Sunday 8 March 2009

Finalists in Write101 Competition

The six finalists in the Write101 Soapie Competition are below. Please vote for your favourite by clicking on the relevant number in the Poll at the end of the entries.

Thanks for your interest and support.

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These are the finalists ... there's a good mix of situations here to keep the most jaded script-writer happily chewing the end of his or her pen!

They're not in any order of merit ... just click the number on the Poll that corresponds to your favourite!

Finalist 1
Dad weds son's wife; mum weds daughter's husband; brother weds dad's ex; granny fakes her death and a secret will is found revealing that ...

Finalist 2
Huckster starts wildfire attempting to conceal his incest with his domineering, cross-dressing mother; fire endangers his pregnant, circus-clown lover, his unbeknownst half-sister.

Finalist 3
Husband diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer. Wife diagnosed with lymphoma. Wife's cancer metastasizes, has stem cell transplant. Insurance gets cancelled day before transplant.

Finalist 4
Bishop Shaw breaches the newlywed’s suburban home and kills them. An ex-choir boy Shaw had illegal relations with watches in terror from his hiding place.

Finalist 5
Alternative Beauty Salon and its varied clientele, young, old, straight, gay, transvestite and transe_ual. Staff, regulars and one-offs.

Finalist 6
Fiery car crash claims life of mysterious stranger, but town's patriarch (also undertaker) whisks away the body before police arrive. What is the secret?