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Writer's Block

May 31, 2014
By JacketUniverse BRONZE, Chicago, Illinois
JacketUniverse BRONZE, Chicago, Illinois
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WILLA- 17 year old female
JACOB- 4 year old male
THOMAS- Jacob's 5 year old brother

WILLA stares down at the blank paper in front of her. She writes a few words, then stops and stares out the window. We follow her gaze and see JACOB and THOMAS playing in the street.

JACOB: Hey! You're hogging the ball!

THOMAS: I'm not; it's mine! It's mine, so I can play with it for as long as I want.

Camera pans out to WILLA again. WILLA smiles and rolls her eyes. She looks back at her paper. She moves her pencil as if about to write, then stops.

THOMAS: Hey! You scratched me! Say sorry.

JACOB: I didn't even touch you!

WILLA puts her hands over her ears, trying to block out the yelling.

THOMAS: Did too!

JACOB: Didn't!

THOMAS: Did too!

WILLA stares intensely at her paper. The boys' yells are muffled, but still a distraction. She then glances at her watch, and then stares back at the largely blank paper. WILLA writes: My Story- By Willa Brown.

WILLA crosses out what she wrote.

JACOB: No, I did not! You're such a liar! Liar, Liar!

THOMAS and JACOB yell, their voices muffled. WILLA lays her head sideways on her desk. She straightens pencils, moves stationary around. Abruptly, she stands. The camera stays focused on her spinning chair as WILLA walks out of the room. The boys' muffled yells continue.
After several moments...

JACOB: Hey!

The yelling stops. There is an eery silence. WILLA arrives back in her seat and picks up her pencil. She begins to write fervently. The camera moves out and we see the street where the boys were. THOMAS's ball rolls slowly down the street, THOMAS and JACOB are nowhere in sight.


The author's comments:
A short screenplay about a young writer who is irked by two young distractions.

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on Jun. 20 2014 at 5:51 pm
JacketUniverse BRONZE, Chicago, Illinois
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Thanks for the feedback! I just learn from reading the screenplays of my favorite TV shows. I'll try to make it more eery at the end, thanks!

AliceCullen said...
on Jun. 19 2014 at 11:31 am
Awesome script! Where did you learn to write scripts? I learned in radio drama, but I didn't think you were taking a class or something. I think you should make the ending a little more eerie more so that it seems the boys actually disappeared, because it seemed to me that they just decided to leaver her alone or something. Generally, it was pretty good.