At some point, most people have walked out of a movie thinking, "I could have written a better script than that" (this is especially true if you just finished hearing 2 hours of wooden dialogue written by George Lucas). If you are one of those people, then the maniacs who created National Novel Writing Month have just the antidote: Script Frenzy 2009.
Starting April 1st, the third annual Script Frenzy will give would-be screenwriters the jump-start they need to make the dream of writing a screenplay a reality. Script Frenzy is based on the same premise as the decade-old National Novel Writing Month: write a rough draft of a script in 30 days. With just under a week before the writing starts, over 7,300 writers have signed up for this epic journey at the event's website, www.scriptfrenzy.org.
The 5 Basic Rules have remained the same as the first two competitions:
1. To be crowned an official Script Frenzy winner, you must write a script of at least 100 pages and verify this total on ScriptFrenzy.org.
2. You may write individually or in teams of two. Writer teams will have a 100-page total goal for their single co-written script.
3. Script writing may begin no earlier than 12:00:01 AM on April 1 and must cease no later than 11:59:59 PM on April 30, local time.
4. You may write screenplays, stage plays, TV shows, short films, comic book scripts, adaptations of novels, or any other type of script your wish.
5. You must, at some point, have ridiculous amounts of fun.
While it sounds easy, the apparent simplicity is exactly what could trip up a number of participants, especially those who have completed National Novel Writing Month one or more times. The word-count requirement for NaNoWriMo is 50,000 words in 30 days, or 1,667 words per day. The 100 pages in 30 days required by Script Frenzy is less than half the normal page count for NaNoWriMo; for Associated Content writers, it's about the same as doing one 3-page article a day.
Starting April 1st, the third annual Script Frenzy will give would-be screenwriters the jump-start they need to make the dream of writing a screenplay a reality. Script Frenzy is based on the same premise as the decade-old National Novel Writing Month: write a rough draft of a script in 30 days. With just under a week before the writing starts, over 7,300 writers have signed up for this epic journey at the event's website, www.scriptfrenzy.org.
The 5 Basic Rules have remained the same as the first two competitions:
1. To be crowned an official Script Frenzy winner, you must write a script of at least 100 pages and verify this total on ScriptFrenzy.org.
2. You may write individually or in teams of two. Writer teams will have a 100-page total goal for their single co-written script.
3. Script writing may begin no earlier than 12:00:01 AM on April 1 and must cease no later than 11:59:59 PM on April 30, local time.
4. You may write screenplays, stage plays, TV shows, short films, comic book scripts, adaptations of novels, or any other type of script your wish.
5. You must, at some point, have ridiculous amounts of fun.
While it sounds easy, the apparent simplicity is exactly what could trip up a number of participants, especially those who have completed National Novel Writing Month one or more times. The word-count requirement for NaNoWriMo is 50,000 words in 30 days, or 1,667 words per day. The 100 pages in 30 days required by Script Frenzy is less than half the normal page count for NaNoWriMo; for Associated Content writers, it's about the same as doing one 3-page article a day.
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