Are you finding this incredibly easy? 100 pages seems like absolutely nothing. Granted, I only have 10, but I did 9 pages today. And procrastinated a LOT! Not only do I only have 90% left to do (On day two, that's not bad at all), but I feel incredibly fast. And then I go into microsoft word and I see it's only 2000 words. Or 13 pages in THEIR formatting.
This is so confusing. It's so comforting to be in a world where everything is measured by words. And then you do something like this and your numbers soar but your actual productivity drops.
I don't know. Is anyone else's brain frazzled???

PS - On the good side, I can get back to noveling WAY sooner than I expected.

My brain is definitely frazzled! I keep trying to add quotation marks and "he said" with all my dialogue! I do find it going very quickly, though. I've already broken 50 pages with lots more plot left!

I'm looking forward to getting back to noveling, as much as I'm enjoying this excursion in playwriting. I've set a deadline for myself on a book project, and Screnzy is reminding me just how achievable my deadline is!

Happy scribbling!

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ScriptFrenzy 2008: Do You Remember?

Yeah. Right now, I'm finally transferring to a meant-for-plays program, but God, playwriting is so much easier. It just comes more naturally to me. Well, novelling is plenty natural, but playwriting seems more like chronicling the flow of inspiration as it comes.

I'm not quite 10% done as well, and most of that I did on the first, after deciding to Screnzy late in the evening. Amazing.

Senioritis -- Four men in a coffeeshop. They write a novel.
Echo Flux -- Peasant girl saves the world with SCIENCE!
(That was NaNo 07. Screnzy?)
Ballroom Blitz -- The kind of highly-meta play that gets written by a student in Tech Theatre.

Same boat... this past November was my first time Nano-ing, and I'm still working on my Nanovel (76k and counting!). I'm kind of depressed about not having finished it, but I had promised myself I would do Screnzy. It's really refreshing, somehow, to feel like I'm getting somewhere. I'm also wondering (strongly) if screen-writing isn't where I'm meant to be. I'm definitely in the generation that tends to see everything as a movie inside my head. In any case, yea for progress!

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As long as we draw breath, there'll be some things worse than death.

Actually I find this really really awkward and just not fun. I love novelling, it comes very naturally to me but play writing it turns out is just not for me :(

"I'd rather stand on my feet fighting for what I believe in than live on my knees praying for things to get better."-Dr. Seuss

Yes! This is tons easier! It basically just flows out of my fingertips and onto the page. Noveling is still my favorite, but this is just easier.

I still find myself wanting to put 'saids' and descriptive language in, but I am refraining. It's just a new experience! :]

I've done three nanos but never a script.

This is freaking easy! I'm adapting my nano novel, and I'm already on page 30 after two days. I'll be done within 10 days easy. I created an outline before April with page limits to keep me on pace for finishing the story. The hardest part is to not run too long, and I have cut five pages already (something you'd never do in NaNo!)

I did a lot of studying on how to write a script before I started. I guess it is paying off! I'm loving it!

Deanna
www.deannaroy.com

I'm actually finding Screnzy to be somewhat difficult.

I've read a few scripts before, and never written one to date. I keep finding myself wanting to add details about place, setting, character actions, expressions and so forth and I can't because, well, it's a script.

I'm finding it moderately easy to pace myself, but writing a script is not that easy for me.

It's easier for me to make page count, but it's harder to write because I know the general direction I want to go in and nothing else. In NaNo you can add random tangents to get more words...and I'm finding that harder to do in a screenplay.

Plus, I have this sinking feeling that I'm putting in too much detailed description. I'm just trying to write it like I see it in my head!

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Nano2007- Within and Without- WINNER!
Frenzy2008- Ridiculously Fanciful and Completely Untrue

Granted, I only have five pages, but my goodness they went fast. I did NANO this year and most mornings it was pretty damn painful to face that blank page. This time, it is so much easier. For some reason writing in Celtx the page doesn't seem blank...it's like I mentally see the formatting or something and that helps. Anyway, it seems to be going much, much better than novel writing.

I'm a two-time consecutive come-from-behind NaNoWriMo winner, and I find writing scripts (movie or comics) to be MUCH easier. That's because I don't have to translate my pictures into prose, however punchy or flowery or lame. All I need is to describe the pictures in my head, which in the case of my comics I will draw. There's times when I absolutely hate writing prose. Writing a script, especially a comics script, is a relief. Neither of my NaNoWriMo novels are finished yet, even after all this time and rewriting and editing...

This is the first time I'll be writing a complete script. I tried adapting my '06 NaNo novel, but it self-destructed and revealed itself to be two stories in one; I stopped at 2,500 words and two good sequences.

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Script Frenzy 2008: Spanner
Project Blog: Spanner's World