Is anyone considering adapting something they've already written for Script Frenzy?

I'd love to hear what people's various reasons for doing (or not doing) this are.

On the plus side, you know your own work. If you've got a visual writing style, then your work will probably adapt well to a screenplay. And there's the endless fun of choosing actors and actresses to play your characters.

On the down side, it's not new or exciting. And it seems like there will always be more room for story-telling in a medium where you're not working just in sounds and pictures, but in thoughts and feelings, too.

What do you think?

I'm adapting my 2006 NaNoNovel.

To be honest, the biggest reason is because I've never written a screenplay before. There is so much to absorb, in terms of formatting and in the way the story is told, that I figured I'd be ahead of the game if I was already familiar with my plot and characters. (Only time will tell if I'm right.)

Next year I plan on doing an original screenplay.

I am adapting my 2007 Nanowrimo novel.
Mainly because I have no other screenplay in my head, but mainly to see if this would help me pace my story better without procasination.

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I'm only considering doing scriptfrenzy because I wrote a novel about a year ago and thought it was awesome at the time, then thought it was total garbage and nothing good at all, then last night I mentally rediscovered it thanks to a certain thing I did at a rave and I want to re-write it as a surrealist film, because it should have been a surrealist film instead of a sci-fi novel to begin with. I'm picturing lots and lots of late 20s techniques here :D And the story is still fresh despite the fact that I wrote the original one in high school (but it may just seem more appealing because of how I got the inspiration suddenly and it still hasn't left).

I'm adapting my 2007 NaNoNovel. I'm using Script Frenzy as a way of working on my novel, strengthening the action and plot before going back and editing. I've never written a screenplay before so it should be interesting.
Good luck everyone and have fun.

I'm kinda/sorta adapting my NANOWRIMO '07 novel. It's in the same world, with a lot of the same characters, but it follows an entirely different perspective, and it takes place about 3/4ths of the way through NANO just to have a lot of open space to work with.

I'm adapting a short story I wrote and after several attempts at making it a novel, I have decided to make it into a screenplay
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I am adapting my 2005 NaNo novel because I was asked to by an indie director. It's been a great thinking process for editing the novel as well, as reviewing the action arc/emotional arc, want vs need, four-act model has been very revealing as to the weaknesses in my novel, which has been considered by several agents but not signed.

I LOVE David Trottier's book The Screenwriter's Bible. It's been an amazing help for a total newbie like me--very simple and clear and easy to find at Half Priced Books as it's been in print forever.

Deanna

I'm either going to adapt a short series of stories I wrote about bards or a longer series I wrote about a young... god. I'm leaning towards the longer one because it's already more fleshed out than the short one. I'm adapting rather than writing an original work (like I did last year) because I'm working and don't have as much time to plunk out a script as I did last year. (of course this means I have to print out the short stories so I have them for reference while i'm writing in my off-time at work.)
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Oh my... I actually think I can do this. Of course I may go crazy in the process...

Me? I was going to adapt my '07 NaNoWriMo novel for Script Frenzy this year, but I decided to start writing that script now while I'm editing the novel. I have index cards, and I have Celtx. So why not? Anyway, the novel itself is the novelization of a part of my comics project's backstory. So the script is an adaptation of an adaptation. Go figure.

My Script Frenzy project will be that comic. It too is part adaptation, since I'll be writing parts of it (primarily action sequences and the more atmospheric scenes) in movie script form and then translating them to comics. The more conversational scenes I'll write in comics form and then translate into movie script. Apparently I seem to write both novels and comics better when I start with the screenplay...

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Two-Time Consecutive Come-From-Behind NaNoWriMo Winner
2006: Black Science/The Jennifer Theory
2007: Bad Company

SF 2008: Spanner

I hadn't thought about it until someone suggested it to me but I think I'll be adapting the novel I attempted to write for NaNo 2006. I got to 8,000 words but the plot was so epic and there were so many characters (and so very little planning!) that I got myself in a tangle and couldn't concentrate on the prose.

I think it might adapt quite well as miniseries, rather than an epic moviefilm, but we'll see where the planning goes, I think. I'm quite excited about it, the thing was always pretty filmic anyway, and it'd be really nice to go back and hopefully finish it in a new medium.

~ Anna
NaNo '06: no win
Screnzy '07: no win
NaNo '07: WIN!