Where Your Script Frenzy Donations Go

The 2009 expenses for Script Frenzy and the Young Writers Program totaled over $90,000. For a complete breakdown of those expenses, please peruse our 2009 budget (PDF).

In the Script Frenzy main program, your donation gives aspiring writers…

  • Membership to our community-based website, including a writer profile where participants can track their writerly progress, post script excerpts, and exchange FrenzyMail messages with other writers.
  • Access to the Script Frenzy forums, where staff, volunteers, and fellow participants answer questions about genre, plot, character, formatting, technology, script revision and sale.
  • The opportunity to join local Script Frenzy writing chapters at write-ins, kick-off parties, and wrap-parties, and receive stickers and other motivational scriptwriting goodies.
  • Access to Writer's Resources section, which includes scriptwriting how-tos on structure and formatting for screenplays, stage plays, and TV scripts.
  • Weekly pep talks and other encouragement from staff and Municipal Liaisons.
  • The option to participate in Script Frenzy's AlphaSmart Loaner Program, where technologically challenged participants can receive a word processor free of charge for the month of April. OLL even covers the shipping!
  • Winner certificates and web icons for those who go the 100-page distance.
  • Post-event advice on revision, contests, and other ways to take the next step.

The same donation also gives participants in our Script Frenzy Young Writers Program…

  • Free profile/membership to our community-based websites for young writers and educators at http://ywp.scriptfrenzy.org.
  • Access to site forums that enable students to communicate with other young writers worldwide.
  • Ways to communicate with other young writers around the world using FrenzyMail.
  • Pep talks from staff and established authors that inspire our young participants to write.
  • Downloadable flyers to post at schools, libraries, and community centers.
  • Writing incentives such as downloadable participant icons and—at the end of each challenge—downloadable winner icons and printable certificates for participants and winners.
  • Script Frenzy’s YWP website offers students free scriptwriting “How-Tos” and a month-long Scriptwriting Boot Camp with accompanying Young Scriptwriter Workbooks that teach all elements of scriptwriting and script formatting for screenplays, stage plays, TV scripts, and comic book scripts. We offer three different workbooks—one for elementary school students, one for middle school students, and one for high school students.
  • Post-event advice for young authors with revision overviews and information about youth writing contests, creative writing centers, and other online creative writing events.

Finally, your donation gives teachers and educators who are leading Script Frenzy Young Writers Program classrooms…

  • Access to teacher-only forums where educators can exchange encouragement, advice, and lesson plans before, during, and after each event.
  • Advice on how to successfully host a month-long, deadline-driven writing event in a classroom from beginning to end. The advice has been collected from experienced teachers who have facilitated our events in their classrooms over the past four years.
  • Incentive kits for their students that include event posters for their classrooms, and progress charts, buttons, stickers, and fun temporary tattoos for their young writers.
  • The opportunity to participate in our YWP AlphaSmart Loaner Program. For each event, we lend up to 25 AlphaSmart Neos to participating classrooms in need of word processors. This is done completely free of charge; OLL even covers shipping.
  • Teacher-only lesson plans that expand upon concepts taught to students in the Scriptwriting Boot Camps.

Script Frenzy Young Writers Program