0700

I was directed to this recently, but don't recall whence I got the information. It's a 'screen play search engine'

http://wlasola.googlepages.com/screenplay

It sends you off in all sorts of directions but I did find that not all screenplay sites are useful. Some, in fact, are total crap and are only of use to those who are passionate about pop-ups and enjoy invasive cursor software.

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TriggerStreet - Helpful for Getting Read

KerrDorval — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:14:42 -0700

During our meeting in Hamilton I mentioned a site developed by Kevin Spacey's production company, Trigger Street. The site's name (inventively enough) is TriggerStreet and it's at www.triggerstreet.com

Once you join, you can cover the works of others (something I'm good at) and upload some of your own. There is a judicial system for dealing with unfair or useless reviews, or for dealing with works not in keeping with proper format.

There is a also a forum, in which I've invested very little time. I see people with hundreds of posts and I wonder if they spent more time actually writing and less time writing about writing, would they be someplace?

Of course nothing beats professional coverage, but if you want to get some rough notes on your rough drafts, it's a good start.

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Hamilton SFers - Opening my DVDs

KerrDorval — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 19:57:46 -0700

It was brief (for me) but I thoroughly enjoyed the meeting today at Cafe Daneva.

I mentioned my DVD collection and want to invite you to check them out and (this is a big thing for me) let me know if there's any you'd like to borrow. As long as you promise to return it sometime in 2008, I'm okay handing them over.

If you need some inspiration for simple ideas, even reading the covers can spark some thoughts.

http://www.invelos.com/dvdcollection.aspx/cooties

My collection is built upon the Rotten Tomatoes yearly lists, MetaCritics lists, AFI's Top 100, and IMDb's Top 250. I do have some crap ('Manos: Hands of Fate' and 'Ballistic') bought because, well, why not?

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London town

gekk — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:02:38 -0700

Hi. I'm starting this thread so Londoners can find each other easily in the Ontario, Canada forum.

As for me, I did NaNoWriMo in November 2007 and liked it so much, I'm planning to do ScriptFrenzy in April 2008.

Anyone here in London done this before?

Gekk

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Ottawa Online Write-Ins.

kay.tabin — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:08:39 -0700

Hey everyone.

I'm Kay, the ML for Ottawa. This year I have decided to run "Online Write-ins" as an alternative to those who can not make the write-ins.

I wanted to extend an invitation to all other Ontarians to join our Online Write-ins.

We will be using MSN to host these write-ins. If you are interested in participating, please send me a Frenzy Mail so that I can provide you with my MSN email.

I will be posting on the Ottawa forums the dates and times that I will be hosting these write-ins. Usually there will be two-hours daily, often more.

These Online Write-ins will be a group chat where you can discuss your plot, characters and your experiences so far as well as participate in Timed Writing Challenges.

Everyone is welcome to participate.

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