Introduce Yourself : Happy New Year! by Maurice Vaughan

Hi Maurice Vaughan - you forgot also "a great human!" :)

Thanks, Sebastian Tudores. You too. And I'm Batman.

Hi Maurice, happy new years, hopefully win a contest and get some writing done

Hi, Billy Kwack. Happy New Years! Hope you reach your goals in 2026! Stage 32 is the Global Screenwriting Contest Hub. www.stage32.com/scriptservices/contests

Cool Maurice, still checking out the lounge

I just thought of a hilarious script idea from "And I'm Batman," Sebastian Tudores.

Great, Billy Kwack. Keep networking on here. It could help your career (script requests, writing jobs, and more).

Hi Maurice, I like how it's endless

I do too, Billy Kwack. Members might miss your introduction post in the Introduce Yourself Lounge, and new people who join Stage 32 might not see your post, so I suggest reintroducing yourself again and again.

Nice to meet you Maurice!

Hi Maurice, okay

Nice to meet you too, Ruslan Khomiv! How are you doing?

Do you write short scripts, Billy Kwack? I'm not sure if I've asked you that before.

Hey Maurice, I just started, a couple of months ago and I wrote a low budget screenplay

2025 wins:

1, a finished sci-fi action script (recently reworked).

2, a shopping agreement that led to a rewrite and a serious script improvement.

2026 goals:

1, that shopped and reworked script... get it out there!

2, one new script

3, one redrafted and/or reworked script.

Cheers and Best in the New Year! Keep creating, S32ers!

Cool, Billy Kwack. You can also use short scripts as writing samples.

Hey, Michael Dzurak. Congratulations on your wins this year! Hope you reach those goals in 2026!

Happy New Year, Maurice! I'd say my biggest win this year has to be taking a break and rediscovering my voice when writing. Writing became easier for me ever since then. My hope for 2026 is to make another short film! I miss filming and editing. I'd love to know your win this year and your goal for 2026 is.

Happy New Year, Devany Pamiza! Congratulations on taking a break and rediscovering your voice when writing! I need to get better at taking breaks. Hope you reach your goal! I'm looking forward to watching your short film!

I've had a lot of wins this year. I wrote scripts, ghostwriting jobs, made connections, pitch deck jobs, and more. My main goal for 2026 is sell 1-3 feature scripts.

Happy new year everyone! I think the main win is being more active on this platform, winning the first week of NWC and the lightbulb moments I've had where I've felt like I can actually do this/getting out of my overthinking mind a little. So many of those clicks have come about because of something I've read here so thank you to all the incredible people on this platform.

Hi, Marie Hatten. Happy New Year! Congratulations on your wins! You can do this. I hope you have an incredible new year and more wins!

2025 - Learned so much this year, some of which on Stage 32

- Four TV Pilots written, Series designed and pitched. Happy, even though the 30-minute comedy series was resoundingly rejected, three others are still in there, with producers

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- Two movies written and pitching, one of which is, in my opinion, incredible, both still with producers. The incredible one is my first ever Romantic Comedy.

- Have three other projects in planning for 2026.

HAPPY NEW YEAR - NEVER GIVE UP.

You had an incredible year, David Taylor! Congratulations! Hope you sell your TV series and screenplays! Happy New Year! Exactly. Never give up!

Happy New Year, Maurice! My goals for 2026 are to write some new songs, write new comedy material, rewrite some comedy material I already have and I'm going to make it a goal this summer to do my own comedy show. I feel like it's a lot to expect of myself and I'm even asking myself, can I do all of this?

2025 - I wrote a short film screenplay without AI assistance and it took three months (April 1st-July 25th) and realized the play was too long to be called a short film screenplay.

Since October 2025, I joined Stage 32 and decided to wrote screenplays with AI assistance and finished screenplays within two or three days since the success of AI assistance.

By November 2025, I wrote 11 screenplays. 7 TV Pilots, and 4 Short Films. Three weeks ago, I wrote a Christmas short film screenplay that is meant to be a TV film. But within the last two weeks, I aborted the "Zoo Girls P.I." concept but not giving it up though. I let the AI to create visual design bibles in order to make my animation description complete.

Two animation bibles: One is called Mobia Studios where the design and world-building is fully bipedal anthropomorphic animal animations that is a human skeletal structural version of Sonic the Hedgehog (Video Game/IDW Comic Book adaptation) and human heights and helps out kid-friendly or family-friendly concepts like "City Knights", "Starbright", "Typhoon", and "The S-Guards", adult animation concepts like "Compass & Rose Agency", "The Randall Job", Unlike most adult animations where is satirical, dark humor, cynicism, and gory violence. My animation will have none of those factors and made the tone brighter and positive. And even further expansions like feature-length film movies that are solely focused on family like "Ben & Laura" and "The Terrific Trio" they're both superhero movies and short films like "The Inner Beauty", "My Superhero Girlfriend", and "The Glow Up."

The other is a called Mobia Echo where the design and world-building of animal-shifting animation (Like a male is 6'1" human, he is a 6'1" anthropomorphic dog like a German shepherd) are called "Echoes". That kind of animation would help "Zoo Girls P.I." nourish and other shows like "The K-9 Dummies" and "The Divorcees". These kind of TV concepts are all adult animations but like I said, brighter tones and heartfelt positively. Also, a feature-length film on the animation should be family-friendly slice of life or Fantasy or even Science Fiction.

By 2026, with my plan making a one concept come to life, I should be able find the matter of reaching out outside of Stage 32, if I'm lucky though. Anyway, Happy New Year!

Got it done...get it done... :)

Jack Binder Thanks, Coach! ;)

One win from 2025: committing to developing an original fantasy film project (Rangbaran Ko‘z / The Multicolored Eye).

Goal for 2026: deepen the story world and connect with creatives who value meaningful, visual storytelling.

Happy New Year, and nice to meet you.

For me, 2025 is the year of ideas and hope; 2026 will be the year of writing screenplays and bringing films to life.

Happy New Year, Haley Mary! You can do it! I’m rooting for you to reach your goals! I’m looking forward to hearing your new songs and watching your Comedy material and show!

You got a lot done this year, Chase Carmichael! Congratulations! Rooting for you to reach your goals next year! Happy New Year!

Congratulations on committing to developing your Fantasy film project, Farhod Hamroyev! I'm rooting for you to reach your goal in 2026! Keep us posted on your project. Happy New Year!

Happy New Year, Meriem Bouziani! Congratulations on coming up with ideas and hope you reach your goals next year!

Happy New Year, Jack Binder! Congratulations on getting it done this year! Let's get it done in 2026!

Thanks so much Maurice Vaughan you really are a beautiful person. Happy new year, here's to completed and sold scripts!

Wow David Taylor each completed script is incredible alone, have the most amazing new year!

Haley Mary Of course you can!

You're welcome, Marie Hatten. Thanks. I appreciate it. To completed and sold scripts!

Absolutely Maurice Vaughan

I love seeing everyone's wins from the year! This is great! Congratulations to all of you!

HAPPY GREAT NEW YEAR Maurice Vaughan

Happy Great New Year, Mark Films!

Marie Hatten thanks Marie. You too.