Writing Life: CONNECTION Named Semi-Finalist in TVWriter's People's Pilot Competition
Is it just me or has it been way too long since I announced some more contest news? (Or it just feels that way to me, at least.)
Woody knows how I feel.
Anyway, I've been on tenterhooks all week as there are several contests announcing in the next 24 hours or so, and I'm curious (read: terrified/excited) to see if I've advanced to higher rounds (finalists, etc.) or make the cut in the early rounds in a bunch of competitions.
But good news: My drama pilot script CONNECTION was named a semi-finalist this morning in TVWriter.Com's People's Pilot Competition:
“TVWriter™ congratulates all the Semi-Finalists. Your work is awesome.
We keep saying this, but that’s because it’s true: This time around, the overall quality of the entries greatly exceeded our expectations. Last year, we explained how difficult it was for the judges to make their decisions by pointing out that literally every Semi-Finalist in that year’s competition could have been a Top 5 placer in previous runnings of the PEOPLE’S PILOT. This year, the same holds true.
This time around, the median entry score in the Comedy Script category was a whopping 7.95, while the median Drama & Action category score was 7.75. The competition in the upper atmosphere of entries was especially strong in Drama & Action, with 5 different scripts scoring 9.00 points or more out of a possible 10.00 and the cut-off point for Semi-Finalists was an incredibly high 8.40.
Inasmuch as the PEOPLE’S PILOT considers a score of 7.00 as signifying Professional quality, it’s clear that on the whole the PEOPLE’S PILOT 2017 entries were Very Professional Indeed.
In short, we believe that all of those who entered this year should be very proud of themselves…and hope that at the very least all of the Semi-Finalists above will treat themselves to the most awesome celebration they can!”
Which: WOW. I love seeing a breakdown of the score cutoffs within a competition, especially when the cutoffs are so impressively high. And I feel really honored that CONNECTION, which is a script I really believe in and love, was selected for the semi-finalist round, joining 16 other drama scripts.
A full list of the semi-finalists can be found at the TVWriter site.