Script Frenzy (a.k.a. “Screnzy”) is fast approaching. A quick self-description:
Script Frenzy is an international writing event in which participants take on the challenge of writing 100 pages of scripted material in the month of April.
The first step is brainstorming and bouncing ideas off friends. This is a place for that.
Yay! I’M certainly going to do Script Frenzy.
I’m actually not going to plan, so I’ll go in blindly. Is that an absolutely terrible idea?
Probably not. That’s mostly how I got through NaNo, and it didn’t crash and burn… go for it! I’d like to see what you come up with.
I think I’m going to attempt to do it, but judging by how my NaNo turned out, it’ll be a bunch of random scripts shoved together.
Although, for some reason my email is already registered at the Screnzy website, and when I click “forgot your password” it doesn’t give me anything. So, that concludes, that I will do it, but I won’t be putting it into the Screnzy website anytime soon. (AKA, never.)
Enc, that’s not a terrible idea. That’s what I’m going to do.
Is it cheating to start now? If so, I’m going to have to do it anyway, but I’ll probably never finish anyway.
I think I’ll try that this year. If I get my own computer…I think I’ll adapt Annie On My Mind, which I’ve been meaning to do for awhile, if that’s allowed.
Any kind of scripts? Are comic book scripts okay?
Yes, the YWP site specifically mentions comic book scripts. Has a page on how to format them, too.
Yeah.
I’m think of doing a 52 like script (real-time).
Some Heros are found, Some Heros are made. But in the end, all must stop the Darkness
365. (Really, Really bad title)
I’m probably doing this, but I think I’ll make use of my Screnzy account on the Children’s site. Only write twenty five pages or so.
Hm. A group of children trapped in time. A-
Wait. A group of children trapped in time. No. A group of children trapped in Time. With Time as an alternate dimension. Full of clocks, swirling vortices…
Yes.
This works.
What kind of scripts, exactly? A movie script would be cool… then I could submit it to some big-name company and make several million dollars…
DESTRUCTIVE:
Yeah. Not going to happen.
Sorry.
CONSTRUCTIVE:
A movie script is what most people write. Then in 6+ months of editing, you could summit it to
a small indy producer for $5000 to $500,000(That would be really high)a small agent that may or may not accept it, and then, via them, summit to small producers or maybe a large producer. and still be rejected, and not make a lot of money.Wow. Even my constructive was slightly negative.
Sorry???
Well, it could happen.
You know, if muselover happens to be a reallyreally amazing movie writer, as good as or better than any of the nationally acclaimed ones, and his movie is sheer genius.
But yeah. Most movies don’t end up being famous, don’t end up making you millions of dollars, and probably usually don’t even get made into movies.
I encourage you to try, though. Even without the million dollar incentive, it’s a really fun experience. And there is always a chance that someday it’ll be made into a movie, and be moderately successful, if not amazingly so.
I was kidding! Kidding…
I had this epic idea for a musical about the pirate/ninja conflict with a RomeoandJulietesque (new word) sort of a plot, because all musicals have really awkward plotlines where everyone falls madly in love way too quickly, with the ship’s boy and some lowly girl in a ninja camp falling in love, despite heir differences.
I also have the opening number somewhat planned out a ls well, although I haven’t written any music yet. A group of pirates are singing on the stage, as a large number of ninjas are creeping in from everywhere, through the wings and the house and maybe even descending from ropes on the ceiling, and they start slowly and silently killing off pirates, until there are only one or a small group left. That’s as far as I’ve gotten, as for w definitave plot.
Actually, I think I’m going to write a few episodes of the Embi family.
Ooh, good idea. I might do that, too.
Maybe someone could write one about a mass Kokon – as briefly discussed on the Lists, Lists, Lists thread. I might, if I decide to do it.
I loved NaNoWriMo, so I’m totally going to do Script Frenzy. Goodbye, the rest of my life in April…
Right. Though I loved my group of children trapped in Time idea, I decided I can’t really see that as a movie, so it’ll be a novel later.
So I went and pressed the Plot Generator thing on both sites a bunch of times, taking all the elements I liked.
So now I have a Siren who lost her voice traveling across the universe with a fed up lab mouse, a clumsy knife-throwing weasel, and a talkative computer, searching for pixie dust and along the way meeting a group of royals including a narcoleptic princess, a generous king, the emperor’s second assistant, a group of Star Wars fanatics, possibly some hippies, a rebellious runaway from Texas, robots programed to water-ski, radioactive unicorns, robotic dolphins, while also taking control of a police station, finding a lost alien puppy, plotting one final heist, finding the last living dinosaur in the basement, planning a family reunion in a cursed castle, teaming up with a sloth to save mankind, hijacking a limo of wizards, falling in love at least once, with the wrong person and/or in the afterlife, while working on a masterpiece, three years into the Great Space Crusade, probably going to the place where the sidewalk ends, a world without gravity, a town just west of nowhere, and something to do with walking the plank five times.
Yeah. Just slightly complicated.
Ah! My self-imposed dare will be to include every one of these ideas. Somehow. Don’t ask how, the answer will be at least seventy-five pages. I’m doing it on the Young Writer’s site, so I set my goal at seventy-five.
This is going to be fun.
I decided against adapting Annie On My Mind, because it’s already in script format for a play, and given it’s overarching popularity (it was written in the 80’s or 90s and is still in print and recieving new reviews today—don’t worry if you’ve never heard of it, is has a pretty specific audiance) it’s probably a movie somewhere…Instead I’ll make up my own (similar but more up-to-date) plot with slightly younger characters…..
I think I’m going to go with the mass Kokon idea, but I don’t know if it would be better to use it for Script Frenzy or NaNoWriMo. Personally I’m starting to think that it would be easier for me to write it as a novel, since that’s what I have more experience in (I have absolutely zero experience in writing scripts, so…), but the problem is that NaNoWriMo is in November, and by then I will be in high school, and who knows how much time I’ll have to actually write it? What a dilemma. Or maybe I’ll just not do either and write this story over the summer, when I’ll actually have time, hopefully. Bleh. I hate not knowing what to do.
Well, you don’t have to actually be in November to be writing, you know.
I mean, I’m sure that the NaNo program makes it a lot easier to keep track of everything not to mention the fact that if you get into the routine, it’s probably better to stay motivated, but still. And I think a mass Kokon idea would be really cool!
Yeah, I know. It’s just that if I write this idea some other time, I’ll have to think of another idea for NaNoWriMo. I could probably think of one, but..I don’t know. Hmph. Maybe. And also there would be too many characters to make a script feasible, methinks. And yeah, I also think a mass Kokon would be totally awesome!
it starts tomarrow…*rocks back and forth*
So… I’ve started 6 days late and have two pages. Yay me.