Free Tickets To the WGC Awards: A Dead Things Contest

A COUPLE OF entries have trickled in so far. And I must say, props to reader T. who's currently in the lead with an entry that I will never, ever, ever, EVER be able to reproduce here.

But I appreciate the vitriol and what I can only interpret as an effort to invent ENTIRELY NEW SWEAR WORDS. If you missed it the first time, here's the rules... and I've added a THIRD topic for your consideration:

DEAD THINGS ON STICKS WGC SCREENWRITING AWARD
TICKET GIVEAWAY RULES AND REGS


In order to qualify for the ticket giveaway, you have to write something for me. You don't have to be a writer -- the job is open to any kind of broadcast industry professional. Each ticket is a $100 value!

You have a choice of two three topics:

• My Daily Creative Process -- this is the topic of preference, most likely, for writers or aspiring scribes. You can be funny, disconnected and discombobulated, earnest, tongue-in-cheek, reflective, accusatory, weepy, manic, or even creepy (though I'd advise against the latter.) Remember the takeaway: it's fun if you offer some useful tip, hard-earned truth, or simple homespun advice about your secret for getting through the day without letting procrastination defeat you.
  
  If you're not a writer, or if your process is protected like the Colonel's 11 Herbs and Spices (ps. the secret ingredient is fear) you might want to wax eloquent on our other topic:
  
  
• If I Could Change One Thing About My Job --aha..the preferred topic of overworked production secretaries, P.A.'s, story coordinators, 3rd A.D.'s, Closed Captioners, Sales Assistants, Junior Publicists and Hobos. It doesn't have to be a slam-fest. Don't jeopardize your low-paying, low-status position. You can write about your job in the industry, or the job that you do to try and steal some hours to be creative while hoping that you'll graduate one day to having the latter pay the bills.
  
  
• [NEW] Exit the Gas -- What happens when venerable Canadian TV success story Corner Gas leaves the field? Will it be immediate chaos? Will Little Mosque finally start winning awards? Will crazed prairie hordes descend on the cities since there's no longer not a lot going on? Will another show step up to become Canada's best-loved homegrown series? Will Jon Dore get the Order of Canada? Any nightmare scenario, fabulist fantasy, or wish fulfilling, odd and twisted conspiracy theory you want to envision -- let'er rip.
  

Obviously, these shouldn't be screeds designed as a cry for help or a settling of scores. Any essays of this type will be disqualified.

The essays (800 words max) can be submitted by email to heywriterboy@hotmail.com They should also include a description of yourself, up to 15 words in length, and phone & email contact information (which will not be shared with telemarketers, government officials, or online dating services) so I can get in touch with you. The subject heading should be "DTOS Screenwriting Awards Contest Entry."

HOW YOU WIN:

There are two tickets available. They will be awarded thusly:

ONE TICKET & THE CANADIAN SCREENWRITER SUBSCRIPTION will be awarded to the essay judged the best overall. The decisions of the Sticksville Judges is final, and involves a highly technical process employing super intelligent readers, helper monkeys, and a poultice made from the tears of unicorns. That essay will be reproduced in this space. The winner will also be entitled to be referred to at the awards as "the Squire of Sticksville."

ONE TICKET will be awarded in a RANDOMLY SELECTED DRAW of all entrants.

By submitting to the contest, you give Dead Things ON Sticks the right to reproduce any part of your essay.

There you go. Tickets are non-transferrable. To claim tickets, winners will have to show I.D. at the door of the awards.

DEADLINE FOR ENTRY is 5:00 p.m., FRIDAY APRIL 10th.