*OWC = One Week Challenge…
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Happy Mother’s Day.

In celebration thereof, I present to you twenty six original scripts for your reading pleasure.

– Don

Over on the Original Scripts page are 18 original scripts for your reading pleasure.

– Don

Over on the Unproduced Scripts page are fifteen original scripts including the two finalist from the Writers’ Tournament – Paul Knauer (PKCardinal) and Dave Lambertson (eldave1).

– Don

Cherry Blossom (14 pages in pdf format) by Cameron Dueker

With the Trinity Test failed, two US Marines and two Japanese schoolgirls fight to survive Operation Olympic, the American invasion of Japan.

Listen to the script

Cherry Blossom by Cameron Dueker [ 20:56 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (2021)

About the writer: Cameron Dueker is an ambitious amateur screenwriter by night and high school history teacher by day. He is currently writing shorts for the YouTube cartoon series Car City and developing a graphic novel based on his passion project, a western script entitled, No Beans In The Wheel. When he is not writing he enjoys reading about military history, surfing, day dreaming about improbable new business ideas and sharing his geekier hobbies with his younger daughter. He can be reached at CameronDueker (a) gmail.

The January 2018 Two Week Challenge was a short screenwriting exercise wherein writers are given two weeks to write a short script on the theme and genre provided. These are quickly done and may be a little rough around the edges considering the short time frame in which they are written.

Note: This audio recording is released under a Creative Commons, attribution, noncommercial, no derivatives 3.0 license. You can share the audio recording in its entirety, but you can’t change it or sell it.

This screenplay may not be used or reproduced for any purpose including educational purposes without the expressed written permission of the author.

Thanks to S.D. for the heads up on this.

Arnold of Saratoga – January, 1965 unproduced draft screen treatment by David O. Selznick – hosted by: Scribed – in pdf format

Benedict Arnold was an early American hero of the Revolutionary War. Arnold participated in the capture of the British garrison of Fort Ticonderoga. Later, he hindered a British invasion of New York at the Battle of Lake Champlain. The following year, he played a crucial role in bringing about the surrender of the British at Saratoga. Yet Arnold felt he never received the recognition he thought he deserved. In 1779, he entered into secret negotiations with the British, agreeing to turn over the U.S. post at West Point in return for money and a command in the British army. The plot was discovered, but Arnold escaped to British lines.

This is a screen treatment for a biopic of Benedict Arnold by David O. Selznick. 1965.

Information courtesy of imdb.com

Over on the Original Scripts page are twenty seven original scripts for your reading pleasure.

– Don

Just Coffee by Matthew Dressell

A customer angers the assistant manager at a diner when he takes advantage of the restaurant’s “Free Refill” policy.

Just Coffee was featured prominently on SimplyScirpts and went through the critique process there as well. It has made the rounds at festival and now Matthew has posted it for all to see.

Discuss on the discussion board.

Over on the Original Unproduced Scripts page are twenty original scripts for your reading pleasure.

– Don