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[Scelly9]

KISS GOODBYE TO LOVE AND MELT YOUR FINGERS TO THE KEYBOARDS FOLKS

It's Script Frenzy time.

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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 with a partner. Writing 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 and graphic novel scripts, adaptations of novels, or any other type of script your heart desires.
5) You must, at some point, have ridiculous amounts of fun.**

*Bullshit, you can just post your tallies here. I will believe you.
**Fun optional and at certain points of the month, entirely vacant.

100 pages of script. One month. Any genre, so long as it's in script format - television, movie, audio play, radio drama, comic books, plays - if it can be written like a script, it's in, baby. Three and a third pages a day, and then you can pump around your domicile like the king of all reality because you fucking did it, mate.

Time to stop procrastinating. You will not be motivated for 30 days. You will not be inspired for 30 days. If you feel like writing for 3 days out of the 30, you're doing well. But you gotta sit down and write regardless. Just focus on getting words on paper. Don't delete. Don't go backwards. You put one letter after the other and god help me if you hit backspace even to fucking correct your spelling. Write every single damn day and don't you dare cop out by claiming you're a perfectionist or something.

You're just scared.

The deadline is your friend. It is your lover. It is your mother. It is the constant beat by which you now measure your existence. One day. Three and bit pages. One day. Three and a bit pages. Over and over and over again until goddamnit you're doing those three and a bit pages every single day.

This is not about being perfect. This is not about being happy with what you've written. This is not about having a good time. This is about doing something. Bringing down that mountain of bullshit you've built around yourself as an excuse to not write.

SO WHAT IS THIS THREAD?
It's your accountability. If you want in, post. If you want out, hang your head in shame. Keep us all updated with your page counts and hassles. Look to your fellow bay12ers not only as comrades but as competition. This is more than just getting off your butt and doing something. This is a race. Having troubles? Ask away. Just passed a hurdle? Share with us your elation. Make it to the 100 pages? TWENTY THOUSAND HIGH FIVES

HOLY SHIT I'M IN!
Make your intentions known in this thread, and I'll update your progress here. You don't have to tell us what you're writing about (although if you're writing something that no-one is going to read, what's the point?) but just tell us how many pages you're rubbing out.


Scelly9 (12 pages)

I shall be writing an awesome thing about..... something.

Digital Hellhound (0 pages)

Hopefully doing better than nano.

Cthulhu (0 pages)

Something to do with DashGunmetal. Possibly.

Exkirby (21 pages)

Spess Station 13!

AussieGuy (0 pages)

Shall be honing his bad writing.

jc6036 (81 pages)

Writing about his fictional world!

Your Name Here (0 pages FOR NOW)


RESOURCES:

Fellow Posters - hell, ask away. We all have our own little quirks and areas of interest. Have a Russian character that needs to swear? We've got foul-mouthed vodkasicles that'll stop punching bears long enough to help. Got a badass gunslinger and you don't know shit about guns? We've got members who get hard-ons just from thinking the word 'caliber'. Got technical questions or dramatic queries? We're all one sleazy Uncle away from a mass outbreak of Hamlet up in this bitch. The only stupid questions are the ones that are never asked.

Celtx is a free script-writing word processor. Script writing's not like a lot of other writing. There is a right way and a wrong way to write certain types of scripts. Celtx helps with this because it automates all the rules for you, so you don't have to worry about your stream of ideas being interrupted by thinking about whether or not you've indented your scene description enough.

TVTropes is the place to go when you've got an idea and want to see where people far more intelligent and dedicated than you have taken it. Use it to see how far people have pushed a concept before it's all fallen down around them. Wikiwalk around until it all starts falling into place for you.

And so it begins....

_{Post blatantly stolen from the first thread with mild edits.}

[Digital Hellhound]

I remembered this was in October or somethikg, yelp. Count me in, lessee if I do any better than with NaNo.

[AussieGuy]

Looks interesting, I might partake but my writing is pretty bad and I don't get a lot of free time.

[Cthulhu]

I might try, but what would I write?!  Last time I got nine or ten pages of Dash Gunmetal the movie.

[Willfor]

I might try, but what would I write?!  Last time I got nine or ten pages of Dash Gunmetal the movie.

A two hour feature film is 120 pages long in script length. Use your 100 pages to write the rest of the movie. The first 30 pages setup your plot/characters/setting, you spend the next 60 pages alternating victory and defeat to build tension, page 90 is where your hero is at his darkest moment, everything after that is dragging your plot kicking and screaming to its conclusion. Your script is over when your Protagonist has had a conversation with the Relationship character about the theme of the movie, and the Antagonist has been defeated. The closer these two final events happen to each other, the more impact your script will have. This is extremely simplifying the Hollywood formula.

Reference: http://www.writingexcuses.com/2011/10/02/writing-excuses-6-18-hollywood-formula/

[ExKirby]

After much mental deliberation, I have decided that I will be doing this.

SpessStation 12 will live!

[Scelly9]

Less than two days! This is gonna be fun.

[ExKirby]

Hey guys

Script Frenzy is go

[ExKirby]

...Are we all dead?

[Scelly9]

I'm not. I'm just slow.

[ExKirby]

Well I have 11 pages. Am I slow?

[Scelly9]

0.0
No.

[ExKirby]

Well I put one of my scenes on my blog so you can see what I'm doing and how bad it is sans formatting.

[Scelly9]

It makes me laugh.

[jc6036]

I'm in.  I developed a fictional world a few months ago, but never put it into writing.  Now's the time.


Downloading Checking out Celtx now.

Downloaded the main word processor.  It's on.