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This Maples guy is going places: http://goo.gl/FZkYbV

Today is Friday, which means it's Chat Day here on TB! No set time at the moment, but let's get some good conversations going!

Let's talk about what music you write to....

Silicon Valley (HBO) - Season 2 starts April 12th!

I'm freaking out. I know this happens all the time, but I am about 1 or 2 months away from finishing a script that has the EXACT SAME CONCEPT as another project that was announced in the trades. I am very proud of this script and feel it is the best thing I have written. But I can already hear the rebuttals, and I don't want to waste my time working on something that seems to be dead out of the gate. What would you guys do?

Just got my first TB coverage back. Very thoughtful and constructive notes!

Hmm, Write2Reel went to a "paid site" status yesterday. ($60.00 a year) How many of you frequent this "little brother" to the Tracking Board? For the most part, TB kicks ass over it in all areas, but lately some gems have popped up via someone scanning in hard to find scripts. I think I'll pass on paying for their weak service. Any thoughts?

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The 2014 Launch Pad Feature Competition Announces TOP 25 SEMIFINALISTS - http://bit.ly/1u3CJOY

The 2014 Young & Hungry List - http://www.tracking-board.com/the-young-and-hungry-list-2014-the-top-100-writers-on-the-verge/

If at first you don't succeed, make another Green Lantern movie, because WHY WOULD YOU TRY AN ORIGINAL CONCEPT INSTEAD?

Sick today. watching Gremlins, Goonies and Monster Squad.

Very excited! Looks like I have a literary agent for my kid lit book!

Sick today. watching Gremlins, Goonies and Monster Squad.

Congrats to my good friend, Mark Lawyer on his new management company. Without Mark, PADRE might still be available.

Excited! My horror-thriller just made it to the top 10 at Austin and top 25 at Page in its category. Hope to see some of you in Austin.

Something fun I found while cleaning at home. Figured this community would appreciate it http://imgur.com/gallery/N90zWCI

Looking for someone to give me feedback for an hour long pilot I wrote with a partner. Don't want to put it in the WIP yet, but need an outside opinion.

Academy Awards or True Detective... Well, that's an easy choice. I'll find out who won the awards on twitter or something.

As great as so much television is these days, and as addictively as I tune in to some of it, I tend not to re-watch it. Yet I do re-watch movies. I'm curious if others have similar tendencies. And thoughts on why that is (or isn't). Assuming this is the case for others, is it something as simple as production value? Or does it go deeper? Does it have to do with the story mechanics? Like, in order to go on this 2 hour journey, movies are super-compressed with idea and emotion, and...

Sent out the rewrite. Tis a better script!

OOOOH! After reading about the addition of Ian McShane (http://www.deadline.com/2014/02/ian-mcshane-patrick-wilson-star-in-the-man-on-carrion-road/), I searched out the script and I AM LOVING IT.

That new Chris Carter show After over on Amazon was reallllllly hard to sit through.

"A group of school janitors decide to risk it all and form a curling team with the hopes of going to the Olympics." Based on absolutely nothing. In the vein of Cool Runnings and The Blind Side.

Just submitted my entry to Launch Pad...