For those of you who don’t know, Script Frenzy is NaNoWriMo’s younger sibling, specifically for scripts. This year its auspicious opening day is April 1st. For those of you who don’t know what NaNoWriMo is…that’s National Novel Writing Month.
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I’m not sure if I’m doing Script Frenzy this year. Hmm.
I have a month to decide, at least!
YAY!!! A thread for SF! At long last!
I could have sworn I saw an actual Script Frenzy thread a little while ago.
Did it get deleted, or am I going crazy?
Anyways, I want to try, but I don’t think I’ll have enough time…
Is it during April?
I’m probably doing it.
Probably.
28 days.
If I do SF, it will be for my Indian in the Cupboard musical. That I never told you about because it’s supposed to remain secret until I finish it. Which will be never.
3- Last year.
6 (Hippo): Hey, Phan was doing an Indian in the Cupboard musical! Are you Phan? *studies name* Hey Hippo! Island off the southeast coast of China! Admirer! Taiwan Hippo Fan! Ha! You’re my sister!
*fails*
Well, Thats odd.
I’ll need to save that for future reference.
8- I guess the only way I figured it out was by her association with Etheterre…
6-I was so afraid of Indian in the Cupboard when I was little. I read way too many books about living toys.
Ooh, I can’t wait. I had an insane amount of fun doing it last year, although reading it over a couple months ago made me want to go crawl into a deep pit and hide. But my script for this time may be titled The Unwilling Misadventures of Vince the Broccoli Stalk; Or Vlascar Goes to Madagascar, and that makes me happy. *laughs crazily*
*reminds self to remind self to sign up on the web site*
12- You don’t have to sign up again. You can use last year’s account if you want.
I’m very excited already.
3- You’re not crazy. But it was script frenzy scripts, while this is script frenzy countdown.
(3, 14) Actually, about 5:30 this afternoon (blog time), Lady B. and I were both moderating, unbeknownst to each other, and both created Script Frenzy threads at the same time. As soon as I’d posted mine (called “Script Frenzy 2008”), I noticed that this one had appeared a few seconds earlier, so I zapped mine.
(See how accommodating we are? Two of us were falling all over ourselves to grant your wish.)
*Claps*
10 – Actually it was
CanixPOSOC who came up with this name. On the Etheterre thread, asking if anyone knew what had happened to me.I don’t think I’ll officially do SF, I’ll just make it a point to write the script for the musical thingy at least a little bit in the month of April.
so how many words does the script have to be?
18- 100 pages. It used to be 20,000 words but they changed it. I’m not entirely sure how one measures pages on a computer. I mean, is it supposed to be double-spaced or single-spaced? Does the amount of pages vary depending on the word processor? How do you measure pages in Celtx?
I’m terribly excited about it. It’s going to be complete madness and I’m going to have so much fun.
18- they changed it to the standard, pages, this year. 100 pages.
15 – Ha! I thought so! Well, thank you.
Alice, Your a great writer! don’t let the fact that you “have no more than ten pages on any story. I had about forty pages on one, but then my computer melted…”
19- It’ confusing, but When I want to check, I use print preview.
22- Ah, don’t worry. I don’t care that I only have ten pages. I just need to get back into the mood. And work on plots. You can be a good writer and suffer horribly if your plots suck. *nods*
I’ve been a bit whiny on the SF forums today. I left eventually.
24- good. You seemed a bit depressed.
Ooh, I just signed up on the website. It looks cool. -goes to explore-
25- When I’m not being cheerful and bouncy, I often seem depressed. I used to get asked a lot if something was wrong. Not so much anymore, although that one kid makes a point of noting that I look “disturbed.”
I’m really excited for this now. -bounces around-
Aargh, more waiting. Why must I have to wait for everything?
28- I know, when I first found about I really couldn’t wait. And then I didn’t even stay up to write the first word. How boring of me.
29 – Missing NaNo wasn’t that big of a deal to me, but now I’m worried that I’m going to take a break from MB and then come back to find that it’s started or something.
-suddenly remembers that Kokon is about a week before the start of SF- Nevermind. I won’t forget.
100 pages instead of 20K? That’s weird!
Well, I’ll probably do it, but I’m not going to aim to win.
Heh, that’s what I said in November, and look what happened there
Things I may Include:
Meadow/Pool/Antelopes (same scene)
HPBs
A group of people in the woods at midnight…wearing long cloaks…Mostly Harmless (MWAHAHAHA!)
Other stuff. This is just notes.
Bonus points to anyone that can slip hot pink bunnies into their story in one way or another.
33- OK.
The 100 page thing is a bit odd, but oh well. As I mentioned elsewhere, I do think I am going to attept it this year…
Depends though. I might be joining ing tech crew. And hockey srping season starts in 3 weeks (ended today ^^).
So. We shall see.
I don’t think I’ll do it. I’m away for two weeks of april, and scripts aren’t really my thing.
35- there standerd.
And yes, alice, and am readding your thread.
I don’t think 100 pages makes sense, because it would differ with everyone – size of margins, font, etc.
how long must the script be?
CatsMeow (on MUSEBLOGERS come here!)
Puplefinch is purplefinch = Ruffled Grouse = Common Loon (5/16/06)
Duh.
38- well, more of the People are doing screenplays then other types. in Screenwriting, You have a margin code you need to follow, and a font (Courier 12).
The Man For Aeiou, Future Screenwriting.
[GAPAs – doesn’t post 40 involve outside contact? (Screennames on Script Frenzy website)]
MUSEBLOGERS DOING SCRIPT FRENZY:
Alice
Cats Meow
Purplefinch
Purple Panda (?)
Taiwan Hippo Fan (Or Phan) (?)
The Man For Aeiou
Jadestone
also Pages make more sense because now the Scripts have a running time of 100 minutes.
TIP OF THE DAY
in a Screenplay, 1 page =1 minute
[42- there the same.]
40 – I know. I feel stupid now.
42 – I wouldn’t think so…
Why is 43 awaiting moderation, while 44 is moderated?
Hello?
Never mind…
PLOT:
the year is 2015. 24 children, born as the millennium was changing from 1999 to 2000, divide into to groups. one of which is trying to destroy the world, the other save it. clues a plenty, ancient history.
~~~
Doe any one have an idea besides me?
Cat’s Meow (46): Yeah, I wasn’t sure, because it does give usernames of people on Script Frenzy and the name of the forum to go to, so I wasn’t sure if that was safe. But, I guess since it passed moderation it’s okay.
-still has absolutely NO idea what to do for a script-
This isn’t a new policy. I wasn’t aware you were talking about a forum. Still, nobody is forcing anyone to go there, so I’ll let the information stay. This doesn’t mean we’ve opened the floodgates, however.
52- Well, you let it through last year.
50- Sounds good.
My only plan is ignore any plan I make in advance.
It’s funny, I’m so used to SF meaning “Science Fiction”… I might do something, I have a few ideas.
50 – Sounds good to me.
53 – Yeah, I’m trying to avoid doing too much planning in advance, because that means I’ll get bored with it even faster.
There was a fantastic idea in the Plot Generator on the website a few days ago:
In a world ruled by children, a kangaroo breeder buys an unreliable time machine.
I think I’m going to use it!
Soooo… my plot idea for the moment:
There’s a guy, I think 16 or 17. Normal, does well in school but doesn’t excel, all that jazz. He gets hit by a car or something ends up i hospital with a bunch of metal in his head. They try to take it all out and fix him and stuff, and he’s awake before they start surgery, but when it’s over he goes into a coma. I’m thinking for about 6 months. In that time, when he doesn’t wake on his own and doesn’t look like he’s going to, his parents agree to let some medicine company people test their drug on him. It works (for a bit), he wakes up, is mad he’s lost so much of his life, goes around doing stuff for a while in the hospital, then BAM! Relapse. For a few years though. So what does the company do? Use more medication of course! Which wakes him up eventually but also kinda screws up part of his brain related to motor skills so he has worse hand-eye coordination. Goodbye sports. And now he has officially missed his school graduation, does not want to go back, but wouldn’t be able to have a good job so is stuck doing tests for the med company. Sadness. More comas and stuff ensue, at least one lasting for a loooong time and his parents want to just let him go and end his suffering, cause he’s depressed and suicidal when he’s awake, but the company won’t let them do that either.
So that’s what I have so far. Not sure how any of it’s going to work. But there will be remembrance scenes and dreams to so I can write in places besides the hospital…
I might do this, but April vacation might interfere…then again, just regular schoolwork might interfere….hmmm
Will I do SF? I can give you a definite maybe.
If I could write four pages a day, I could finish on the day I’d go on vacation.
57- That’s kind of sad. I would hate to be in a coma for any amount of time.
I’m definitely planning on doing Script Frenzy this year. It’s only about 3 pages a day, which is really easy if it’s only a script!
And I’m also going to try to win. The same thing happened with NaNo — I wasn’t aiming to win, but then as soon as I started, I decided that I did want to win.
But SF should be much easier, at least it was last year…
60- Yes… it’s loosely based off the song Octavarium by Dream Theater…
61- First year of Nano I took it easy and didn’t really try to win (well, I tried to write as much as possible, but I wasn’t crying when I didn’t). But this year (actually last year, since it was in November… whatever) I really tried after I got going and realized I could maybe do it.
