In writing a script, as I'm writing a stage-play, can we count our title page and cast page, plus such things as character description pages and lists of props, towards the 100 pages? If so, does it count partial. I really would like to know for planning purposes.

I thought I saw a comment about this somewhere on the site but I forget what it said and I can't find it again.

Please help!

Anything you include in the file will be counted fully; there are no partial scores.

Anything you write in April will count; for NaNoWriMo, you can count glossaries, character sketches, anything written as a part of the challenge (but you can't start until April 1!). I imagine it will be just the same for this one!

If it's a part of your script, then it counts.

Heather
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Thank you. Now that I know this I may hold off on writing out character descriptions, at least more than a few ideas, until April actually starts. I just hope that I can remember everything. And yes, I may just make a two-page prop list, but don't worry, all of those props listed will be used.

I'm great at managing my time,
I just don't have enough of it.

Thanks DragonChilde!

Just to make it PAINFULLY obvious: my planning pages count toward the 100 pages, but I can't start writing them until April 1st. Right?

What I did last year (with the word count) was to initially count the words from my planning pages until I got up to a sufficiently high number (to encourage me) and then I no longer counted those pages' words...

No, planning pages don't count in the page total.

Only what you'd actually print out and clip together, hand to someone and say, "this is my script!" is what you include.

NaNoWriMo & ScriptFrenzy Staff

I"m glad I checked back in ... though it's getting kinda close to FADE IN (better late than never!)

Am i being dense here? Does the title page count as 1 page (even though it has only a few words on it)? It is clipped to what you "hand in" usually.

What about the character cast? Same deal (at least if you don't have a bazillion characters).

I'm desperate to think I have a few pages now!

:-)

Saipanwriter
http://saipanwriter.blogspot.com

If using Celtx, if you go to the tab 'Script' (in between 'View' and 'Tools') and then 'Format Options' there a little box you can untick to show the title page & cast when viewing your script in the TypeSet.

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Thanks. I found that in the other thread.

and it means I only have the 4 pages I counted already.

(back to looking for more cheap tricks). :-)

Saipanwriter
http://saipanwriter.blogspot.com

This is my first time doing screnzy, so wondering: Would scene sketches and (possibly) character sketches be counted toward the page total? We're talking as much info on one page as possible for these. I'm working on a bunch of children's short plays. Obviously character descriptions and scene descriptions in writing would count, what if the sketches were in place of or simply an addition to?
Thanks!

Blazer DeSola
Exeter, NH

"I'm insane...but don't tell the voices in my head I know!"

Two questions:

I wrote out 24 pages of notes towards planning my script ahead of April.
Whereas I am referring to these, I am not counting them. Is that OK?

Are rewrites considered more pages?