Scene 53: Interview with November’s Short Feature Winner, Shirley Nichol

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Welcome to The Script Mistress, where we dive into the world of screenwriting. I'm your host, Amber Bosworth. In this episode, I sat down with the winner of our first ever short feature challenge in November, Shirley Nichol.

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We launched the first Short Feature Challenge in November. Over 20 writers were challenged to write a complete feature within 30-60 pages. They had 30 days to complete a full feature with a beginning, middle, and end. This challenge also came with a prompt. In this, we set the challenge on three different area prompts that had to be used somehow in their script.

Her script, Untethered, is about a troubled middle schooler who travels through a wormhole into a fantastical world where she will discover the true meaning of family. Shirley expertly blended fantasy with reality and created a script that will be incredible on the screen.

Shirley has also won one of our monthly Short screenwriting challenges. You can read her short feature and the two other finalists at www.thescriptmistress.com/inkwinners. And stay tuned. We will have another chance at the short feature again this year, maybe very soon.

The January Short Screenwriting Challenge is finishing today, but check out the fun for February. You never know what you’ll learn about your writing.

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