I'm planning on writing out my stage script by hand this year for various reasons. If I'm using a college-ruled notebook and have fairly small handwriting, what should I consider a page? The front only or the front and back? Skipping lines or "single spaced"?

Or should I just consider it a matter of opinion and leave it at that?

I would be more worried about how you're going to scan your finished script into the computer for the counting software to deal with.

But depending on how small your handwriting is, perhaps just 1.5-2 pages = 1 page.

If you wanted to get really technical about it, you could type 1 page, then write it, and calculate the difference in space taken up.

You won't need to scan it in, you can instead make a mock document up that's full of gibberish that's equal to what you've written (or thereabouts.)

We're on the honour system here, and we're not going to make it harder for those who are already making it harder for themselves by writing it out by hand ;) Kudos to you!

I was wondering about that, too. I always write in long hand and type it up later; so I was worried about having the pages but not gettig them typed up by the end.

I am still going to try to type it up (my arist would never be able to read my hand writing anyway lol) but at the very end I think I will just estimate if I have untyped pages. I think 1.5-2 pages sounds fair. :D

Good luck!

I think I have it figured out now. I'm going to count 1.5 pages written as one typed page, meaning I have to write 150 total. Thanks for the help! :)

I wrote around half of my NaNoWriMo novel by hand because I was cut off from the computer. Here's what you want to do:

1. Use the 20,000 word mark, rather than 100 pages.
2. Manually count how many words you have on 5 to 10 pages.
3. Take the average.
4. Figure out how many pages it will take you to reach 20,000 words based on your average.
5. Find a Lorem Ipsum generator online enter your approximate final word count.
6. Copy and paste the generated text into the word count verification box on ScriptFrenzy.

Note, don't switch from print to cursive or vice versa. It will throw off your numbers.

The only problem with that technique, IsBreaLiomCaife, is that the Script Frenzy validator no longer counts words. It validates a 100 page PDF file.

oh good! i was worried about this too! im glad im not the only one! :)

I'm glad for this change. My graphic novel will not have the word count that a script would have so that allows me to still do a graphic novel.

jade

Whew! I'm not alone! Frenzy is almost over, I'm way behind, and I'm doing it by hand. My partner backed out on me about a week ago, so I haven't been too excited to get up to it. But now that I know there's a way to do it, I am so hyped now. Okay, that's awesome. Good luck to you other hand-writers as well!