Municipal Liaisons (MLs) are local volunteers who help organize Script Frenzy groups in their hometowns. They set up meet-ups, write-ins, kick-off and wrap parties, and other events during April. If you've attended an ML-run event then you know how awesome our MLs are!
If your region doesn't have an ML, or if you'd like to start a new region, mabye you'd like to become a Municipal Liaison. We'd love to have you.
Being an ML can be serious work, but it's also a lot of fun. What could be more rewarding than the undying love, devotion, and gratitude of your fellow writers? (Besides finishing a script in 30 days, of course.) If you'd like to become an ML for your area, read on... Here’s who we're looking for:
- Over 18 years old. We know our younger crew is full of boundless energy and great ideas; we just don’t want to be the reason you don’t get into college.
- Familiar with the event. MLs should have participated in Script Frenzy at least once, or ML'd for NaNoWriMo, before taking on the added responsibilities of organizing a local chapter.
- Warm, can-do personality. We need MLs to have heaps of people skills. It requires a certain dexterity to convince those notoriously shy writer types to come out to public write-ins and events, and it takes someone who is already comfortable in group situations to help keep everyone encouraged and motivated on their way to their 100 pages.
Here’s what you’ll need to do:
- Commit to the whole 30 days. If you sign up, we need you to show up. And not just for the kick-off party. We need people who aren’t going to fade into the background as soon as the word count gets tough. Your fellow writers are depending on you.
- Coordinate meetings and events. Kick-offs, wrap parties, weekly write-ins.
- Answer every email you get about local activities. We'll create an email alias for you, and place it on the site. You'll get emails from local folks wanting to know about the next write-in, and members of the press wanting to set up an interview. We need you to write back to everyone. If you get any questions you can't answer, the Community Liaison Sarah Mackey is here to help.
- Participate in your regional forum. Regions have special local forums where folks from your area will gather for chats and encouragement. MLs can post events, annnouncements, and answer questions while making sure everyone is playing nice.
- Reach 100 pages. It’s much easier to be a role model to your troops when you're giving it your all as well.
- Whatever else floats your boat. Hound local press for coverage, work with local schools taking part through our Young Writers Program, etc.
Here’s what you’ll get:
- A fantastic experience helping those in your area reach their creative potential. Script Frenzy is designed as a month-long creative epiphany packed with discoveries, disasters, and breakthroughs. The energy is amazing, and the friendships formed in local chapters last a long, long time.
- Terrifying pressure to help you get your own script completed. You can't drop out in Week Two when 20 other people are looking to you for inspiration.
- A few tokens of our esteem. Advance notice of HQ goings-on, and our undying love. Wondering if your area has an ML? A list of our existing Script Frenzy Municipal Liaisons is below! Need to contact an ML? Visit the ML Contact Form.
*Applications for 2011 ML postions are currently closed.
Check back next February. Thanks!
As of March 28, 2011, we have Script Frenzy Municipal Liaisons in...
United States
Alaska
Greater Prince of Wales Island: jitterymoose
California
Los Angeles: composr or artofcheatery
Orange County: TSEdiot
San Diego County: Blissercise
Ridgecrest: catsimmie
San Francisco: Armando and majorsamfan
Modesto: themermaidslair
Colorado
Denver: gary jugert
Fort Collins: Bonnie_Grace and zomby13 and shmoo
Western Region or Grand Junction area: Rodney
Florida
Jacksonville: Drgnwrtr
Tallahassee: fuzzynerds
Georgia
Atlanta: jazzyjinx
Augusta: sandtiger
Savannah: smitsp
Hawaii
Zanni
Illinois
Spring Grove: Missie1300
Quincy: hoxie25
Idaho
Moscow: syaffolee
Indiana
Brown County: ukhupacha woman
Iowa
Des Moines: gonkid
Iowa City: LianaWW
Kansas
Lawrence: mermaid_radio
Kentucky
Bowling Green: piemage
Louisville/Bullitt County: AmyLeigh
Louisiana
New Orleand: Starling_Sinclair
Maine
Saco Bay: EelKat
Michigan:
Ann Arbor/Detroit: Misty Mills
Genesee County Flint: MidWestPrincess
New Jersey
(Northern): hillarydepiano
New Mexico
Albuquerque: Apollo16 and kysis
Santa Fe: ms.quirkygirl
New York
Catskill: hmltwin
Buffalo: Hatching Phoenix
New York City: revbon22 and Bionicfemme
Poughkeepsie: KingofSlack
North Carolina
Asheville: bunbury
Ohio
Cincinnati: myopic
Columbus: emmylee13 and Eliza_French
Oklahoma
Tulsa: teffy
Oregon
Lincoln County: brightshadowsky
Portland: MaeveBran
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia: Elisha Colter and Artf0
Pittsburgh: Outlaw Josey Wales
South Carolina
Tennessee
(East): TNScribe
Nashville: fly
Texas
Corpus Christi: vitamin-a
Dallas Forth Worth: Trelk
Tyler: NotDorothy
Utah
Virginia
(Northern): bookwrm
Richmod: ElaineG
Roanoke: simon_of_the_village
Washington
Lewis County: playknice
Seattle: dmroscoe
Asia
Malaysia: cleffairy
Australia
Adelaide: allmylove and editornia
Darwin: Keladryie
Sydney: honeyelle
Brisbane: Mandy Kohler
New Zealand
Auckland: Radio-Nowhere
Canada
Hamilton: girlwithapearl and chrisk0
New Brunswick: Cass
Quebec: Annalia and BeegleQC
Sudbury: PiscesMuse
Toronto: NataliaLW and CatnipKitty
Annapolis Valley: Yack
Saskatchewan: karalianne
Europe
Holland
England
Cambridge: Loriba
Darlington-Tees: hysteresiscure
Derbyshire: Beccalicious
Gloucester & Cheltenham: kaiberie
Hampshire: rosefan42
Liverpool: Tenyo
London: Asphodele
Newcastle & Durham: FaeNixx and ShadowSaine
Nottingham: Kachi and raeble
Germany and Austria
Scotland
Dundee: Aratos and humorous_climax
Edinburgh: Karen_Harding
Switzerland
Wales
Africa
South Africa: AlyssC01