What are people hoping to achieve? It's ok to admit not aiming for the 100 pages that makes one a winner. It could be story completion, it could be a lower number, it could be a crazy number, but I'm wondering if anyone else would feel reasonably satisfied with a "lower grade." (Yes, I'm a teacher. And I've realized not everyone needs an A to "succeed" -- a C is all that's needed to claim success in my class, and for some engineering-type majors, expending any more effort than it takes to get a C would be a waste.)

I admit, one of the best things for me with Nano/Screnzy is the energy and sense of possibility -- I always reach out to apply for some job I wouldn't have otherwise, or make some connection. This year I managed to contact someone about teaching for another college (better paying, more freedom) with my screnzy energy, so that's a major success.

I also wrote one skit to have a beginning, middle, and END! Granted, it's a 5-pager, but still, I could see it playing during Robot Chicken, so that also was satisfying.

Page-count-wise, though I of course would love the 100, hitting 2/3 of it would exceed my feeling of what I could do, given my work obligations (3 colleges) and other things going on. 50 should be doable for me, but over mid-60s, and I'll be extremely pleased with myself.

So Maryland - I know that 100 is a wonderful goal, but this is the first year this has been in April, so it may be a new experience for us juggling our life and scriptwriting in spring. What are you PERSONALLY aiming for? (Any success IS a success. And personally, every damn PAGE is a success in my mind! )

Even though I've reached the 100 page mark, I'm aiming for completion of my long musical and figuring out how to motivate myself.

This is not turning out to be a very good month for writing...
I should have picked some other story to write...I can't turn to this one today without getting shaky...there's too much death in it...
GAH! Life is STUPID! *grumbles*

Sorry...I've been having mini-rants all day...

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Inspired by Poe
Driven by Christ

November is much easier for me to write in, although I don't know whether that has to do with my scheduling or just spring in general. I do know that I'm nowhere near the mode-eclipsing 500K of last Novemeber, or even the 350-page output I wanted for this month.

Granted, though, this IS my first Script Frenzy. And I had no notes, no ideas, just flying by the seat of my pants.

Parenthetically, would flying by the seat of your pants be considered a bum steer? Moving on...

Another 60 pages is possible, which should catapult me over the 300 page point. I'll try this again next year for something a little more awe-inspiring.

I am aiming for story-completion over page count. Normally, I would see this as a bit of a cop-out and I don’t generally like that sort of thing, but after two previous NaNoWriMos and a Script Frenzy, I have determined that it is personally not worth the page count if the story never gets done. None of my NaNo/SF projects so far have managed to get finished and I am aiming for this to be my first year with a completed script. Also, when typing my script on MS Word, I had one page count (about 53). After I transferred it to Celtx in order to get a PDF for validation, I suddenly had 44. So my page count has actually dropped. I am making rather decent progress, though, because I have actually managed to get some of the transitions written! I write the interesting bits with the action or suspense or exposition and then just never get any inspiration for the boring-but-necessary pieces that go in between. But I’ve got at least one finished! Another contributing factor is that a ton of work in real life has come up, and I’m putting a higher priority on achieving a grade necessary for life than a grade in personal projects. >:P

Cool -- I understand -- I felt so happy when I declared one of my scenes just be a "robot chicken style skit" instead of a one-act play, so I got a beginning middle and end. OK, it was only 7 pages, but that felt very cool.

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Maryland Script Frenzy ML
Find me at a write-in and get a sticker!!

So you come up short on page count. So what if you actually finished the piece. The same thing happened with me last Nanowrimo. My book was finished at 46k (YA is usually short so it worked). Luckily, I had another idea so I went over the 50k and still won. But I think I was more excited to put "the end" to something than actually getting my first winner's certificate...okay, maybe about the same.

The important thing is you should be proud you finished.

StartWrite

"The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it." - Edward Albee

I had the same problem in November, only I finished my novel at 41,900 words.

I came to appreciate ridiculously long chapter titles, tables of contents, and bonus stories about killer oatmeal. (my MC couldn't cook at all...)

But I was so happy I'd finally finished a novel I'd started!

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Inspired by Poe
Driven by Christ