Script Frenzy: Just Under the Wire
Monday April 30, 2012 The question is, if I can write 60 pages in a day, why aren't I writing three scripts a week?
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Frenzy Update: There's Still Time! There's Still Time!
Saturday April 28, 2012 Well, after announcing over a month ago that I was: A) Going to participate in Script Frenzy 2012 during the month of April and B) Planning to blog about my progress I figured it was about time I started doing those things. Off to a Very Late Start Eleventh hour, anyone? Although I wrote three and a half pages on the first day of April, I quickly realized I didn't know nearly enough about my characters or my plot to be writing yet. I'm not a meticulous planner, but I do like to start with a rough outline, at least in my head, of both the sequence of events and the arc of each character. On April 1st, I had none of those things. So I continued pondering my script idea, doing research and taking notes, and telling myself that very soon I should get back around to the actual writing. Yesterday, on the 27th of April, I finally went back to creating actual script pages. Now, with two days left in the month, I've written a grand...
Another Year, Another Frenzy
Saturday March 24, 2012 Taking place every April, Script Frenzy is an online event that challenges writers to hunker down and, in just thirty days, hammer out 100 new script pages for any medium - film, television, web series, stage play, radio play, or graphic novel. After first wanting to take part in Script Frenzy in 2004, I finally dove in last year and succeeded in writing 100 new script pages during April 2011 by completing several short stage plays. Now, that's a perfectly valid Script Frenzy "win", but it still didn't feel quite right. I like the idea of using Script Frenzy to write a complete first draft of something which will run at least 100 pages, and finishing that first draft during April, no matter how many more pages it takes. So That's the Plan for This Year I wasn't thinking about Script Frenzy when a new screenplay idea started tumbling around in my brain in late February, but once I started seeing writers on Twitter men...