I did it with time to spare, I can't tell you what an adventure this has been. I'm pretty pleased right now. I can honestly stand here and say I worked on Five scripts in this month and it's been truely empowering.

I won't lie I am feeling less excited then I thought. I figured I'd be jumping up and down but mostly right now I feel sort of sad.

Proud as can be of myself doing this among other things like stained glass classes and working and having a chronic illness and no computer to use for this at my apartment and having to resort to public access computers. There were hurdles and yet I managed to do this.

But It was so difficult at some points that I fear the follow up work and after care may be a bit harder then it otherwise would have been.

There were nights where My brains felt like they turned to mush but I'm pleased with the beginings of decent scripts I have and am pleasantly surpised by some of the deep and rich stories that my muses gave to me to work with.

To all of those who tried, wether they succeeded or not, and challenged themselves.

Great job everybody, see you again soon.

Ps. By the way this is not the end of my challenging myself and I hope to keep going with big fun scary challenges and writing marathons for myself over the next year through next years frenzy. Though perhaps next years will be less agressive on myself, or maybe a personal computer will make it easier.

I think you're off your rocker, mate, but heartfelt congratulations :-D

Ian

Congratulations!

I myself didn't specify a word count. I wanted to 1) win 2) finish Spanner book 1. I did the first; I'll finish the second and prepare to start drawing it within the next week. I hoped to get to 500 pages of script, but a blocked NaNoWriMo novel got in my way. Anyway, rovingjack, you're the real hero of the month.

BTW, have you heard of National Novel Writing Year? Pick the number of words you want to write in a year -- anywhere from 50,000 to 3 million or more -- and then write them in a year. This might be the kind of challenge you might want to pick up.

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

No question, I am a complete nutter, but that's a fun way to live. It's better then wallowing in having a chronic illness and being over stressed about a crudy job and daft little landlady.

Run play and get what joy you can while life offers it, cuz thar be some hard days to face too and only if you enjoy the other days like a child at play does it ever seem to be the life worth living.

As for the the nanowri year. Not really ready for that level of commitment just yet. Could I write everyday for a year? Maybe, but For the mean time I have a lot of the Big Fun scary challenges to complete. Namely finishe any unfinished Nanos and Scripts, Submit them to publishers, do an illustrated book that is truely powerful (intense when the idea first came to me, and still gets my heart aching when I think about it). Pinhole photography, with a camera That I will be building myself. Grow some bonsai (they're sprouting as we speak), Hand drawn mazes each night, a line of cards (one a month), relearn mathmatics, learn sumerian, learn a computer programing language, do a community benefitting event, water color again, look into getting my own place by talking to a realtor. and there are a few more. Then there is nano again in nov.

But fear not I have come up with another idea to burden my belabored neurons and show my muses as the most powerful forces in the cosmos.

Ready get this- The average short story submitted to a magazine is between 1000-3000 words. If I write at about 2-4000 words a night. and there are 30-31 days in a given month... Hmm could I write a short story a night for one month. then after editing them submit the and get a certain number published. I'd like to think that done properly I could get enough quality stories out of me that somebody somewhere would publish each. Imagine being able to say that everyday for a month You produced a salable short story. Imagine being able to say in one year you sold 31 stories period let alone a month or two.

I'm with you on the doing things while you can - I've walked across Spain twice (East to West and South to North) and I'm planning to walk across Europe (Istanbul to Finisterre) - so the words 'pot', 'kettle' and 'black' come to mind