I remember that the contest results were going to be announced on July 31 of last year.
At that time, I was going to be on vacation in Arizona. My cousin was going to be featured in an art show in downtown Phoenix that Friday. Because the results were going to be announced at the beginning of my trip, I took this as a good sign for both of us.
I quietly scrolled through my emails every hour. The time difference may have thrown me off a little in terms of how late the announcement may have been made.
I perked up when I saw the email in my inbox. All I ever had to go on was one email from Scriptapalooza years ago that my submission had not been selected.
That wasn’t the case this time.
I was informed that I had placed as a finalist!
This was truly amazing to me. While I am competitive and like to win, my main goal for submitting my screenplay for Lock the Doors was just to get feedback on a writing style I wasn’t all too familiar with. For that to lead to placing as a finalist in the first competition I entered was just incredible.
And to share it with family was a great experience as well. Since we were all on vacation, we had been drinking, but this announcement finally got them to acquiesce to the hard stuff in celebration.