ooh I would love to try! I tried NaNoWriMo in November and failed miserably But I'm hesitating... first of all, because of all the homework I have to do and, more importantly, because I have the hardest time writing scripts/plays! And this is weird because I usually have a lot of dialogue in my prose... but the minute someone says, "only dialogue!" I freeze up and can't seem to come up with anything good. But who knows, this could turn into a great experience... I just need to be convinced to try

I've been writing for a long time, but I've only officially participated in NaNo the last 2 years (with that first 'win' coming just last November).

I've not tried Screnzy before, primarily because prose is my style...but that recent Script Frenzy email from the sponsors mentioned adapting your NaNo story into a script. Now there's something I'm tempted to try! (Though this first attempt may go down in flames )

But April means spring is finally coming here, with all its accompanying temptations to be outside before the mosquitoes hatch. So, we'll see.

So... a hundred pages? What exactly qualifies as a page? Technically I can put one word on each page, and have a hundred words, and qualify. How does that work? What does it have to be to be considered a page?

~Riella

I am... considering doing Script Frenzy.

But I have no idea whether it'd be for a graphic novel-type thing or an animated short; and if I'd have enough material for a hundred pages. And naturally, I'd want to carry through and, you know, draw a bunch of it. Someday. Probably not also in April.

I'm going to have to do this this year. I love writing scripts and been doing it for nine years now. I'm so participating this year!

I'm in. I failed NaNo twice , and this is my first year doing SF. I already am planning out what I will write about, character details, etc. I plan to have a poster and a trailer. If anyone is interested in being in my SF trailer, I need four boys/young men ages 12-24, and a girl about the age of twelve.

Riella, you also have to have [about?] 20,000 words...

Lu

P.S. What are your SF user-names? Mine is Wonder Writer. I'd love to be buddies w/ all of the Script Frenziers (like my new word? lol) on NW!

I really, really, really, really want to try Script Frenzy. I've been writing screenplays off and on since I was 14 but haven't done anything recently because of college. I really want to get back into it (and hopefully come up with something that's half-way decent for a change ). But I have two really long school trips in April, and I'll have to do a lot of catchup work as it is to make up for those trips. And there's all the Holy Week services that I'm sure choir will be singing at. And I don't really have a workable plot at the moment. Well, even if I don't attempt it, I'll be cheering everyone else on from the sidelines!

I've been thinking about this, but i don't think i can do it this year. I've scribbled out some scripts, but nothing too fabulous, and we'll be taking a trip trans-state right in the middle of April for the better part of a week.

Maybe next year. Best wishes to everyone who's doing it!

I laugh in the face of NaNoWriMo, but the one year I did Screnzy, it kicked my butt. Seriously, I was not meant to write scripts...dialogue is not my strong suit.

I may go insane and attempt it again another year, but this April is going to be mad busy. How are you all going to manage with Doctor Who AND VdT releasing in the same month!?!?!

^I was planning on working it out so that I could have a day off when VDT comes out!

I would love to do Script Frenzy this year, unfortunately, I will be gone for the last 2 weeks of April. This year it's just not possible for me to do it.

I'll be cheering on everyone that does participate! You can do it!!!

Oh to participate or not to participate? That is the question!

Seriously, if I try I'm just gonna fail miserably because I have HW, AAW, Cotton~Tales, and various other writing projects. I'm definitely doing NaNo I think this year, but why can't these people schedual things a month or two later?! I'm in college people! Finals are in May and December!!!

I might try but I'm not gonna get very far lol.

EDIT

And I schedualed Narnia Read-A-Thon for Mid April....hmmmm maybe I should move it...

Well, you only have to get about 600, 700 words done a day if I did my figures right. Still, that's a lot harder to do in a script than in a novel...

It's a lot less writing than NaNo, believe it or not, even though the format is different. As for the length of a page? I'd say it's roughly the lenght of a Microsoft Word page, but since the formatting is different it's a lot shorter word-wise. The Screnzy site has a Word document formatted all nicely for screenwriting for you, all ready to download! There's also a nifty program called CeltX that they link to (which is free to download, I might add!) which helps a LOT with formatting.

I've learned so much about screenwriting in the past year both from doing it and reading scripts! I found a treasure trove of Doctor Who scripts just by typing in "Read Doctor Who Scripts Online" into my google search.

What about ideas, everyone? What are you thinking to write ABOUT?