Script Frenzy! update:

(Yes, as far as I can tell, the exclamation point is part of the name, just like it is in the American game show "Jeopardy!")

I woke up this morning, and realized that none of options I gave in my last poll on the subject were right. Four of the five options would have each required me to do yet another retelling of a story I've told before, which goes against the whole "fly by the seat of your pants, and see where you land!" spirit of the endeavor, and one (the futuristic, being-chased-by-baddies thriller) was so outside my comfort genre that writing that up as a screenplay would have meant doing two completely new things for me at once, which is a bit much for a first attempt.

So I've decided to follow the old saw and "write what I know best," not in terms of factual stuff I know, but genre. And that's wondertales (fairy tales). I'm going to take motifs and plot fragments from a few different stories, and flip them 'round backwards, and shuffle 'em together in different orders, and see what happens.

There might be a formal "pitch" for your critique (and please, give feedback! I love feedback on new ideas, particularly if I'm saying something strange and confusing) sometime later today or tomorrow...

Oh, and, indefatigable42! Linking back to our conversation a couple of days ago about how there are so few fairy tales where the girls get to be heroes, and do all the interesting stuff: do you know the British (& Appalachian) story of Molly Whuppie? That's another traditional story, along with The Two Brothers, that Hollywood movie makers could have a field day with, if they wanted to...