The Creator Posted August 3, 2012 Share Posted August 3, 2012 (edited) Notepad = success...but now I have to break everything into their original paragraphs. Oh joy.Also, I can't spoiler tag it, because for some reason when I've been using spoiler tags on things recently, only the first paragraph appears.Well let me test: HelloHello again EDIT: Spoiler problem fixed! Edited August 3, 2012 by The Creator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riczhang Posted August 3, 2012 Share Posted August 3, 2012 How did you solve the spoiler tag problem? Encountered that too, with my films in Year 3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Creator Posted August 3, 2012 Share Posted August 3, 2012 (edited) I don't know. It fixed itself. Sometimes it doesn't work for me when I put things in spoiler tags in the Box Office Alliance forum, but I've never experienced that problem in other forums.Also, to Numbers, when you get the chance please add the page number (page 2) to The Road Home's first date (December 5) so people know what page it's on. Last I checked it wasn't listed with a page number. Edited August 3, 2012 by The Creator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electric Posted August 3, 2012 Share Posted August 3, 2012 I will be adding most of my plots tomorrow. Hopefully will have a shot at something, but either I'll make it too simple (and most people won't like it) or too confusing (and Impact will not enjoy it at all) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Creator Posted August 3, 2012 Share Posted August 3, 2012 Too confusing...and it will probably land number 1 on my list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electric Posted August 3, 2012 Share Posted August 3, 2012 Our City and Summer Jobs are done. Suicide King has just a bit on it. Not expecting a huge success this year, though I hope for some Box Office successes. It seems almost all my films have been quite profitable but I haven't had the big totals that some had. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electric Posted August 3, 2012 Share Posted August 3, 2012 Continuing my tradition from Years 1 and 2 with making a good film in February. Phone conversations with mother is up and ready to be disliked mildly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthdevidem01 Posted August 4, 2012 Share Posted August 4, 2012 (edited) Writing the currently untitled drama/romance movie. It's turning out to be pretty long...do we have a set word limit? Edited August 4, 2012 by darthdevidem01 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electric Posted August 4, 2012 Share Posted August 4, 2012 Not really. I think the longest are 10,000 or so. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4815162342 Posted August 4, 2012 Author Share Posted August 4, 2012 Writing the currently untitled drama/romance movie. It's turning out to be pretty long...do we have a set word limit?No but do what you can to trim out unnecessary fluff and description in the text.After Knahera: Land of Dreams (way before all of your times except Impact, Electric, and Creator)...no more behemoth plots please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthdevidem01 Posted August 4, 2012 Share Posted August 4, 2012 (edited) No but do what you can to trim out unnecessary fluff and description in the text.After Knahera: Land of Dreams (way before all of your times except Impact, Electric, and Creator)...no more behemoth plots please.Cool I'll try to cut out fluff. How big was that movies plot in word count? What was its fate at the box office lol?Not really. I think the longest are 10,000 or so.Shouldn't be over 5,000..possibly less. Edited August 4, 2012 by darthdevidem01 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Community Manager Water Bottle Posted August 4, 2012 Community Manager Share Posted August 4, 2012 After Knahera: Land of Dreams (way before all of your times except Impact, Electric, and Creator)...no more behemoth plots please. <_<I was there. I remember asking for a word limit after that film but everyone turned me down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Community Manager Water Bottle Posted August 4, 2012 Community Manager Share Posted August 4, 2012 Silly question: when's the deadline? I won't be able to start writing any films until Monday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4815162342 Posted August 4, 2012 Author Share Posted August 4, 2012 (edited) Cool I'll try to cut out fluff. How big was that movies plot in word count? What was its fate at the box office lol?It was I want to say around 8,000 words. There have been several movies far longer than that (mainly me and Ueka being the guilty parties), but Knahera: Land of Dreams was by the far the most tedious read of any CAYOM film ever. All description and style with no substance. Edited August 4, 2012 by 4815162342 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Creator Posted August 4, 2012 Share Posted August 4, 2012 Well now I'm trying to cap out at 8,000 max and if, like this year, I have a lot of films, I'll shorten some/most of them so that only the ones I really, really like get more detail...like this year's The Road Home.Also, I remember Knahera...it was 14,000 words long. Obliteration was also more than 14,000 words and was at one point 16,500 words before I cut it down. And One Night in Reality was 13,500+ words. Loooong. I was probably the most guilty of this because eventually even my semi-fillers were pushing 3,000 words, and my big films always tended to fall between 8,000 and 12,000 or more. I won't do that anymore, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4815162342 Posted August 4, 2012 Author Share Posted August 4, 2012 Damn, it was so tedious I blocked out 6,000 words of it!!!!!!!!!!!!Obliteration was fucking long as hell, but it was an exciting read because every couple thousand words another major character would get murderized and I wanted to see if Ueka really would eliminate his entire cast (he came very close).I'm also back to using restraint. Any uber-long film I have from 1.0 that will get used is going to be heavily edited to remove at least 15-20% of the original word count. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Creator Posted August 4, 2012 Share Posted August 4, 2012 Hey, you kinda barely spoiled Obliteration for those who haven't read it yet... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4815162342 Posted August 4, 2012 Author Share Posted August 4, 2012 Hey, you kinda barely spoiled Obliteration for those who haven't read it yet... They'll forget by the time Year 8/9/10 or whenever it gets released comes around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4815162342 Posted August 5, 2012 Author Share Posted August 5, 2012 Silly question: when's the deadline? I won't be able to start writing any films until Monday.To answer this, I am going to be out of the country between the evening of August 8th and sometime in the afternoon or evening of August 12th. While I would have internet access to pop in to say hello if needed, I'll be far too occupied to do any work regarding CAYOM. So, not until the end of the following weekend I'd say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dark Alfred Posted August 5, 2012 Share Posted August 5, 2012 I'm busy this week, but will get a few films done by the end of the next weekend for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