I think I’ll take it easy with SF though, get a feel for what it’s like.
I don’t really get the different kinds of scripts and stuff…is it like NaNo, except you’re writing a play/movie? Do you have to include stage directions and stuff? I’m a bit puzzled by it all.
I’m doing script frenzy this year. (!)
I’m doing script frenzy.
I need a plot…
THE APOCALYPSE IS NEAR
EBETH HAS A PLOT
PLANNED OUT
ON PAPER
YES, PAPER! SCRIBBLED OUT DETAILS WITH EX-DIAMONDS ON DEAD TREES
PLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT WOOHOO
it’s a bit confuzzling though so i’m going to wait until i write it to try to explain it. read it when i finish! (i actually haven’t finished script frenzy yet, but i will this year!)
Anyone want to write bunny ? from the poster?
67- YES! I CALLED IT! MINE! MINE! MINE! MINE! MINE! MINE! YES! I CALLED IT! MINE!
Ooh… sounds like fun!
MUST GET IDEAS!!!!!
This is going to be easy. I wrote 5 pages today of another script…
I can’twait until Aprilto get started!!!! Can I cheat???? Can I start now???
71- weird. I just found something out.
YOU CAN CONTINUE A OLD SCRIPT!
So, VITEOTM, yes, but you still need 100 pages in april.
72- I’ll start planning. And maybe writing!!!! Thanks!
73- DMI.
I like using abrevatitions, like DMI for Don’t mention it.
67 &c. An alien surveying team in a mining ship lands on a barren planet and discovers a ship in the shape of a pie. The skeleton of a strange creature (human) is found in the cockpit, a hole in its chest and an ancient, crumbling magazine clutched in its fingers.
There! I am officially signed up for Script Fenzy!
75- I was thinking more along thelines of: Aliens invade Earth after homeplanet is destroyed. It would be a satire of normal alien/scary movies. Kind of like shawn of the dead.
Oh well. Good night everyone! I’ll see you after the Day of Judgement tomorrow!
77- Shawn of the Dead is hilarious.
Oooh! Idea!
Will is an ordinary boy, who likes to be alone and unnoticed. One day he meets Kirsti, and somehow something happens involving “productive chaos” (incidentally the title of my script), and they’re catapulted through alternate universes and times, attempting all the while to return home. In the end they’ve got to the world of the antagonist, and will confront him, then hopefully find a way home.
79- *claps*
Now I’ve got a protagonist: Her name is Rosanne Lasley (named in honor of Rebecca nad Rosanne!) and she’ a seventeen year old living in Copenhagen. She’s a programming whiz and is a GAPA (i know it’s young) on MB. She is shy and lives with her divorced artist mother.
She has two very different antagonists. The firs is a MBer who is very normal and nice, but finds a wierd site on the internat. “Adorable Planet-less master species looking for planet to inhabit. Must have H2O, (certain levels of) oxygen, Around 0 – 110 degrees farenheit. (Then comes some more stuff about radiation levels, so on). Must have live prey. Please send us an e-mail at slg_krmp_yfmmrvh@PlanetSearch.com.”
Our little hero here sends an invitation to the aliens, who are, yes, Hot Pink Bunnies.
The lead HPB is Avfh. He responds to the invitaion by sending fifty egg shaped ships to the planet filled with HPB’s looking for a better life. They are technological geniuses and quickly conquer. All schools, factories (except those making canned foods) are shut down. Chaos reigns. Fields of grass quickly turn into fields of lettice and carrots.
In the reign of all thi schaos, Rosanne is surprised that the internet is stil up and running, although heavily censured by the HPBs. Rosanne does a little digging and discovers the HPBs’ only weakness.
Oooh…
81- *puts sun glasses on and lifts pen* Darn. Seventeen more DAYS UNTIL THE CONTEST STARTS. SSSSSSSOOOOO LOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGG.
80- Sweet.
Oh crap this is soon. Ahg.
Octavarium
[I. Someone Like Him]
I never wanted to become someone like him so secure
Content to live each day just like the last
I was sure I knew that
This was not for me
And I wanted so much more
Far beyond what I could see
So I swore that I’d
Never be someone like him
So many years have passed
Since I proclaimed
My independence
My mission
My aim
And my vision
So secure
Content to live each day like it’s my last
It’s wonderful to know
That I could be
Something more than what I dreamed
Far beyond what I could see
Still I swear that I’m
Missing out this time
As far as I could tell
There’s nothing more I need
But still I ask myself
Could this be everything
Then all I swore
That I would never be was now
So suddenly
The only thing
I wanted
To become
To be someone just like him
[II. Medicate (Awakening)]
A Doctor sitting next to me
He asks me how I feel
Not sure I understand his questioning
He says I’ve been away a while
But thinks he has cured me
From a state of catatonic sleep
For 30 years
Where have I been
Eyes open
But not getting through to me
Medicate me
Infiltrate me
Side effects appear
As my conscience slips away
Medicate me
Science failing
Conscience fading fast
Can’t you stop what’s happening
A higher dosage he prescribes
But there’s no guarantee
I feel it starting to take over me
I tell him not to be ashamed
There’s no one who’s to blame
A second shot
A brief awakening
I feel the relapse
Can’t break free
Eyes open
But not getting through to me
[III. Full Circle]
Sailing on the seven seize the day tripper diem’s ready
Jack the ripper Owens Wilson Phillips and my supper’s ready
Lucy in the sky with diamond Dave’s not here I come to save the
Day for nightmare cinema show me the way to get back home again
Running forward
Falling back
Spinning round and round
Looking outward
Reaching in
Scream without a sound
Leaning over
Crawling up
Stumbling all around
Losing my place
Only to find I’ve come full circle
Flying off the handle with careful with
That axe Eugene gene the dance machine
Messiah light my fire gabba gabba
Hey hey my my generation’s home again
Running forward
Falling back
Spinning round and round
Looking outward
Reaching in
Scream without a sound
Leaning over
Crawling up
Stumbling all around
Losing my place
Only to find I’ve come full circle
[IV. Intervals]
[First]
Our deadly sins feel his mortal wrath
Remove all obstacles from our path
[Second]
Asking questions
Search for clues
The answer’s been right in front of you
[Third]
Try to break through
Long to connect
Fall on deaf ears and failed muted breath
[Fourth]
Loyalty, trust, faith and desire
Carries love through each darkest fire
[Fifth]
Tortured Insanity
A smothering hell
Try to escape but no avail
[Sixth]
The calls of admirers
Who claim they adore
Drain all your lifeblood while begging for more
[Seventh]
Innocent victims of merciless crimes
Fall prey to some madmen’s impulsive designs
[Octave]
Step after step
We try controlling our fate
When we finally start living it has become too late
Trapped inside this Octavarium
Trapped inside this Octavarium
Trapped inside this Octavarium
Trapped inside this Octavarium
…
[V. Razor’s Edge]
We move in circles
Balanced all the while
On a gleaming razor’s edge
A perfect sphere
Colliding with our fate
This story ends where it began
*relapses into state of total indecision for five days*
*recovers*
There are about nine million things that will prevent me from finishing (including not having a plot and having a history final paper) but I think I am going to do it anyway!
*I meant lapses, if thats even a word.
85-It’s Easy!
87-Thanks! (but I’m still scared)
*goes and hides under bed*
*gets eaten by dustball monster*
*gets digested*
*magically survives*
Actually, my situation is a little more hopeful than before because I have a plot which I will probably expound on at length when I am not suppoused to be doing spring break homework.
Hmm. I don’t know if I’m going to do it, mainly because I don’t have a plot. I may do a Muse Origins movie.
So much has been going on in March that I nearly forgot about this. March has been incredibly busy. Let’s hope April isn’t, or I’ll never get it done.
89- plot needed? go to the site and look at the plot machine.
Isn’t 100 pages more than the 20,000 words of last year?
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! (random exclamation of anger)
There is no way I can finish; I;ve never written a script in my life, I know nothing about formatting, my plot is complicated (and I’m too attached to it to change it), my life is busy, and finally I write at the pace of a snail with a broken leg and no crutches.
Ah well, its not about winning, its about having fun!
92- GET CELTX.
What’s CELTX?
*reads top of thread*
Oh, I see. Its some type of word processor. I have Microsoft word. Or is it for screenplays.
*is overwhelmed*
*digs enormous hole and goes to hide in it*
*gets soil in mouth*
*spits it out and climbs out of hole*
94- Screenplay, Stage plays, any thing you’d write for script frenzy. And it’s free.
I need help naming one of my characters.
He’s 15 years old, practical, doesn’t go out of his way to be nice or sugarcoat the truth, but a decent sort, and I get the feeling he doesn’t come from a high-class family. Not necessarily an orphan, definitely not too poor to live, but he lives in a grimy part of the city, and probably has discreetly mended garments. For a while I was calling him Conall, but there are a few problems with that, mainly that it clashes with his friend’s name. She’s Kirsti, and while I don’t really mean for it to be too Scandinavian, an Irish name is a bit too much. Not to mention they both start with a “k” sound.
