Anyone doing ScrpitFrenzy?

So, I'm not planning on doing ScriptFrenzy because I'll be in transit during the month of April as we move back to America from Japan and then as we bee-bop around America as dad gets trained for his new job. Tell us if you're planning on doing ScriptFrenzy or not and why you aren't if you aren't. :)

That sounds like an exciting way to spend the month of April. :)

I'm planning on doing Script Frenzy. I'm trying to write a second draft of the screenplay I wrote during my first Screnzy. I'm hoping that writing it as a screenplay first will help me get the story down on paper so that when I write the novel version I can get more inside the characters' heads without having to worry about figuring out where the plot is supposed to go. Not sure how well that will work, but that's my plan. Most of my stories take place in my characters' thoughts, and I can't do that in a screenplay. I'm hoping that will help me focus.

I have it on my bookmark bar, but haven't decided. I'm joining the "60 in 60" group for 60,000 words in Feb and March (hoping to do about 90,000 for a full novel), so it will probably depend on how that goes by mid-March or so. If I get done before the end of March and can have somewhat of a break to regroup and figure out what I want to do, I'll do it. But if I am writing all the way to March 31... doubtful!

Enjoy your move and your bee-bopping!

Yeah, I'll do it. I may end up adapting something again this year.

I am hoping to do it. Last year's was an epic fail so I would like to redeem myself, but I am so much more an editor when it comes to screenplays as opposed to novels. We shall see.

I'm planning on doing it, but I'm not planning on winning it… This will be my first year and I figure I need some time to get my sealegs before I can really hope to win. :)

My idea is to take the comic strip/graphic novel I started in 1999, rebooted in 2009, and reboot it again in April (much to the annoyance of my fictives).

Since it's a comedic fourth-wall breaking romp, I'm just going to hop right in and see where things lead—right now I'm planning on doing a 'choose your own adventure' type of strip so that it's something that will have a set start and end point.

It's the middle I'm a little worried about… *pokes script ideas*

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I'll be doing it, I believe. Since I am now homeschooling myself, so I have tons of free time. DX I'll be revamping an ancient animal novel I wrote into an animated movie screenplay. I actually hope to animate parts of it too.

I will be doing Script Frenzy. It'll be my second year and I won in 2011 so fingers crossed I can make it a double. I'm in the middle of changing from one idea to the other after realising that the previous one just doesn't really work as a script - I can't picture it on screen like I can with the current idea which is much more straightforward in terms of the plot. I can also mentally picture a couple of the characters already which always helps!

I probably will.

I'm more into novels but I enjoy doing any kind of writing that stretches the mind.

I've already started hanging around the site.

Last year I wasn't sure about doing it then jumped in just before the start. I'll probably do the same thing this year.

I just don't like blank spots on my record....

10
11
13
would just bug me.

(sighs)

I'll be there.

Like I said in another thread, I'm going to try it. I have no experience with scripts whatsoever, so it's all a bit intimidating, but I like a challenge. The hardest part might be coming up with an idea. Plot bunnies attack me left and right when it comes to novels, but their script siblings seems to be a bit shy.

Lack of experience is no problem.

Before my first Frenzy the closest thing I had to do with scripts was having read a play in high school. Back in the 1970s.

I picked up the basics in a very short time, like about a half hour, and had a really good learning curve on the other things I needed to know.

It's not as scary as you might think.

I kind of want to try SF, but it'd be my first time and I've never written anything resembling a script before. It seems so foreign. But maybe I'll try it for the hell of it.

Note my post above.

My learning curve on Frenzy was a day or two, and I won the first time.

All you have to do is learn how to format:
Narration
Dialogue
Setting

That can be learned in a few minutes.
Use CeltX or other software and you don't even have to learn that, just select the option and it formats it for you. I can't tell you what the margins are off the top of my head, but I have written two scripts in the proper format with the touch of a few buttons.

I was amazed at how easy it is.

Even if you don't make the 100 pages, you will have more pages done than if you didn't try it at all.

And you will have an additional writing ability to brag about:
Writer: Novels, scripts, and more

There are plenty of people there who haven't done it before, so you are not alone, and there are experienced writers there to help you along. It's a great event. I have no plans of become a professional scriptwriter, but I keep going back because it's fun.

Hope this helps.

IIIIIIIII aaaaammmmmm! =) so excited, I'm a rebel and doing a novel

I have it on my bookmarks too, and I'm still hemming and hawing over it. I have ZERO stories right now... I can't think of a time when I was absolutely at a loss for stories! There are no characters, no scenes, no images of anything in my mind. I've been deep in an eating disorder relapse, and it has really zapped me of all inspiration and imagination.

Gaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh.... I want to do SF if for no other reason than to get my mind on something other than FOOD!

I'm doing screnzy, despite the fact I'll be in Barcelona for a week. But last April I spent five days in Barcelona and still wrote 200 pages, so I'll be fine! :)
My screenplay will be another prequel in my series. It's Zero's story from the age of seven.

(I don't write on holiday because 1. I don't have a computer and 2. There's other stuff to do!)

I keep saying I will do it but I'm never able to come up with a plot and I haven't written a script since school as I did drama for the six years I was there.

I'm doing it! I've got two plots, thinking of doing both of them. I find writing scripts to be kind of relaxing, easier to write than novels (I don't mean "easy", so much as I can write them more quickly). It's going to be a lot of fun!

I am absolutely doing Script Frenzy again this year!
Last year was my first Screnzy and I really enjoyed writing my first movie script ever. (I did an adaption of my own short story.) This year my plan is to write a second draft of that script I wrote last year (or completely rewrite it, which seems more likely). And most importantly, I am planning to have a lot of fun! ^__^

In an "I'm certainly delusional" moment, I signed up for Screnzy yesterday. With the 60k in 60, I theoretically won't finish until 3/31 and then have to start a new story in a format I haven't used for 20 years the next day. I have a list of ideas, but nothing for sure, and am going to try to amp up my production on the Feb/March challenge to get done by the 23rd. (I'm aiming for 90k or the end of the novel, and just crossed 45k yesterday, so going up to 3k a day will let me finish sooner...) But I am probably really insane to try to do these back to back!