Which did, or will, you do? Get to a hundred, cross the finish line and collapse in a heap of relief?

Or pick up and finish the piece by the 30th?

I chose 100 pages, because I have some real life stuff to handle and there's no point gilding the lily right now. But I'll finish it... just not this month.

Anyone else?

I've picked up the pace. Spanner book 1 has mutated from a movie on paper into a serial. Now I know I won't be stopping at 100 pages. I won't stop on the 30th, either. I'll stop, though, for NaNoMangO, since I need to put all my focus on drawing at least the first 30 pages of #1.

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

Nobody else? Well, I got past 100 pages, and of course I didn't stop. And I'm still not stopping, because I intend to finish writing Spanner #3 before Script Frenzy ends. Onward!

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

For now I'll settle for 101 pages because it represents the first goal of this project: to win Script Frenzy. Before too long I will finish the first Act (maybe 10-15 more pages of script in reality). Using a one on, one off schedule I'll start and finish Acts II and III before the end of the year so I can start on the art in 2009. Good luck to everyone, whether you finish in April or not. Enjoy the process, folks, and tell your story. That's what it's all about!

--Jenn

SF! '08 Adaptation of NaNo '04: Wedding Tarot
http://www.theweddingtarot.com/blog

At 100 pages I ended up with EXACTLY 4 issues at 28 pages each. So that's a good number for me. It also gives me an idea what the rest of it might look like (and it would have been closer to 4 1/2 issues if not for the massive first issue plot dump I was forced to do... but hey, I'm not the first one....)

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Nano 2007: If Wishes Were Horses (aka IWWH) winnah!
Screnzy 2008: C4 (formerly IWWH, the GN) winnah!

The 58 pages (comics, not script; the latter would be 70) of Spanner #1 turned out to be a nearly perfect "shooting" script ready for the penciller (who is, of course, me). It turned out so perfect that by the time I had sent Shira and Jennifer riding Shira's hoverboard into the proverbial (but not literal) sunset, I had tied up loose plot ends that I never even knew were loose. Once I get it completely drawn etc., and published online on September 9 (Shira's birthday, no less -- her 9th, around which revolves a Bad Company plot point), everybody will be able to see why I'm so enthusiastic about it. It is, in fact, the pilot for the series, and it does its job quite well.

As for what I'm currently calling #2: I'm going to have to break it up, rearrange it, and cut down the size of each issue so that 32 pages will be the maximum size. I want to be able to draw one issue in a month at most, after all. Right now it's getting bigger than #1. That's what I'm going to be editing next month after the Frenzy ends, even as I completely rewrite Bad Company sequel Black Science for MayNoWriMo (at NaNoPubYe). But right now I'm ignoring the increasingly loud voice of the nefarious Inner Editor and shooting for at least 150 pages total this month.

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

My pace is now slowing down. The new scenes aren't coming to me as quickly. The urgency is gone now that I've won and my first issue is perfect (at least until the penciller [a.k.a. moi] gets to it...). That last scene in the current #2 resists completion right now, and I know that once I'm done with it I'm done writing.

I've started shifting into edit mode. I can feel it.

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

My story isn't quite done. I still have some lose ends to wrap up.

I'm excited to start drawing. In some ways, I think that will be harder - to get what I see in my head onto the page.

Maybe the NanoMango thing will be the way to go, to help keep things moving along.

Congratulations!

I'm done now. Not with the series, but with the Script Frenzy first draft. I finished with a bang: 22 pages. That's because that final scene insisted on writing itself and taking me along for the ride.

Now I'd better start drawing, and not let my MayNoWriMo rewrite (of my '06 NaNoWriMo novel) keep me away from the drawing table!

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

Well, poo. I decided to squeeze some things in before midnight. It is now (for me), 12.09am May 1st. And the page validator is gone.

Darn it.

Well, it's all cool. I only did 30 pages. Tear.
I was doing TOO much research for the most of April. Ha...ha...haa...

I did both--finished and passed 100 pages. Though I'm planning some major rewriting. :)

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Myriad

NaNoWriMo 2007: Won with Lobbied
Scriptfrenzy 2008: Won (!!!) with These Dreams (Graphic-Novel Script)