It’s that time of the year again. 
National Novel Writing Month’s sister project Script Frenzy is just 24 days away. During this project approximately 20,000 writers all over the world will attempt to write a 100 page script in 30 days.
Impossible?
Definitively not!
I did Script Frenzy last year and not only did I find it great fun, but I also found it a little bit more relaxed than NaNoWriMo. If you convert the 100 pages down to words, you only have to write about 24,000 words – if you write lengthy descriptions like me. Due to a script’s format – you waste quite a lot of space between paragraphs which cuts your word count significantly. Espesually if you have a character that nods a lot.
READER
I don’t understand.
ALYSS
(nods)
READER
What did you say?
ALYSS
(nods again)
You see what I mean?
It’s the one time of the year where you can relax and get out of your box a little. This specifically is very applicable to me because I’m a habit writer. I write the same way – always. Writing in script format challenges me a little bit. Hell, it challenged me a lot in the beginning.
So, if you’ve never heard of Script Frenzy – I’d recommend that you make a detour to this page. It will definitively spice up your April…
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March 8, 2011 at 10:01 pm
mish
Hey Aly ~~ I’m gonna check it out !! Maybe I’ll rise to the challenge …
March 10, 2011 at 3:54 am
Marsha
So Alyssa, is there someplace that shows you the format for writing a script?
March 13, 2011 at 8:38 pm
Alyssa
I’m making up a blog post as we speak.
Watch this space
April 2, 2011 at 12:59 am
Script Frenzy: the madness and the liberation « Creative Depths
[...] My NaNo ML, AlyssC01, tried to convince me last year that it is much more relaxed than NaNo, and a great reason for writers to write, which is reason enough to join (she says). At the time we had that discussion – in the middle of NaNo – I was not open to the idea of subjecting myself to another month of torture again. EVER. So I dismissed it immediately and haven’t thought of it since, until earlier this month when she mentioned Script Frenzy on her blog. [...]