Put down your pens. Close those laptops. Take off your thinking caps. Put your feet up and breathe a long sigh of relief.
Because you deserve it, each and every one of you. You’ve done yourselves – and Your Big Break – proud.
Submissions have closed, and voting for the Viewers’ Choice has ended. If your entry [...]

ANNOUNCEMENT DATE
The moment of truth approaches. On January 19th, the judges – who include Barrie Osbourne – will convene to select their four picks. Rounding out the final five will be the Viewers’ Choice. Then, on January 22nd, the five finalists will be announced at www.your-big-break.com. For around five hundred of you, that will mean [...]

The five finalists have just been announced on the website …
… and you’re one of them.
Your phone’s ringing, but you can’t find it. You scramble through your stuff, searching … patting your pockets, frantic now … you answer just in time. Your hunch was right: the call is long-distance, from New Zealand. There isn’t much [...]

CHOICE PICKS ROUND-UP
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been singling out a few of my own personal favourite entries, both in my Spotlight posts on particular countries, and on Twitter.
As we head into the final two days of voting, here’s a round-up of all of them – hope you get a chance to check them [...]

STAND BY!
If you’re one of the five finalists, you’re in for an wild ride – so now’s the time to think about how to fasten your seatbelt.
Preparation is the key. After all, you don’t want to see your name among the finalists – then find that a logistical hitch prevents you from travelling to New [...]

Now that we’re in the final days of the submission process, we’re working hard to keep up with the large volume of new entries being submitted.
Rest assured that while it’s taking us some time to get through them all, we’ve got all hands on deck to approve and post your entries as quickly as possible. [...]

So here we are – just over four days to go until entries close! Though Your Big Break isn’t a race, things certainly feel as though they’re speeding up as we head for the finish line. The rate of new entries is accelerating (so bear with us while we approve them – it’s a big [...]

CAPTURING THE THEME
One week. Two days. Twenty-One hours. I’m looking at the countdown timer and that’s what it says right this second. Keeping pace with the countdown is the rate of entries – following our technical hiccup the other day (now resolved) the floodgates have opened and Your Big Break is being inundated with cool [...]

We’re heading into the last two weeks before Your Big Break entries close. Some of you have already submitted your entry (or entries), while others will still be working hard. So, what’s the best strategy – use every second you have, or upload as soon as you can?
As you know, there are two ways to [...]

You may have heard this before: screenwriting isn’t writing; it’s rewriting.
That’s because unlike other forms of creative writing, a screenplay is never finished. You might write a draft, then stop and have people read it, get some notes, even send it out to professional readers (or studios, if you have an agent) – but regardless [...]