96 – Andor
Eilert
Eldon
I dunno. These are just a bit random.
What sort of name are you looking for?
97- I quite like Andor. I think I’ll use one.
Oh Spring Break, why must you be in March! Why?
My spring break ends March 30. Then I go back to school and die because of all the end of year testing and cramming. Holy fruit I just realized how close it is to summer.
I don’t know what to write about. I think I’ll write about a story that I keep playing in my head. I tried to write it but I had to go to bed and then I lost the writing skills. Actually I like the story where it is. Maybe I’ll keep it in my head. The characters don’t have names anyway. I don’t want them to have names.
4 days…
Wow, it *is* only 4 days!
I’m not ready. At all. All I have is the plot I generated from the plot machine:
“In a world ruled by children, a kangaroo breeder buys an unreliable time machine.”
This should be fun!
101- I’m perfectly ready. I guess. But I think I’m going to change my plot at the last minute so that I still have some momentum, because “Productive Chaos” is sort of stalled right now.
I’m not gonna do it this year. Sorry. I’ll just read other peoples’.
103- oh well.
I’m very excited!
105-Me too.
I just signed up officially yesterday and I checked out the site and it looked cool but I am very confused as to where you paste your finished script so it can word count it. Help, someone!
106- There will be instructions near the end of the month.
107-thanks!
Squee! So #@% excited!
Its tomorrow (this isn’t really a double post as there’s about an hour between this and my last post)! I’m waking up really early. Squee.
*is overwhelmed by excitement*
I guess I’m being very neophyt-ical right now, but hey, I haven’t nanoed and frenzied. Its actually my first time doing a major piece of writing out of school. So, squee!
!!!
Were do you live?
Friendly reminder about MuseBlog’s rule on sharing information about your location:
You may tell which state you live in and narrow down the geography slightly further (for example, Northern California; upstate New York; east Texas). But you may not name your city unless you live in a metropolitan with a population of a million or more.
111- I’m looking for a country. It was also Rhetorical. she must live *Thinks* Posted 5 hours to midnight MB time.
Hypatia- Do You live in England?
I still haven’t decided wether I’m going to do it.
Probably not. I don’t know how to write a script.
Well, I do, but I prefer novels.
OHCRAP. I need names for my characters. Shootshootshootshootshoot. I forgot about that little detail.
Um… no time to search…
I’m just going to steal random MBer’s names and descriptions for my characters. Easier, and I’ll have an idea of what the characters are like. Does anyone mind?
I’m thinking I can use Alice, Grant, if other people can give names to me I’ll use you too, or even fake names (but realistic) and I’ll just steal you’re personalities
114- Call a major male character Jasper E.
I still don’t know what the heck I’m doing. Not only do I not have character names, I do not have characters, and I do not have a plot. Nor do I have any ideas about what my plot could be.
Maybe I just won’t do it…
Then again, I’m rather…byurnt* right now. So I shouldn’t make any important decisions while I’m in this mood. -sighhh-
*No adjectives could describe my current mood, so I made one up
114- Hey, sweet. I get to be in another script! Promise me I can read this one. The whole thing.
Yay, it started!
Yup, yup. It’s begun. And Scripped.com is down till 8:30…
119 – Yes, they picked a very bad day to be offline.
Don’t they know that SF is starting today?
WoCo: Over 1k. Parties (even though word count isn’t relevant)
PaCo: about 3 and a half.
Squee!
I’ve just been doing it freehand on Microsoft word and I know my formatting is messed up but I don’t care. Squededelee!
Yes. I need to type what I have into Scripped. *goes off to do so*
SCRIPPED IS DOWN FOR MAINTENANCE. *dies elaborately*
I’ll have to write it in Appleworks and transfer it. *grumpy*
121 – So far I’ve just been copying kiwimuncher’s formatting from last year. Which probably means that I’m going to actually imput it into Scripped, only to find out that I only have about 3 pages because I formatted it all wrong.
123 – Yes, it’s being immensely annoying. I’m just writing it in Word right now, but means my formatting is likely wrong.
Word Count: 1,506
Page Count: 6 1/4
Squee!
124-I’ve been copying Alice’s. SO Alice, I sincerely hope you did it correctly
One of My characters speaks in rhyme sometimes and this is one of the poems in which he introduces himself.
Though with my wit I bite, /My couplets are quite right, /I am a poet,/ And though you profess to know it,/ You know not well my trade/ I deal in words by the day/ And then in Night its flight./ My mind soars high/ And so I fly./ Up with the birds./ When I sculpt words,/ This is my inspiration.
I don’t love it, but in the spirit of Script Frenzy I will not go back and edit and I needed an excuse to procrastinate so I’m posting it here.
124 – Alice’s is apparently much different then kiwimuncher’s. And kiwimunchers is longer, so I’m somewhat hoping kiwimuncher’s is right.
125- Er… You’ve been copying MINE? Well, I did do it in Celtx, so it should be fine…
OK. Two things. One, dialogue and character names should be centered; two, the scene heading (Int/Ext, etc) should be capitalized.
126- kiwimuncher didn’t do it. I think you mean Mirabelle’s.
127-Oh lord, I haven’t been centering. I think I may have mis-seen, I have a bad habit of doing that. Do you put a space between text and name of speaker or not? Thanks a lot, by the way. I am a little lost.
Woco: 1388
PaCo: 4 1/2
SCRIPPED JUST DIED ON ME. I saved my edits, thank god. I really like Scripped, ’cause it counts pages and everything, but the trouble is, it seems to have Problems. And Difficulties. And Issues. Celtx might be a better choice.
Oh, sorry for the double post, but Hypatia, there are some really useful pages on the official SF site that help with the formatting greatly.
128 – Actually, I meant purplefinch.
127 – I’ve been doing mine like this, which is how purplefinch did hers:
ALICE
(Suspiciously)
Okay, we’ve given you our tickets. May we board the ship now?
SHIP CAPTAIN
(Startled)
Oh, yes, of course! (Shakes head) Go right aboard!
(ALICE, CAT’S MEOW, and IBCF walk past the SHIP CAPTAIN, and off stage to the audience’s right. The SHIP CAPTAIN watches them for a moment)
Yes, my script does involve MuseBloggers. And Muse Academy, for that matter. I am just not sure whether this is the right format or not. That’s all centered, by the way.
WoCo: 1,691
PaCo: 7 and a hair
131-Thanks a lot. By the way, however did you figure out my identity?
132- Don’t put the action in parentheses. Although you appear to be writing a stage play, and I’m sure it’s different there.
133- You’re welcome. And it’s quite easy, if you know who Hypatia is. Plus I’m already figuring out your writing style.
WoCo: Unknown
PaCo: 2 and a bit.
It’s really hard for me because so far I only have one character, so she has to talk to herself constantly. Now I’ve got to go and find another…
*feels honored*
I followed the format at the site, but I don’t know how correctly… I think some parts may be more play-like than screenplay-like…
But I decided to do the same thing again this year, because it will be more fun (Right now, I have about a page… with the [rather large] character list), and I don’t have the patience with the other sites.
133 – As Alice said, I can tell your writing style, and “Mousy-Haired, Female Greek Scholar To Whose Memory I have Just Done Wrong By The Coupling of Her Name With An Untrue Slander (mousy-haired)” posted on all the same threads Hypatia did, so I just guessed.
134 – Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Is Scripped working again now?
134-*feels figured out but happy that she has now been on Museblog long enough to be recognized* Yay, you just made my day. I went to Script Frenzy and I reformatted mine and now it looks professional-ish (looks, mind you).
Ooh, Scripped is working. Now I have to go figure it out. ._.
Haha! I need to make dinner… but I’m writing the HPB scene.
It is taking me forever to reformat mine. I’ll bet that’s all I’ll do for the rest of the day.
WoCo: 1, 487
PaCo: 5 on the dot
I have too much HW to write more today but I think I’ll just wing the format, becuase I don’t really want to give my email to yet another site. I’m web-paranoid. I hung around Museblog for three weeks reading all the ancient threads, trying to make sure I would be totally safe. I just realized how sad that sounds seeing as I’m not even a parent. Wow, total tangent.
According to Scripped my script is currently 10 pages done. And I’m not even done reformatting it. Wow.
141 – I created a new e-mail account about a year ago that I use for stuff like the Frenzy website and Scripped, so that I don’t have to give out my actual one. That way if anyone gets a hold of it somehow it’s no big deal. Maybe you could do that.
142-Brilliance. I think I might just try that.
I am posting one of my poorly formatted and uns-scriptful lines of which I am fond.
RAFAEL
(moves away from the crowds a little and the noise dims) Nobody is all right until they know the poet, until they’ve been stung by his biting verse, and until they’re intimately familiar with his capricious and fickle character. And you my man (slaps the fuming, but very perplexed, Bystander on the back) are no exception. So calm your hurry and lend an ear to my young friend over here. (the bystander desists from trying to resist)
143 – It works well, and, as it turns out, that e-mail still doesn’t get a ton of spam.
144 – Nice.
142- Youy could always download Celtx. That doesn’t have an email-thing.
YES. GET CELTX.
I’m using Scripped, though I haven’t started yet. Hmm.
*skips off to Scripped to begin*
On Scripped, what are “Parenthetical” and “Transition” for?
