Just wondering (I'm not) whether there are any diehards out there who have never done Nano before, and are just script-writers.

If so, what draws yout o play-writing as opposed to book-writing? Just easier? or more fun?

I would fall into that camp.

I'm a mainly visual thinker (designer by profession) so screen-writing comes more easily than novel-writing.

As a picture is worth a thousand words, I find I write far too much trying to express the images in my head. Then I have to edit ruthlessly. So it's not the volume of words that puts me off novel-writing, and I will give NaNo a go this year. Promise.

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SF08: Gethsemane - Thriller
SF08: Shooting - Comedy

Good luck to you all.

Me too. I'm an artist of the drawing-kind, and I figure if I want a story out it's more effective to script it and draw it than struggle with finding the right words to put the picture I want in somebody else's head.

So yeah. Not a Nano, never a Nano!

Me too. Not that I haven't tried novels before - but screenwriting is what I'm best at... and novels... ack! Too much description!

*raises hand* I didn't do NaNo.

I like dialogue best, and script writing lets me do tons of that. Apparently my characters don't know when to shut up. Plus, I'm good with drawing as well, so I can make this an actual comic book later.

Besides. 20k words is too easy. I've got 12k right now after 4 days. Where's the fun without a challenge?

I've actually been meaning to do NaNoWriMo for a few years now, but I can never get any good novel ideas, so I never start. I enjoy writing either one - it's all writing to me. :)

"So you would lay me to rest in a sea of trumpets..."

I've never taken part in Nano, but my best friend has. She turned me on to Script Frenzy because I actually aspire to being a professional screenwriter someday.

I'd never do NaNoWriMo. Like others have said, it's just easier to draw the scene then to spend paragraphs or pages describing it.

I plan on drawing my script after it's done. I think it will be easier to share.

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Come, dream magical dreams with me. For our hearts will fly, our spirits be free!

I've written two books. Then I started writing screenplays. I prefer writing screenplays to writing books. NaNo will probably never see me. Ever.

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Scriptfrenzy '07: Darkness Rising (winner!)
Scriptfrenzy '08: Quest for the Soul Stone
ML for Denver, Colorado

My New Year's Resolution this year was actually to do Nano, so I'm just doing Screnzy while I'm waiting for November. ^^

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For he who wants to fight, let him fight, for the time is now.

I've never taken part in National Novel Writing Month, but this might be the year. I'd always assumed that if I got anywhere in writing, it would be as a novelist.

But with the past few years, I started thinking about my strengths and weaknesses as a writer (good with premises, characters and dialogue; don't have a great prose style) and how they might work well with a screenplay. Also, whenever I had an idea I liked, it came with strong visual images.

I had been "writing" a screenplay, in a dilatory fashion, for the past year. When I heard about Script Frenzy, I thought, "Maybe this is the kick in the ass I need." Appears I was right.

I think a movie can be as literate and complex as a novel, intellectually engaging, and have deep characters. That's why I'm writing about genetically-engineered killer penguins.