In last week's post, we talked about monologues for everyone's upcoming haunt auditions and the first ever Writing Competition took place on the Southern Spooks Facebook page where I asked everyone to take their favorite monologue and revise it to show their personal creativity. Many of you sent in your submissions and there were plenty of awesome pieces of work. Sadly, not everyone can win. Out of all the entries, one stood out among the rest. This monologue showed the prime example of taking a script and making it your own. Not only did this individual rewerite almost the entire script, but he also kept the underlying tone and flow of the original scene. When some take on the task of reworking a script, they tend to insert lines or details that either make no sense to the original script's contex or hold no importance to the overall goal of the piece. The winner of last week's contest knew his source material enough to vastly change it, but keep the essence of w...