149- Parenthetical is for the stuff in parentheses. Transition… I’m not sure what that’s for.
149 – I was wondering that myself, I have no idea!
But now I have 2 pages of script written, so I’m stopping for the night.
And you only have to write about 3 pages a day, which is so little! Compared to NaNo, at least!
151- I’m trying to get a head start because I might not have much time in the future. At the same time, I’m trying to do my English project (getting six quotes from Hamlet is harder than you’d think), and cook dinner.
115- Ooh, maybe I can… ^^
117- Actually, if I get far enough I’ll probably let people read it. Unlike my Nano, which has so much of me in it it’d be like letting people pick through my mind. This one’s not based off me really, but a song, so I can let others look.
BUt there is a character named Alice now. Actually she may end up being Grant’s love interest, but only for a bit cause he’s going to go into a coma soon…
149- Transition I believe is like fading to black between scenes, disolving them into each other, ect. Parentheticals go just under a characters name and above their dialouge, with things to describe motions they make or how they speak. So you could have:
GRANT
(fondly)
My best friends are Chris, who I’ve known since second grade when he poured jell-o down my shirt, and Troy, who stopped a bully from beating my up in fifth grade by smashing his trombone on his head. Sometimes you just bond with people, y’know?
Or:
Troy:
(running across stage)
Stop that, d*** you! Put the penguin back into it’s pen, it’s not supposed to come out until after the trumpet’s enter!
…I have the first in my script, but I think I may need to put the second in too.
Anyway, I am just starting page 3!
By the way in Celtx, you can get it to show you where pages break by selecting “script” and then clicking “enable pagination.”
But we really don’t have to write as much each day as we did for Nano. Thank god.
153-Thats quite funny (I mean the penguins and best friends)!
145-Why thank you.
I’m basically resigned to doing my script freehand. Which reminds me, I should probably go write it.
*looks guilty*
153 – It would have been helpful to know that a while ago, since I had a bunch of those in my original script but didn’t know where to put them when I imported it in. Oh well.
My end of day total yesterday was 14 pages.
And that’s still what I have now. I hate my math homework…
155- 14 pages! *faints*
I’m at 6!
WoCo: 1,636
I’m at 11, but hopefully it’ll grow later today.
WoCo:2008 (like the year)
*laughs maniacally*
I just wrote a scene with a drunkard who talks in third person. My writing is deteriorating but its also speeding up.
This isn’t a double post. There’s a good hour between them. Really. Truly.
I’m finishing today with
WoCo: 2,384
PaCo:8 and a line
Not brilliant but not hideous.
Yeah, I’m not doing it.
WoCo: 0
PaCo: 0
IdeaCo: 0
FishCo: 0WoCo:1343
PaCo: 9, going on 10
I’m still at just barely 14 pages. And I just got back from soccer practice, so my hands are numb and I can barely type.
Hey, Alice, would you be mad if I killed you off? You would likely come back to life eventually, but I would stiill like to get at least something resembling permission before I write the death scene.
162- Not at all. But the Rule applies: If I die, it has to be dramatic. Spectacular. (In actual life, I’d like to die quietly. In stories, I want to go out with a bang.)
Eh, I’ll just kill Alice off. She’ll come back to life, anyways. She may not even die, actually, just get severely electrocuted. We’ll see.
163 – Hmmm…what if you never actually die?
Or, better yet, what if you DO die, and then other people have to go on some quest thing to revive you?
Right now you fall over backwards screaming while there’s a strobe light flashing. And for at least a few more scenes you’re going to be a hospital, whether dead or not, and then you’ll get revived, and then everyone will be happy.
Maybe.
164- Ooh, electrocution. That’s got to be painful.
I have to go.
End of Day Page Total: 15 2/3
165- Either way, that sounds good.
Now I’m off to go write. Right now my character-less characters are wandering around looking for some ruby that neither of them knows the first thing about. Maybe Peter will force Sasha to do some research. Or better yet! They get captured by the antagonist of the story, and unwittingly tell him about the stone. He does some research, and the overhear him talking about it. They escape, and go to the newly discovered location, but they have to fight him constantly. Yup. Sounds good.
166 – A blogging accident, actually.
I owe it to the dares for that one…
Alice trying to access MuseBlog + Sir Bunny not wanting Alice to access MuseBlog = Alice getting electrocuted
I lied. I had another hour to work, apparently. So now I’m up to 18 pages…
I’m at sixteen pages. Malacour is trying to interrogate Peter and Sasha, who unfortunately know nothing about their quest…
Six pages. Way behind. Finished my homework at midnight, tyoed for half hour just now. Now must shower and stuff so I can be sleep deprivd for tomorrow.
Sleep is for the weak.
Oh, ok, freehand seems to have some disadvantages. I have a bigger WoCo that TMFA and a smaller PaCo. Maybe I will switch to Celtx.
How odd. I know I wrote a post, did I forget to post it? Or decide not to?
174-How very queer. Maybe the bunnies were hungry. I have to go write a lot of history so I probably won’t write much today. I’ll just download Celtx and reformat. I think that should bolster my page count.
My small cast of characters:
Sasha – Protagonist
Peter – Secondary Protagonist
Malacour – Antagonist
Watson – Other antagonist
Several Hundred HPBs – Other other antagonist(s)
Man 1 – Very small side character
Man 2 – Other very small side character
Cart Driver – Other other very small side character
Each has different motives. Sasha’s is to find the Eye of Gapa, the enormous glow-in-the-dark ruby, Peter’s is to escape the HPBs and his haunting past, Malacour’s is to get the Eye of Gapa, Watson’s is to overthrow Malacour, and the HPBs just want to get in the way.
PaCo: 16
WoCo: 2046
No Script Frenzy for me this year, because I’m entering a playwriting competition!
I still have 2 pages. *sigh*
I’m planning to catch up this weekend, but I might not get around to it. Oh, well…
WOCO: 2567
PACO: A BIT OVER 9
I tried Celtx but I would have had to entirely rewrite my script. Ah well.
My characters so far:
Cat’s Meow
Alice
IBCF
Ship Captain
Random Ship Passengers
Random People on the Shore
Random Diners
Sir Waiter/Sir Bunny
And I’m pretty sure that at least one GAPA and several other bloggers are going to show up in the next scene.
181- ME!
I am answering a call for someone to participate. But I don’t know what to do.
Cats Meow – you said you wanted a character???
Hers my application:
Age – 14 (well in 22 days I’m 14)
Gender – Female
Appearance – Tall (5’10”) Really Skinny, tan skin, green eyes that turn brown when I’m angry and almost blue when I’m super happy, Just longer than shoulder length reddish brown hair
Personality – optimistic, sarcastic, funny, happy , over talkative, get scared when I’m alone in somewhere I dont know. CLUMSY!!
Name – Trebel or Zoe (go with Zoee)
182 – Can you post a profile and stuff? Just basic appearance, age, gender, personality, interests…that sort of stuff.
183 – Again, just post a short little profile.
184 – Thanks!
Meow – I posted a character profile for myself on the random thread.
I am not doing Script Frenzy officially. However, I am using as an excuse to actually write a musical I came up with a long time ago. I so far have about 7 pages.
185 – will I be in youre script now???
187 – Yes. Everyone who posts a profile will at least have a minor part, although I can’t guarentee a major part.
still 6 pages. I should type more. I didn’t write at _all_ today because I had a ton of stuff going on… I don’t know if I’ll catch up…
Zoe, would you mind weilding a spork? I need one character whose weapon of choice is an abnormally large spork, and for some reason I can imagine you with a giant spork.
(190) Sounds like the Blue Rajah, Master of Cutlery!
191 – Huh?
190 – sure – i’ll have a spork. haha can it be platinum???
193 – Yeah, sure, I guess.
You get to call someone a mashed potato.
185- You can find one one the MFF thread!
183) OK!
Does it have to be my real self, or a made up character?
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Appearance: brown hair, glasses, not very flexible at all, likes to wave at things (friends, family, teachers, peers, trees, birds, etc.)
Personality: slightly crazy but also serious at the best of times and creative. Can be easily confused, but is very smart and loves to read. In fact, will read anything and everything. (yes, I’m one of those weirdos that reads their milk carton during lunch) I also like cheese.
Name: *looks over shoulder nervously* I don’t know….. You guys might be stalkers.,…….. Let’s just settle with Ariadne. That’s a pretty name.
Snappers! My second secret identity’s out!
I’ll have to work harder!
195 – What does MFF stand for?
196 – I can just call you Kiwimuncher, if you’d like.
195- Muse Fanfic.
I wrote a bunch in school and sent it to myself but myself did not receive it. D****. Off to write for now. I’ll keep updating for socialness’ sake.
Hypatia
Short brown hair and brown eyes. Medium to tall height.
Interests: Modern dance, piano, ancient history/philosphy, writing
Eccentricites: Never says “Oh My God or OMG” Uses “Oh my genetically modified organism” instead! Replies in rhyme when people offend her (or tries to, I have to say most of them are pretty lame), loves to sing cabaret songs in her friend’s ears despite the fact that all of them (and her chorus teacher) have told her that she “has trouble picking up tunes”, headbuts people frequently
Personality: Excessively hyper, pretty short attention span, liable to crack up in the middle of a serious discussion
WoCo: 3805
PaCo:14
Finally, I am beginning to catch up. Have to go write now. Squee! And this isn’t a triple post. There is a lot of time in between. Honest to Betsy.
