Pep Talk
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We’ve had six months since April to travel about in the land of re-writes. How has it been going?
The revision process for me has been filled with moments of euphoria followed by heartbreak and tears. I’ve settled somewhere in the middle if you average it all together with some sort of writerly happiness barometer.
How are all your revisions coming along? Drop me a line!
~Pablo Picasso
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Dear Script Frenzy Participant,
We are in the home stretch my scriptwriting friends! You have made it through the hardest part of the Frenzy, and the great FADE OUT is around the corner.
If you've crossed into the latitudes beyond Page 70, your journey is nearly at an end. You're likely typing away leisurely from some shipboard hammock, enjoying the light breeze on your laptop.
Like most Frenzies, I'm many, many leagues away from that hammock. I'm four days behind schedule, still trying to right my page count from the storms that have blown me off-course these last few weeks.
lucky rocketship underpants don't help."
~Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes
Dear Script Frenzy Participant,
I can't believe we're already halfway through the Frenzy! What is even more astonishing to me are the people popping up on the Script Frenzy site with over 100 pages. The lesson, especially for those of us stuck below 50 pages, is that you can do the whole enchilada in two weeks.
Just in case that didn’t sink in, let me say it again. People have written 100 pages in 15 days. Though I don’t know each and every participant personally, I can tell you that our rigorous screening process did not reveal a single participant who was also a registered superhero. These folks are just like you and me. We can do this.
he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."
~Andre Gide
The Script Frenzy voyage has commenced! We've raised the anchor, sailed from the harbor, and are now somewhere out on that vast, churning sea of script. Some Frenzies have already achieved staggering page counts. Others–myself included–are off to a slower start.
Happily, at this point, there are 22 full days left. Even if you haven’t written a single word, you could start today and manage to win by writing just four and a half pages per day. And that, my fellow writers, is more than doable. It's done. Thousands of participants every year start late, and end triumphantly.
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Dear Script Frenzy participant,
Tonight—as the second-hand waves goodbye to March and hello to April—a couple wonderful things are going to happen:
In the future–in the very near future–this will be the cozy home of the Script Frenzy 2008 Pep Talks.
What's a Pep Talk? I'm glad you asked! Pep talks are friendly emails from me to you during the month of April. We’ll be going on the 100 page adventure together and I’ll be checking in with you along the way with words of encouragement, coffee requests if you live in the San Francisco area, and general scriptwriting musings.
