April first and it's started! I'm on track which is a good thing.

How are you doing so far??

I'm alive, and my play is absolutely insane already.

I'd say all is well.

:)

It's okay... I am confusing myself on the names.

Kimby - is there some way you can call them Superhero, Normal and Flaky (or whatever) until the end and then just do a find and replace with their real names? It make your life a lot easier.

I have my MC named the same thing as her great great granddaughter and I call one Toby (Winema) and one Little Winema since the original Winema is not the name the MC was born with but bestowed upon her later.

Diann

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ML in Temecula, CA

Write your first draft with your heart. Re-write with your head. ~ Sean Connery in Finding Forrester

Kim, I don't know if you have ever seen the film Memento, but I'd suggest looking at the script for some ideas of how to keep your story lines together. That film deals with multiple lines of the same story with the same character. It's kind of hard to explain without going into detail, but it's so worth watching that I don't want to ruin it for anyone that hasn't seen it yet by saying too much. But, basically, the writer color-coded the sequences. I'm pretty sure he also wrote one complete line of the story, then went back and wrote the other. That way he could keep everything straight, then went back and shuffled them into the order he wanted for the final masterpiece.

Just a suggestion, take it for what it's worth.

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"This must be what going mad feels like."--Dr. Simon Tam, Firefly

Thanks guys! I am writing it right now where each scene leading has a number to it. 1 is celeb world, 2 is pregs world, and 3 is superhero world and then an additional number so if celeb Katherine is in Superhero world it's 31...lots of notecards.

I find it fascinating that each ScriptFrenzy of NaNo has its own issues we must work through... things we never see coming until the clock starts ticking. Maybe we could call it Chris Baty's Law?

Diann

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ML in Temecula, CA

Write your first draft with your heart. Re-write with your head. ~ Sean Connery in Finding Forrester

So true, Diann. Like me thinking up an entirely different storyline the night before and having a hard time deciding which one to go with? And I decided to stick with my original plan, but now I'm having a hard time getting motivated...

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"This must be what going mad feels like."--Dr. Simon Tam, Firefly

I think the problem with S.F. compared to Nano is you're thinking "100 pages! That's nothing! That's 3.33 pages a day! I could do that!" And then you realize, you can't sit and describe a characters emotional state for 2 paragraphs or how the color of blue is like an ocean for a page. So it becomes hard.

Yes, it's a lot trickier to pad a screenplay than a novel. Although, in a pinch, your character could get bored and start reading out the names from a phone book. That could be good for a page or two.

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"This must be what going mad feels like."--Dr. Simon Tam, Firefly

I kinda copped out and am using a narrator Grandma telling my story to her granddaughter at bedtime ala Princess Bride.... I suppose it's cheating but I don't care.

Diann

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ML in Temecula, CA