Public Post: Reason and Plot
2nd. Mar, 2008 | 58:09 pm
Well, as most of you know, every November I become a slave to writing at least 50,000 words in a novel, all for a site called NaNoWriMo - National Novel Writing Month. Last year they started a different challenge - Script Frenzy where, instead of writing a novel, you write a script ^^
It's fantastic fun. The website is beautiful and the forums are SO AWESOME filled with people ready to answer any question you may have, whether it's about technique or whether it's 'What does a narwhal eat?'
Even if you've never written anything in your life, I still encourage you to give this a go. I look forward to it all year.
I'm a municipal liaison on both Script Frenzy and NaNoWriMo so feel free to ask me any questions you may have at all.
To make it even easier to have a go at Script Frenzy I can point you in the direction of some (free) awesome writing programs which'll make it really simple ^^
This journal will be Friends Only. If you wish to read my script, you'll have to comment here and add me - I won't notice if you've added me otherwise.
It's fantastic fun. The website is beautiful and the forums are SO AWESOME filled with people ready to answer any question you may have, whether it's about technique or whether it's 'What does a narwhal eat?'
Even if you've never written anything in your life, I still encourage you to give this a go. I look forward to it all year.
What is it?
Script Frenzy is an international writing event in which participants attempt the creatively daring feat of writing 100 pages of scripted material in a single month. Spurred by a wild deadline and buoyed by a community of countless other writers, Script Frenzy participants can't be bothered with self-doubt—or editing. They're too busy writing by the seat of their pants, typing out beautiful, flawed stories that no one else could have dreamt up.
As part of a donation-funded nonprofit, Script Frenzy charges no fee to participate; there are also no valuable prizes awarded or "best" scripts singled out. Every writer who completes the goal of 100 pages is victorious and awe-inspiring and will get a Script Frenzy Winner's Certificate and web icon proclaiming this fact. Even those who fall short of the word goal will be applauded for making a heroic attempt. Really, you have nothing to lose—except that nagging feeling that there's a script inside you that may never get out.
The 5 Basic Rules of Script Frenzy
1) To be crowned an official Script Frenzy winner, you must write a script (or multiple scripts) of at least 100 total pages and verify this tally on ScriptFrenzy.org.
2) You may write individually or in teams of two. Writer teams will have a 100-page total goal for their co-written script or scripts.
3) Script writing may begin no earlier than 12:00:01 AM on April 1 and must cease no later than 11:59:59 PM on April 30, local time.
4) You may write screenplays, stage plays, TV shows, short films, comic book scripts, adaptations of novels, or any other type of script your heart desires.
5) You must, at some point, have ridiculous amounts of fun.
I'm a municipal liaison on both Script Frenzy and NaNoWriMo so feel free to ask me any questions you may have at all.
To make it even easier to have a go at Script Frenzy I can point you in the direction of some (free) awesome writing programs which'll make it really simple ^^
This journal will be Friends Only. If you wish to read my script, you'll have to comment here and add me - I won't notice if you've added me otherwise.