Script Frenzy and the Script Frenzy Young Writers Program cost more than $130,000 to put on in 2011. (Those expenses are detailed at the bottom of this page.) Script Frenzy and Young Writers Program are both grassroots events that wouldn't exist without donations from participants. We're very proud of how much good we do with every donation dollar!

In Script Frenzy, your donation gives aspiring writers…

• Membership to our community-based website, including a writer profile where participants can track their writerly progress, post script excerpts, and exchange FrenzyMail messages with other writers.
• Access to the Script Frenzy forums, where staff, volunteers, and fellow participants answer questions about genre, plot, character, formatting, technology, script revision, and sale.
• The opportunity to join local Script Frenzy writing chapters at write-ins, kick-off parties, and wrap-parties, and receive stickers and other motivational scriptwriting goodies.
• Access to Writer's Resources section, which includes scriptwriting how-tos on structure and formatting for screenplays, stage plays, and TV scripts.
• Weekly pep talks and other encouragement from staff, professional writers, and Municipal Liaisons.
• Winner certificates and winner icons for those who go the 100-page distance.
• Post-event advice on revision, contests, and other ways to take the next step.

The same donation gives teachers and educators who are leading Script Frenzy Young Writers Program classrooms…

• Incentive kits for their students that include event posters for their classrooms, and progress charts, buttons, stickers, and fun temporary tattoos for their young writers.
• Teacher-only lesson plans that expand upon concepts taught to students in the Scriptwriting Boot Camps.
• Access to teacher-only forums where educators can exchange encouragement, advice, and lesson plans before, during, and after each event.
• Advice on how to successfully host a month-long, deadline-driven writing event in a classroom from beginning to end. The advice has been collected from experienced teachers who have facilitated our events in their classrooms over the past four years.
• The opportunity to participate in our YWP AlphaSmart Loaner Program. For each event, we lend up to 25 AlphaSmart Neos to participating classrooms in need of word processors. This is done completely free of charge; OLL even covers shipping.

Finally, your donation gives participants in our Script Frenzy Young Writers Program…

• Free membership to our community-based website for young writers and educators at http://ywp.scriptfrenzy.org.
• Access to site forums that enable students to communicate with other young writers worldwide.
• Ways to communicate with other young writers around the world using FrenzyMail.
• Pep talks from staff and established writers for film and stage that inspire our young participants to create.
• Downloadable flyers to post at schools, libraries, and community centers.
• Writing incentives such as downloadable participant icons and—at the end of each challenge—downloadable winner icons and printable certificates for participants and winners.
• Script Frenzy’s YWP website offers students free scriptwriting “How-Tos” and a month-long Scriptwriting Boot Camp with accompanying Young Scriptwriter Workbooks that teach all elements of scriptwriting and script formatting for screenplays, stage plays, TV scripts, and comic book scripts. We offer three different workbooks—one for elementary school students, one for middle school students, and one for high school students.
• Post-event advice for young authors on topics including revision overviews, youth writing contests, creative writing centers, and other online creative writing events.