Oh, no. *dies*
I just had a new idea. That I love twenty times as much. So now I have a dilemma:
Do I grit my teeth and keep going with Sasha’s tale, growing less and less fond of the characters as I go, or do I take the new idea, have fun with it, and just accept that I’m many pages behind?
I’m opting for the latter. It should be much more fun. Sort of an insane tangled fairy-tale thing, but…not. I mean, only the setting is fairy-tale-ish. I’m not sure how I would do it without it turning into an “Enchanted Forest Chronicles” thing, but I think it would be easy enough….
At the same time, the only thing wrong with Sasha’s tale is the characters. Oh, and the entire plot.
Ummm…
This is oddly reminiscent of last year… And NaNo. *dies again*
OK. I’ll stick with Sasha. Disnce writing down the new idea I’ve become increasingly unhappy with it, so obviously Sasha has a longer life. I just wish she acted her age.
203 – Yeah, just stick to Sasha. You can always work on the new idea after Screnzy is over, or next year, if you still like it then. Or you could somehow work in parts of that story into the current one, if possible.
As of last night:
PaCo – 26 1/4
Rescue Squadron Urania’s Night absolutely pwns.
204-*is jealous* of PaCo
WoCo: 4229
PaCo: 15 and a line or so
Plus tons of homework! Ew.
205 – I’m quickly running out of ideas, though.
I’ll find some dares, though, and get the ideas flowing again.
I have 24 pages!
207 – Congratulations. I’ve been stalling lately, mostly because I don’t know what houses everybody is in. ._.
206-You can do it, yes you can!
207-*just about dies of jealousy for the second time*
I am going to try to be at 20 by the end of the day. I am writing more short dialogue now, which fills the pages and introducing a bunch of extras. Its a bit cheap but its the only way I stand a chance. Ah well.
I am horrid at not procrastinating.
I love Scene Six’s name…
SCENE SIX – IN WHICH CAT’S MEOW AND IBCF LEARN A LITTLE MORE ABOUT MUSE ACADEMY WHILE ALICE LIES ON A STRETCHER FOR THE ENTIRE SCENE
Anyways, I’m approaching 30 pages. And procrastinating again. Aargh.
208- There’s a handy list on the Muse Academy thread part 2.
211- Haha. Very funny. *lies on stretcher*
No, actually, it’s really funny.
I haven’t been putting in scene names this time around…
212 – I know, but some of the people who asked to be characters aren’t on that list.
I’m at 30 pages, mostly because I just wrote a page long poem that’s along the lines of the Sorting Hat’s song in Harry Potter.
I’ve been procrastinating by writing about MA. *sigh* I must get back to work for the next ten minutes before I go get stuff for my English project and am sucked into the gaping maw of the Homework Beast.
213 – I have, just because they’re fun to write. Even though I write them at the start of the scene and then, inevitably, what I said would happen doesn’t happen so I have to go back and change it.
216- I might go back and put them in. They’ll boost my page count some and add some humor.
217 – True.
I’m still at 30 pages, because I got distracted by Wikipedia. Wikipedia is very distracting. Very.
My script is boring me right now. I need something interesting to happen. -goes to look through list of dares- The problem is that nothing else really intersting can happen until they start classes, and they haven’t even been sorted yet. -sighhhh-
Hey, Alice, would you mind possibly being a zombie later on?
211-*laughs*
Thats quite funny! I really wish I had time to write my script but I haven’t added on all day. The fault of history. I have to redo my outline for this paper and *goes on tangent*. Well, maybe I’ll make it to 20 by the end of the day.
Also, Cat’s Meow, I posted a profile on this thread (yes I know its late, so don’t feel at all obliged to use it).
Toodloo everyone.
Wait, never mind I just saw your hare-athon message. Embarassed face. Happy writing and wikipediaing (I so agree its distracting)
219- Being a zombie? Yeah, I think I would mind. I’ve already been a zombie once, and it was no fun, no fun at all.
…7 pages.
222 – Darn. I’ll find something else to do, then. xD
I really haven’t written much today. I am on page 17. Sad. Maybe more later. *is cheered by the prospect of writing more later* *Injures facial muscles by switching from frown to smile too quickly*
I just hit page 18. Huzzah! Now I’m off to do HW. It’ll be a miracle if I manage to stay off of Museblog for more than 15 minutes, though. Actually it would be a miracle if I managed to stay off of Museblog for 10 minutes. Even two minutes would be a miracle. Not that I want to.
Page 8.
Ahhhgdarnit. And I had an actual plot, too, and it was actually good… and my script doesn’t do it justice but if I don’t finish it’ll jut have gone to waste….
I think I’ll write for about half an hour now. I’ve just come to an excruciatingly difficult scene involving a speech made by a politician (Socialist) that I am a little worried about. I mean, if I’m planning on having half my characters drone on about how inspirational it is, I should atleast make it somewhat decent. WHich scares me. Which really scares me. I don’t do inspirational speeches. Ah well. I’m off to test my limitations!
page: 28 3/4
Page 30! w00t!
Sorry.
226 – I do that a lot. I don’t think I could live without multi-tasking, which means that I get a lot of nothing done on my script.
Which, speaking of which, is currently 34 1/4 pages long.
Neophytes are being sorted right now. Including Alice, who is half dead. Or not. Cat’s Meow and IBCF are rather confused right now.
I finally hit 20, making me semi-sort-of on track. Sort of, mind you. Toodloo.
Oh dear. I suppose I just gave away my identidy, didn’t I?
232 – Considering it’s still the fifth day, you are certainly on track. To make it you really only have to do 3 1/3 pages a day.
234-*feels reassured* Thats true…
This is probably a triple post. But I must make this announcement.
I AM BORED OF MY SCRIPT.
And it’s Day 5. And I have 35 2/3 pages.
But it’s horribly boring me, because nothing’s happening except a bunch of people talking about nothing interesting.
I need aliens. Or, better yet, radioactive bunnies, which is much more likely to happen. But it can’t happen until several other things happen, and those just happen to be the parts that are boring me.
Gah.
I found a new way to procrastinate: write random poetry about Screnzy.
Wishing for words
That won’t appear
Every page
Takes years and years
Every action
Every line
To finish I’ll need
Intervention divine
Procrastination galore
Isn’t it fun?
Playing pointless games
While some have already won
Script Frenzy, Script Frenzy
Every year we will write
During hours of scribbling
In daylight or night
Geez, that was horrible.
I have to go to bed.
Final PaCo for today: 35 1/2 pages
Cats Meow – i am in Lasley house
237-Thats actually fantastic! Its brilliant. *cackles madly*
Cat’s Meow-I’ll apply, if you still need peoples.
237- I’m with Hypatia on that one.
Ergh. I really want to write, but I have to work on my English project…. *drags self off to her bedroom*
238 – Thanks.
240 – Actually, I already put you as a member of Rescue Squadron Urania’s Night. I figured you wouldn’t mind because I found some notice on an old thread saying you gave permission to be in anyone’s fanfictions/Screnzies/NaNos. You’re still okay with that, right?
hmmmmmmmm. What interesting could happen in your script? What is your play about anyway? About people in the blog?
I am so excited to be in someone’s script. *hollers from excitement* Okay. Now that I got that out of me. I haven’t written today, as much as I want to. History. *growls* Maybe later. O and I have English too, fantastic. Just what I need (sarcastically).
I should work on this…
I started writing. Maybe I’ll get to 25. That is, if I am really lucky, procrastinate a lot, and write a lot of fillers, I stand some vague and practically non-extant chance of making it. *feels unduly pessimistic* *remembers Disney* *regains cheer*
243 – Yeah, it’s about Muse Academy.
List of interesting things that could happen:
Someone could fall off a cliff
Sir Bunny could reappear (This is going to happen anyways)
I could kill off all my characters in a rant scene (This would be fun if I wasn’t one of my own characters) Although, a nuclear bomb might be nice.
Hmm. Must consider this.
SECOND WEEK SLOG ALERT.
Anyways, I think this would be easier if more people were doing this. But there’s only 5 people or so.
35.
I have 28 pages. But I’ve gone back and put scene titles in, and now I’m slightly confused about whether or not a CUT TO means that it’s starting a new scene or not.
I’m going to assume it does.
Hem. Hem.
The second week slog
Is a most abdominable bog,
But it detracts from its evil to write poems about it on the blog.
I feel that my laziness is soon to proliferate,
And make me finish my script far too late,
I have fallen for that terrible bate,
That we call procrastination-ate!!
Tada my dysfunctional poem.
*furtively avoids all questions (of which there have been none) regarding PaCo*
Huh. I’m getting bored with my story. Even though they still have three villains to defeat, in this order:
HPBs (apparently)
Malacour
Watson
HPBs (really)
Oh, and we have to figure out Peter’s Mysterious Past. And maybe run into Sasha’s parents, whom she is attempting to spite by going on an Adventure without them.
