I miss Script Frenzy already, as I'm sure many of you do. I did absolutely nothing in my entire hour and a half of math class, and all I wanted was to write more. But not only did I not have my notebook, I didn't know what to write. My play was done and I am not ready to begin the editing process. That's such a forbidding task. But, then again, so was writing a hundred page play in a month. But I managed that.

How are you all dealing with the withdrawal symptoms? Are you still writing? Have you started editing? How many of you have gotten their script published yet? :)

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Screnzy '08: This is NOT a Fairy Tale (Tentative Title) = winner!

I am going through heavy withdrawal. It doesn't help that I've been working heavily with these characters since...I'm not sure. Last April? Around there? I'd already had them for months when I wrote their story for NaNo, and kept going until now. I'm editing, but it doesn't feel the same.

Of course, I have a sequel all planned out, and part of me is saying "You're going through frog prince/script frenzy withdrawal? Write the freaking sequel!" But this is, for some reason, much more daunting than beginning the first one was. Perhaps it's because I can't come up with an opening scene, or a way to explain to "those of you who've just arrived" what happened in the first movie. I'm still putting it off, though.

It's a shame- I'd like to really shoot the movie, and a friend who has a little experience offered to help, but the movie's a bit too 'sword and sorcery' (okay, there's only one bit of sorcery and no sword, but it's a retold fairy tale) and the budget for a) four different castles (but Ockenfels could be cheated into a house, not a castle), b) a scene of a man being turned into a frog, and a scene where he gets turned back, c) a knight in shining armour, d) a few other horse-riding and carriage-riding characters, and e) the medieval costumes really doesn't exist at all. A modern-day non-fantasy film would be doable, but this one isn't.
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Housman: Homosexuals? Who is responsible for this barbarity?
Chamberlain: What's wrong with it?
Housman: It's half Greek and half Latin!

I'm not missing Script Frenzy. Not really. No withdrawal for me, not since I'm doing yet another WriMo to get my stubbornly resistant NaNo novels finished. Even so, Script Frenzy proved so exhilarating once I finally got on a roll (my total page count for the first 1 1/2 weeks was 1 -- the title page) that I haven't stopped writing. Now, I can do that since Spanner is a manga serial that will be going on for perhaps 5 years. Once I get the new scenes for issues 3 and 4 written, I'll go back and edit the whole thing to fit everything into continuity, since I no matter how wild and crazy the action is I still need to make it consistent. But then I'll start writing new issues again. But the more important thing I need to do now is to get my drawing skills up to the level they need to be if I want to make Spanner publishable.

So I don't miss Script Frenzy because it never ended for me. And it probably never will. Hopefully my novels will benefit too.

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Script Frenzy 2008: Spanner -- WINNER!
Project Blog: Spanner's World

I am done with it. Goodbye! I have to say that I barely got to know my characters at all...

Am I the only one that didn't have a very good time?

Well, I must be having some withdrawal symptoms since I back here posting in the forums and it's May 2 (my time). :-)

I am ferociously busy with other things, though, so I'm getting beyond this pretty quickly this year. hahaha! Who am I kidding?

Saipanwriter
http://saipanwriter.blogspot.com
United, we H.A.C.K.

Not really; through Screnzy I found the Save The Cat community.

I thought I knew all about structure; boy was I wrong!

Having said that, through both Screnzy and STC I'm now back to work on a screenplay I've been working on and off for a decade. Having plotted it our properly and laid the foundation in terms of Beats and "The 40" is an enormous help! I'll have to revise the stuff I wrote for Screnzy though!

I jumped right from Script Frenzy into writing a book for NaNoPubYe's MayNoWriMo and I have to say, my mojo for writing is pumping now that I've finished Script Frenzy. It's a great way to get a book written (just coming off of Script Frenzy) and I can keep from having withdrawls like I did last year. Maybe the forums will stay more active this year. I know I'm going to keep on checking the boards.
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Script Frenzy '08: Midnight-Planning
JulNoWriMo '08: The Phantom Keepers 2 (Title TBA)-Planning
NaNoWriMo '08:Wyatt Cane and the Looking Glass-Planning

Ohhh yeah... I'm planning my next few scripts - I just don't know which idea to settle on.

Considering how much I struggled with Screnzy, I'm surprised to find I actually miss it, too.

NaNo 2005: Can't Go Back (won!)
NaNo 2006: In Between (won!)
Script Frenzy 2008: Razor's Edge (won!)

My characters from one of my scripts tried to get me to write a novel about them instead since I had trouble with their scripts. And, so, I had to kill them off in said novel (which I promptly deleted). As sad as it was, it had to be done. They were getting in the way of other, better characters and stories. Seriously, Chloe kept scaring off Melissa (since both MMC's in those novels have the name "Ben" because I kept forgetting I'd used the name already).
Also, now, when I try to write my novel, "Everything Goes", it comes up in my head visually so I'm starting to wonder if I should just make it a screenplay.

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I tried to be perfect, it just wasn't worth it.
I don't know how it got so bad.
It's hard to believe me, it never gets easy.
I guess I knew it all along.

The good, the bad, and the H.A.C.K

I'm going back to the novel I had been writing. And eventually I'll have to finish that Script... lol... I had too much going on this month so I started 2 weeks late and couldn't fit enough writing time in with school. I feel like I can't remember what month it is now though. Last month I KNEW it was April. Now I'm just like... how many more till November?