Newsletter Challenge #2
In a previous post, I shared details and images of a deleted scene from the anthology film Nightmare Cinema.
Produced by Mick Garris and featuring the critically acclaimed segment This Way to Egress (directed by David Slade and based on my short story Traumatic Descent), the film had a scene that never made it into the released version.
You can read about that deleted scene in my blog posts Nightmare Cimena’s Lost Spider Scene and The Spider from Egress. But today’s post is about six scenes featured in the June 10 installment of the Minute-Men Newsletter.
The Newsletter
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The Challenge
Either way, this week’s challenge is inspired by writerly advice often erronously attributed to William Faulkner (and Ernest Hemingway, Gustave Faubert, and even Samuel Johnson). But it’s actually from editor Arthur Quiller-Couch, who advised writers to delete scenes that don’t contribute to the work as a whole. In other words, to be a successful writer, you must “kill all your darlings.”
Inspired by Quiller-Couch’s advice, my brother Christopher Connolly and I are offering a signed copy of Minute-Men-Execute & Run (to be shipped after its release on October 14) to the first correspondent to identify at least one of the deleted movie scenes pictured above.
Join the Conversation
Responses may be submitted in the comment box below, in the comment section of the MM: E&R Newsletter, or in a response to any of our related posts on social media.
Results will appear in our next newsletter installment (and on this blog site) on June 24.
We’ll meet you there!
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