But I want something fun to happen. This is kind of boring.
I have 35 2/3 pages. Still. But I’m hoping Scene Nine will make it a little more interesting.
SCENE NINE – IN WHICH A VERY PLEASANT HOUSE MEETING TURNS DISASTEROUS WITH THE ARRIVAL OF AN UNEXPECTED, AND QUITE UNWELCOMED, GUESS
Doesn’t that just scream drama?
Anywhoo, following Hypatia’s lead I shall also compose a poem. For no real reason.
I hate my script
It bores me to death
I wish I was done with it
Like I’m done with this breath
Maybe it would be easier
To buy some time
If every character
Could only talk in rhyme
That would certainly add pages
And be more interesting as well
Something is telling me
This idea is swell
But, really, realistically
How could this be?
My characters won’t want to
Can not you see?
Perhaps it could be a curse
A jinx, or a spell
A class for aspiring poets
Might work, as well
Whatever, I don’t care
My script bores me to death
I guess my characters will be rhyming
With each and every breath
‘Til the writer’s block is broken
And my ideas are set free
And, then, only then
Will I be filled with glee
No applause – just throw ideas.
252- i know exactly what you mean. And I keep on introducing new characters to make up for that. WHich is bad. Really bad. Becuase I have totally lost track.Ugh!
252 – Maybe we should each give each other dares that have to be completed in the current scene. Hypatia, too, since all of us appear to be slogging. For example, everyone could have to include a swordfight before the scene is done, or introduce a new character named Ink. Or do SOMETHING that would get the ideas flowing again.
Introducing a new character named Ink sounds fun, actually. I could have an anthropomorphic ink bottle.
I meant “I”. Woops.
I absolutely adore your poems. With a serious passion. I really think they’re brilliantly fantastic.
Its odd that you should say that about talking in rhyme as that just what my protagonist does. And its worse than normal talking. Atleast for me.
I think I will include a swordfight and take you up on that dare. I dare you, in return, to have someone drop chocolate out of a window. If that works. If not, I can think up something a little more harmless.
255- Swordfight, or Ink? Or do we take our pick? Or think of something else?
Um….
257 – Thanks! ^_^ The inspiration from that came when I realized that if I’m more interested in writing poems then dialouge right now, why not have the dialogue in poem? It also takes up more pages then just normal dialouge.
Oh, and I can totally take you up on the chocolate thing.
258 – Your pick. You can dare us in return, too.
I’ve got 371/2 pages. I’m walking on sunshine right now.
Who’s doing Script Frenzy:
Jadestone- Last check in, PaCo:8
Hypatia-last check in, PaCo: ?25?
Cat’s Meow-last check in, PaCo:35 1/2
Alice-Last Check in, PaCo:28
TMFA:PaCo: 37 1/2
We all (Minus Jadestone) are over the minimum for the day, at least.
My main character is reminding me increasingly or a very very bad and somewhat more cynical spoof of Cyrano De Bergerec. My plot reminds me of some ridiculously nonsensical combination of EM Foster’s Passage to India and some Hemmingway book. My antagonist character reminds me of a terrible (and I mean terrible) copy of Orlich from Great Expectations and my writing reminds me of *tries to remember worst book ever read*. I feel un-original (and low quality). *grinds teeth* Well, the sword fight should spice things up.
258- I Think It’s like the dare threads on SF.
But I don’t need that right now.
Oh, and speaking of poetry, I may as well post my Muse Academy Sorting Song.
ALL GAPAS
Welcome to Muse Academy
Home of the curious and the smart
We are the weilders of education
In writing, music, science, and art
ROBERT
If you love research and studies
Come hither, and hello!
For a lover of scientific facts
Coontz House is the place to go!
REBECCA
For a dreamer, a looker
And a true wizard with art
We will welcome you to Lasley House!
Where the artistic stand apart
PAUL
You can never forget music
Especially that of the wonderful sort
Whether on guitar or hurdy-gurdy
Baker House holds down the fort!
ROSANNE
For those who always have a pencil
A paper, and a rhyming dictionary
Come along, to Spector House!
Where writers will always be merry
ALL GAPAS
Whatever house you end up in
We hope that we will please thee
We GAPAs are proud to welcome you
As neophytes of Muse Academy
OK. In the next three scenes:
• Someone will throw chocolate out of a window
• I will introduce a character named Ink, who speaks only in rhyme
• There will be a swordfight
In whatever order works best.
262- *clap clap clap* I can hardly wait to read your script. You know you can post excerpts on the Screnzy site… *coughhintwinknudgecough*
264 – Sounds good.
It’s reeeeally hard to focus when I’m chatting on 3 different website. I should probably stop for now. On the other two, of course, not the blog.
265- Unfortunately, I’m Unofficial YWP.
Plus, I REALLY Want to sell this script. for $500,000.
264-I’ll do ’em too. Save for introducing Ink since my protagonist already speaks all in rhyme. I actually just got pretty excited. Huzzah.
PaCo: 22 Far from brilliant. But on schedule.
I still really hate my script. It sounds so unoriginal and prosaic and void of life and (cherry on the sundae time) horribly written. But I sort of enjoy writing it!
38!
Oh right, I have to think of a dare now…
Meet an electric kangaroo who can only say random and completely unrelated words such as “chasm” and “liver.” Bonus points of one of your characters holds a conversation with it.
Sorry if this is a triple post.
I’m going to post a Excerpt. :
EXT. Sphinx-9:30
The Protector’s group is walking around the sphinx.
TROY
Whats this?
Troy pushes on something. a block slides back
PAUL
A door! Quick, Thru!
Troy enters, Followed by the rest. Twit and Paul are at the end.
ROBERT
hieroglyphics! here you are in a sphinx, nearing the item of your search- eat at SPHINXTREATS!
PAUL
They had Ads!
TROY
Wow.
ROBERT
It makes sense. how else could they afford this?
LIBBY
Point taken.
PAUL
Lets get moving, O.k?
Troy picks up a torch from the wall. The rest do the same. they walk up a flight of stairs to find a chamber. in the middle of the chamber is a box. there is a golden beetle in it. Robert and troy run to it.
TROY
Wow. it’s , it’s…
ROBERT
A scarab beetle.
LIBBY
Wow.
GIRL #1
Quick, put it some where!
Troy stuffs it into his back pack. They start of a set of stairs. at the top of them is a door. it opens into the outside. twele kids wait for them.
GEORGE
Guys, We’ve got them.
George runs forward, followed by a bunch of the kids. Karil and Sophie rush the other way.
GEORGE
Come on, Guys, Are You scared of fighting? Didn’t Paul Tell You There was evil?
TROY
Yes, But We Didn’t know it was our age.
GEORGE
Well, It is! Now!
Karil and Shopie rush into the children from the back. Troy Runs forward towards George.
GEORGE
What the?
troy Kicks george. he falls to the ground.
GEORGE
now, What!
George gets up. He amuses Kun-fu movie stance.
GEORGE
The different, Buddy, Is that I know kun-fu!
TROY
Uh-oh!
George Starts to kick at troy. He Tries his best to get at George, but he can’t. He Kick At geogre, But George does a Back flip. Suddenly, Libby runs in and kicks George out of the fight.
LIBBY
Well, That’s taken care of!
PAUL
come on, we need to get going. We Don’t want that to happen agian!
TROY
Were to?
PAUL
Mayan Relics!
LIBBY
Cool. Mexico.
263-That is really super duper cool.
Voila an excerpt.
When a man begins to talk of nobility/ There appears between me and him hostility/ Large talk too often occasions large fights/ And yet more frequently loss of natural rights./ It is for this that I fear the Demagogue/ He makes civilization into a bog/ While casting our minds into a fog. / Oblivious, we blindly follow his rule / I fear that he is a most abdominable fool.
My protagonist says it. Hooray for all the bad poetry that this script will give me occasion to write. Oh and if no one onjects I might have a ham go flying out the window along with the chocolate. Or maybe a beer mug. ANd it will definitily hit someone on the head. But who? THis could get wierd. Very very weird.
I’d Like to post a key, But I’m Trying to take a video break. But I can’t!
271-Intrigue!
My characters seem to be giving eachother a lot of scathing looks!
Sorry about the double post.
270-I might have to change kangaroo to person, but I like that idea! Alot. Or maybe I will have my Orlich-ish character get hit by the chocolate and ham and go mental and say things like that. And maybe I am going slightly mental as well. And maybe I like it that way. And maybe I need to hit submit this very instant.
Here’s my excerpt:
SCENE NINE-IN WHICH THERE IS NEARLY A SHOCKING WASTE OF CHOCOLATE, PREVENTED BY A WELL-TIMED STROLL, OR RATHER A JOURNEY, BY GEOFFREY, SASHA, AND PETER, WHO SOON REALIZE WHY THEY ARE GIFTED WITH CHOCOLATE FALLING FROM THE SKY, AND THE ANSWER ISN’T A PLEASANT ONE
With titles like that, you don’t even need a scrip!
Now I just have to figure out why they’re gifted with chocolate falling from the sky. I think it might be poisoned, but I’m not sure how we can find that out without killing one of them. I could kill Peter without too much grief, but he has a Mysterious Past. And I can’t kill Sasha, ’cause she’s the Main Character, and I like Geoffrey too much.
