Tuesday, 30 April 2024
Life, the universe, pies, hot-pink bunnies, world domination, and everything
Script Frenzy (a.k.a. “Screnzy”) is in full swing. Those who are taking part already know all about it. For those who aren’t,
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.
You can find out more on last month’s Screnzy Brainstorming thread.
Date: April 8, 2010
Categories: Fiction, poetry, and fanfiction, Nonrandom Craziness
Yes, thank you very much GAPAs!
I have ten pages, not that bad considering I started six days late. My script is the pilot episode of a SciFi tv show which will never get taken up but is fun to write.
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I have nineteen pages, and haven’t been doing that much recently.
This is so much easier and quicker than NaNo. So much.
So I’ve been wondering. Am I allowed to only do one script, but register it on both the main and young writer’s sites? I’ve been doing that, but I’m not sure it’s allowed…
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How exactly does one go about formating a documentary? For instance, when you cut to somebody being interviewed, is that a scene change?
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17 pages… Must reach 25 today at least… must write… and more… and more…
The problem is that I’m not sure how long my script is in movie format. In seventeen pages, my characters have already stolen, been shot at, lectured, stranded, jumped off a cliff, repaired a starship, started a starship, blown up a cave and they’re about to be shot at by two opposing superpowers… in short, a classic sci-fi tv series.
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SFTDP:
By “started”, I mean launched. Sort of.
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3- Not really sure. You could probably just write ‘cut to person’s interview’, and worry about proper formatting after April.
I’m at nineteen pages and I need to be at thirty three, ish. I’ve been slacking off and haven’t done anything for days. My pace slowed down once I ran into the Star Wars fanatics. (Currently acting out the scene of the Rebels on Endor in the sixth movie.)
This is going to be a weird, zany, thoroughly random script. I’ll send it to the GAPAs at the end of the month.
I wouldn’t send my NaNo, because I have secret, hopeless dreams of getting it published someday. This, I have no illusions of that happening. None.
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Twenty five pages. Ten pages behind. Recent addiction to a video game NOT HELPING.
And I spent a good fraction of the day visiting with a friend. Which was a much better, and rather more fun use of my time than I would have done. *really needs to stop video game if she wants to finish Screnzy on time*
I actually have a scene now that does nothing but advance the plot. It’s the only one. The other three, or so, are chiefly talking. That took up twenty five pages. Because this scene has absolutely no lines in it. Nothing.
Now I need to transition. To somewhere.
To some interesting place.
Where I can write lots and lots.
I haven’t run into any discouragement yet. It’s quite fun. One quarter done with the script, and I’m not off planet yet. Slightly scary. I’m doing a sci-fi/fantasy script that’s going to several different planets, by the way.
Wrapping up a long, meandering post, off to write or sleep. Haven’t figured out which one yet. Probably write, more tempting. I do need to get to bed though, and soon.
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6 *laughs* Can we swap? Every scene in my script includes blowing something up, a loud argument, or just general action (except one which the evil villain, who resembles Archie in the Chocolate Wars).
I also have 25 pages; trying to write five pages a day from now on minimum.
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Okay, this is a double post, but if you’re going through Screnzy too, you’d understand.
What I wrote yesterday: Nothing.
Today: 1 page.
I’d need 23 pages in two days to make it back on track. I’ve always been bout-of writing girl, but right now I’m suffocating under, oh, mainly french but also geography and I somehow can’t motivate myself to get stuff done. Worse than usual, that is. I’ve just been feeling sucky this entire semester, which reflects in my grades and chocolate consumation (I swear, the bunny ate itself). I even ate Jelly Beans and chewing gum. I hate jelly beans and chewing gum gives me a headache. While my story starts very inspired, from the three characters so far two are simply stereotypical whining teenagers and one, who I always knew was borrowing from Trance Gemini in Andromeda, is (as I discovered) Trance Gemini only not purple. Great. So far, the plot is: the whining teenagers argue, people shoot at them. That’s it. And I’m going to get lynched if I don’t get my french grades up. With a C on the test (okay, the average was D- , no As and two Bs so give me a break for once!) and …varying levels of abominable homework, the best I can get is B which isn’t good enough. And my self confidence is so shot that I can’t make myself sit down and write the stupid analyse du discours de l’avocat (it’s abominably boring). So I’m ranting here instead of doing either homework. And people are asking me what I want for my birthday. I want my life to work out. I want to be able to sit myself down again and write 10k words in a day. I want to be able to run 4 km in under 20 minutes again. I’m training running and I’m sitting down to write again. I even have less subjects than before; less obligations but it feels like more. I’ve always been a little depressed now and then, but I used to be able to snap out of it. Now I feel I don’t have the will to do anything well and most things not at all. With a warmup, it took me a half and hour with a big break in between when I just didn’t have the willpower to keep running. What is wrong with me?
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Thirty pages. Need to be at, like, forty-three or something. Ugh. Ugh. Ugh.
Running out of motivation. All my scenes feel like pointless exercises, repeating what’s gone before. One of my characters is concealing something from the other two, and another remarkably canny character has pretty much guessed it and is trying as hard as he can to convince MC1 to confess it, while MC1 denies it . Then MC1 tried very hard to leave, and MC2 and MC3 tried very hard to make MC1 stay, and I finally resolved both problems with a bit of reason, so now I’m sitting down and divulging the secret, which is indeed true.
Complicated. And rather boring. Like Waiting for Godot, only different. Circles. Pointless, endless, pointless, circles. Character development, circles, arguments, circles, pointless.
Still need to get to fun places where they can do all sorts of fun things. For seventy five pages.
I decided I’m doing the full main thing, and forgetting about the YWP. Which means I’m highly behind.
Off to write. Never mind, being called to school. That’s the other annoyance. Didn’t get any writing done yesterday, because I was at my father’s office doing school, because I didn’t concentrate Monday.
Ahgh.
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To look at the positive side, I think we’ve hit the so-called phase of doubt and despair.
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I had my computer confiscated for days and couldn’t write and I was already behind and ugh ugh ugh.
And when I explained what I was doing in hopes Mom’d give my computer back she said something like ‘It’s not appropriate for you to be setting that kind of goal right now’, or something. UGH!
And now I’m supposed to be doing school. Arugh. Aurgh. Arugh. Cake. Cake.
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I’m giving up. I love my Script, but I was too unprepared and I now know that I LOATHE formatting from the bottom of my heart. I hate celitx too.
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No! Don’t give up!
….Well, I can’t really tell you that. I’m fighting a stalemated battle against myself, one half of me wanting to give up, one quarter, (or so) saying ‘You can’t!’ and the last quarter just telling me to not officially give up, but just not to do anything.
Anyway, I decided to skip celtex this year, and I’m just writing my script in text edit. With semi-proper formatting.
I seriously think that if formatting’s restraining you, just stop worrying about it.
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How did everyone do?
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