DARE: Make your Caractors talk about Tuna Salad, Egg Salad, eg.
276 – Kill the random kangaroo character. Or Ink.
I just realized how strange “Kill the random kangaroo character” looks in the “Who’s Talking” sidebar.
Here’s what’s going to happen:
Sasha is walking in a chocolate-induced coma, when they come across a man with a long beard sitting at a crossroads. He holds a conversation with them that is partially about salad. Then the kangaroo character approaches, and tries to kill Sasha, who duels him. During the duel there will be the usual clichèd exchange of witty banter, only instead of actually saying something intelligible, they will exchange words. Then something will happen.
I just completed the “Throw the chocolate out the window” dare. The “chocolate bar” was actually a time bomb that got thrown through the window into Spector House, and then Canix through it back out the window, and then it exploded into a portal that Sir Bunny, Lawrence Pinklin, and Qwerty (the electric kangaroo that talks only in random words) come out of.
*pant pant pant* That’s the last time Ink says ANYTHING. Maybe the kangaroo-thing will kill him, so he never has to speak in rhyme AGAIN.
I’m sort of thinking of going back and editing mine once I’m done so it’s a screenplay instead of a stage play. Right now several things are happening that would probably be impossible in a stage play.
I’m going to add Double Bonus Points to the Kangaroo dare: All of the words the kangaroo says have been generated by a random word generator.
281-That’s quite excessively hilarious.
I’am at 22 and probably won’t get much more in today. I haven’t completed any of the dares but I know just where they’ll go. *cackles madly*
285 – It’s Muse Academy. What do you expect?
Also, right now a radioactive green bunny in a suit is threatening everybody in Spector House with a blue kangaroo. Named Arph.
That was fun. I’m going to post an excerpt now.
PETER nods. SASHA mutters something unintelligible. GEOFFREY turns around.
GEOFFREY
Good lord!
KANGAROO is approaching on the road behind them. It comes along extremely fast and in no time is right next to them, wielding a sword.
KANGAROO
Addition!
SASHA reaches behind her and pulls a sword from a previous unnoticed stone.
SASHA
Parade!
The swords clash.
KANGAROO
Programming! Football! Interval!
SASHA
Disk…
She makes an exceptionally hard jab and misses.
KANGAROO
Fetch!
PETER and GEOFFREY are gaping. INK does not seem to notice the battle.
SASHA
Inefficiency. Answer. Typewriter!!!
KANGAROO barely misses her arm. She stabs again, and this time she hits it. Its pouch explodes in a shower of sparks.
KANGAROO
Advantage.
It turns on INK and slashes at the cobwebs, but it is failing and anly manages to trim the old man’s beard.
SASHA
DIALOG!
She stabs again, and KANGAROO falters and comes to a stop, dropping the sword.
SASHA
Ringing…
I almost feel sorry for Arph. (Arph is my kangaroo. I got his name by taking the first letters of words I generated using a random word generator) He doesn’t understand anything that’s said to him, and he just says random nouns, and Sir Bunny has forced him into virtual slavery. Not really, since he goes along with him willingly, but he really doesn’t understand what he’s supposed to be doing.
I have extreme sympathy for the villians in this chapter.
I need more dares!
289 – Aren’t there already at least 5 on this thread?
But, if you really need one…here’s three. You can pick one or more to use.
1. Have a talking clock.
2. Introduce two new characters: a boy and his dog. You decide what to do from there.
3. Your characters suddenly hear some myterious music coming from somewhere off in the distance.
I am like 93.14159% sure that my writer’s block has gone away. I wrote almost 10 pages today, so I’m up to 44. And 2/3. And I still have more ideas. But I think I’m going to stop here for the night.
So, I leave you with one final poem, the version of the Spector House song that the Spector House people in my story make up on the spot. (It’s their way of excercizing their minds.)
In a land not far away
In this very time
There exists dear Spector House
Foe of reason, friend of rhymes
With full notebooks and sharp pencils
The pen will prove mighter then the sword
In Spector House the sharp of mind
Will never end up bored
When others try to top Spector House
They never pass the test
The creativity of Spector House
Will always be the best!
290- I went through them way too fast. I’ll stretch the other ones out for longer. Thank you.
Hey Meow, have I recovered yet?
291 – Okay.
292- Um, sort of. You’re concious, but you’re still in a hospital bed. And you managed to convince IBCF and Canix to carry your hospital bed outside so that you can watch the epic Canix vs. Arph fight-to-the-near-death.
SCRIPPED WORKS AT MY SCHOOl. YAAAAY!
My dad has to drop me off early at school each morning for 5 days, because my mom and brother are all the way across the state for a week, and he has to get to work. That means that (at the best) I may have an hour to work on my script every morning.
Success! I got to use the word “Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis” in my script!
295- *clapclapclapclapclapclapclapclap*
296 – It was a dare.
Oh, and, in case anybody is wondering, IBCF, Hypatia, Cat’s Meow, and Canix just got taken prisoner by Sir Bunny and Lawrence Pinklin because Canix lost the one-on-one duel against Arph.
And I’m at the top of Page 49 right now.
I’m hoping to get to 50 before the end of the day!
297- What? I’ve been imprisoned by a bunny and a pinklin?
298 – We have all been. See, Sir Bunny made a bet with the Musers. If Canix won the duel against Arph, Sir Bunny, Lawrence Pinklin, and Arph would stop popping up every 30 seconds to annoy everybody. But if Arph won, Sir Bunny, Lawrence Pinklin, and Arph would get to kidnap IBCF, Hypatia, Cat’s Meow, and Canix.
And Canix was about to win, but then Arph used his leet magical powerz (which none of the Musers knew about) and beat him. So we all got taken prisoner.
But, don’t worry. Ink will help us escape.
50 PAGES! HALFWAY THERE! W00T!
Oh no. ._. The Script Frenzy website is blocked at school.
At least Scripped isn’t. I’ve made lots of progress today.
*dies discreetly*
Mh. PaCo: 27
*is excessively excited at being imprisoned with such a distinguished company*
I wrote a little in school today. A little. Ah well. To 30 today. And then..who knows what tomorrow will bring?
I’ve decided not to do Script Frenzy…I only have 2 pages, and it just hasn’t been as fun as last year. I think the main thing is that I’ve been spending almost no time on the computer lately, partly because of homework, but mostly because it has been so warm lately and I have been spending all of my time outside.
Good luck, everyone!
302 – You had better be excited, considering you volunteered to go in Alice’s place. (Because Alice was still in pretty bad condition and if Sir Bunny had taken her she probably would have died or been paralyzed or something. And that would be bad)
303 – Aww.
Working on page 27. One of my characters just entered with chocolate splattered all over his face. He got hit by the stuff that was chucked out the widnow. By the way, Alice, your kangaroo scene (in case I ommited to mention this before) cracked me up, excessively.
304-Yay! Volunteering always pays off. I’m sorry Alice though. *sends Alice in Cat Meow’s script “Feel Better” balloon and bowl of cherries (lots of medicinal value, at least according to some or other issue of Muse)*
*huffs and puffs* 28 pages and I am off to do homework.
*eats cherries* Thanks!
I haven’t done any more yet (just got home). But I had some ideas today.
I am infirm. I am sad.
But at least I’m not dead.
Or a zombie.
I’m probably not going to get a ton done right now, since I have to get ready for soccer practice. I predict that I’m going to have at least an hour and a half a day to work on it at school, though.
40 pages! *faints on keyboard*
ghfffffffffffffff (that was me fainting)
I’m so tired…
jn
5U
Maybe I’ll just go to sleep on the keyboard and see what words I make…
No… Must go update pagecount… Then homework…then sleep.
310-Congwats! *gives rejuvenating choklit* *dies of jealousy*
HYPATIA
[i]Sarcastically[i]
I have a whopping 28. Huzzah!
I haven’t been updating my pagecount. Maybe I should. Gosh. So much stress. Not to mention…ENGLISH HOMEWORK *dies repeatedly*
I have 42 or 43.
Good job, everybody.
311- Sorry about the English homework.
I finished mine today. THANK THE MUSES.
314 – Congratz!
Oh, and I have an excerpt up on my Screnzy profile, if anyone wants to read.
315- Cool.
Did anyone read mine? What do you think? I may replace it with the kangaroo scene.
42 pages!!!
I felt obliged to tell you that, it being The Number and all.
316 – Keep it up for a little while (or post it on this thread) because I want to read it. But the Screnzy website is blocked at my school, so I won’t be able to until this afternoon.
317 – Congratulations!
316- it was great.
Hey! Scariest thing thats happened to me all year *dramatic music plays* I HAVE NO HOMEWORK! I am going to try to get to 35 today. : ) I checked the screnzy site today and updated my page count. I also checked everyone else’s excerpts and I absolutely adore them! It was so cool and exciting. I love!!! Okay, end of rant for now! I am off to write! Squee! Seeing the site made me so blooming excited!
320 – I’ve been really lucky so far in April that I’ve had almost no homework. For the first week it was Spring Break, and now I still have minimal homework. The only homework I have is (ugh) standerized testing practice. WHICH IS NEXT WEEK.
Standerized Testing = Gag
My school’s bell just went off. It sounds like a fire alarm. I’m going to stop rambling now and write. Maybe.
321-Eep. That is lucky. My spring break was over on March 31. Brilliant right? Standardized testing is bleh to the extreme and so are bells that sound like fire alarms. : )
314-Thanks. Nice going. This sounds so corny so I think I’ll add *pies*
322 – Aww, that’s bad luck. One of things I remember Alice commenting on at the Kokon was how lucky I was to have Spring Break at the start of April. I honestly hadn’t even thought of it until then.
And testing = awful. And my school is good about it, too…
We don’t start WASL (That’s our state’s standardized test) prep until the week before. Some schools start in January.
AND MY LUCKY BROTHER GETS TO MISS THE WHOLE WEEK OF WASL PREP.
Wow, this post has nothing to do with Script Frenzy so far, does it?
I’m not going to get much writing done today. My dad and I are going over to a soccer teammate’s house to watch the NCAA women’s championship game. In case anyone’s wondering, GO STANFORD.
I just can’t focus on writing today, can I? -sigh-
323-Have fun watching soccer. By the way, I absolutely adore the title of your script!
I am so infernally bored that I’m going to go write a Field and Lab report now.
Instead of writing.
I’m at 43 pages. SO CLOSE TO FIFTY. And yet I lack the willpower to pull ahead.
NO! NO! Foul slog, begone! *hits Second Week Slog over the head with her shoe*
OOH! Inspiration!
But I did need to write that report…
I’m going to use ink and kangaroo now.
44.
324 – Basketball, actually. And thanks!
I think I need more dares. It’s funny. I can’t even write anymore unless I have dares.
OH NOEZ, A DARE ADDICTION. 
I’m pretty sure Ink’s going to turn out evil in my script. But that means I have to keep him in and keep him rhyming.
328- Um, O.k.:
talk about light.
328-Woops. I am semi-clueless. Voila my somewhat lame dare: *thinks* Sorry but I honestly have no idea. *feels useless*. I will write one down as soon as my mind starts functioning.
For now: PaCo 31
47.
I put in a excerpt and updated my profile. Squee!
Hi, I’m not writing a screnzy, but I wanted to drop by. What is a Screnzy?
333- Screnzy = Script Frenzy = a program in which you attempt to write a 100-page script in the month of April.
334 – Why?
335- ‘Cause we can.
335 – Because we can, and it gives us a motivation to write. And it’s just fun!
335- why not?
335-For kicks!
I am at 34. Its really super exciting!
339- 50.
Nice. I feel behind but I think I can make it. Will persevere. Will persevere. Will persevere. Will prevail. *collapses* Still 34. I am going to go friend you people on Script Frenzy.
My unofficial script is at 17 pages! Pretty pathetic, but at least I’m getting somewhere.
Wow. Maybe I’ll try it next year.
341- you only need 2 more pages.
By the way, I just did a Word Count, and it 6166
345-What!!! I am at 34 pages and my WoCo is 8428. Thats odd. But I guess it has to do with whether the script is mostly dialogue or monologue. Mine is primarily monologues which shortens it significantly.
ARGH. I haven’t written at all in the past two days, and I’m leaving on the 17th and will have no access to a computer (or will I? *remembers Salmon Bowl trip and the hotel computers*) until the 20th.
Remind me to get a swimsuit by the 17th. The hotel has a pool, and I’m not repeating all the follies of my Salmon Bowl trip.
347-*reminds* I’m sure you can do it. *believes in Alice*
I’m still at like 56-ish. I’ve had soccer practice like crazy for the past few days..and I have it tomorrow, too.
Script Frenzy has been incredibly helpful lately, though. In History this week we’re doing skits, and I could show off to everybody with my awesomely formatted scripts while everyone else was still using Microsoft Word – the amatures.
Oh, and my history teacher also happens to be the main drama teacher at our school (it’s a small school) and he suggested that I write a script over the summer that kids from our school would actually put on.
THAT WOULD BE SO COOL. @_@
ILY, Script Frenzy!
Wow. I have done practically no work on my Screnzy in 3 whole days. -sigh-
350-Same. And unlike you, I’m not sufficiently far for that to be ok. Still at 34 pages. *sighs emphatically*
351 – Wow, we all seem to be having this problem.
Yup, I’m in the same boat. I have two pages over the goal for today.
I’m not, If I Right Now.
I think I’m giving up. I would rather spend time with my best friend, who’s moving to Vermont. I won’t see her a lot again, even if she visits, and I can do SF any year.
I feel sadistic. I cannot wait for the moment when I kill my character. *wants to inflict pain on characters in script* I disturb myself. Right, now that I got that out of me…I have no idea what to say.
356- Yeah. It’s weird.
Yay! I have 44 pages, so I’m not behind anymore!
60!
That Kangaroo is a great addition! It’s moving into full charterhood!
New thread?
I still have 56. I think. I haven’t exactly checked in days.
I still have 35 and I just rammed into the two-week wall with an inordinate amount of strength. I think I’ll go watch some Westerns!
360 – Yeah, I love my kangaroo. Ink has been helpful too.
262 – Ooh, a new thread would be great!
363 – Ouch. That has to hurt.
Have fun watching Westerns.
The wall… oh yah… It’s felling like a wall of air right now.
364- Ink was a rocket ship sales man! And the Kangaroo was his!
-blows up the wall-
Maybe I’ll try to go write now.
Adios, por un momento.
(Goodbye, for a moment.)
Ugh. I didn’t realize that SF had started until two days ago…
Oh well! Not going to let that stop me. I’ve got thirty pages already… *goes off to work*
364-Thanks. It was a good movie (The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance). And I still have only 35 pages. *dies repeatedly*
368-How ever did you manage to write that much?
Ugh. *wall resists all efforts at dynamite* My history paper sabotaged my stock. Adios!
*borrows some of Meow’s dynamite* *bashes at the wall with hammer* *sits down in defeat* Sigh…
I need to write four more pages today, at LEAST. And I don’t know what to do with it.
*sighs again* *wanders off*
369- I… write fast. Especial when I find out that SF started nine days before the time of the beginning of the writing.
I’m still stuck at 56. I don’t think I’ve written at all for about 5 days, except for a single line yesterday.
And I’m seriously considering randomly blowing up all of my characters. Except I’m one of them. Or maybe I’ll blow them up and then have everybody mysteriously come back to life. That sounds fun.
I’m pretty much doing a repeat of a previous scene.
Only not, because this time Zwilling (the kangaroo) joins their band of explorers.
At the moment my main character is arguing with her sidekick about whether or not to break this other super-villain out of jail…
Just broke the 72 page mark. 72 is a good number for day 12. it’s 6 pages a day.
Ok. I am officially resigning myself to shooting for 75. Tada for me! Not.
377- how old are you?
Ancient. Not. Infantile (well, thats a pretty accurate description of my maturity level but not of my biological age). I am honestly internet mortified, so I am scared to say. Lets just say, below 15 and above 10.
378- She’s on the regular program, if that’s what you were wondering.
Geez, I’m procrastinating. -goes to attempt to write-
379- I’d guess 13, but that’s just me.
Jees, I’m 12, and I’m doing the best.
382-*coughthatscoughjustcoughrightcough* But I never said that!
383 – Meh. I just have major unmotivation this week for some reason.
Anybody have dares for me that might help?
385- put a penguin in!
386 – You have no idea how ironic that is. But, sure, will do.
387- why is is Ironic?
388 – It’s a long story.
389- how short can you make it?
389-*chortles* That name is simply hilarious!
390 – Pretty short, I guess. One of my friends on another website that I go on is obsessed with penguins, and right as you posted that he had made a speech about why penguins were awesome. So it was just sort of funny.
391 – Yeah, POSOC makes up extended names for people sometimes. I’ve always liked mine, Vocalization of Feline.
–CAT’S MEOW
391- Um, Wow. I didn’t know that, and on the random thread I wrote about your name that it was like something POSOC would call a neophyte. Small
worldblog, I guess.*hums along to TMFA*
The name is really quite spiffing.
(I mean Vocalization of A Feline)
383 – If you’ve written 72 pages in 12 days, and I’ve written 40 in three (since I started writing on the 9th), then you have an average of 6 pages per day and I have an average of 13 1/3 pages per day. Therefore, even though I have fewer pages then you do, I am doing the best. However, you are almost 3/4 of the way to the goal, whereas I am just a smidge under half. Shall we call it a tie?
396- Tie.Untill I win.
396- Tie.Untill I win.
398- Right.
393 – Aargh, now it’s stuck in my head.
My goal is to get to 60 by the end of today. And I’m going to include the penguin.
YAY! I GOT TO KILL OFF ALL MY MAIN CHARACTERS!
And, as a bonus, I got to kill off Lawrence Pinklin as well!
401- how happy for you!
402 – It was very satisfactory.
I hit 60 pages. I think that’s about all I’m going to accomplish today, though.
I’m writing a scene in the H&H.
Sasha’s going to get involved in a card game, I know it.
405 – !!!
Smart! I need to work the H&H into my script somehow. HMMM.
!!!
-has inspiration-