Script Frenzy 08

Well, I'm done.

2008-04-30T04:37:00.000-07:00

It's a very hollow sort of victory. Yes, I've written 100 pages of script, but most of them weren't worth the effort. But I did manage to write all 100 pages in two days. That's certainly noteworthy. But I don't know.

Day Twenty-Nine Total: 45 pages

2008-04-29T08:11:00.003-07:00

It's been two weeks, and I actually seriously, honestly haven't written anything since whenever it was that I last blogged.

Actually, wait, I did. But I didn't type it up, so I didn't bother to count it.

Anyway, since then I have completely, 100% started over again... this afternoon... well, yesterday afternoon. And I am ridiculously pleased with how well it's gone.

I'm actually at 50 pages (my goal before sleeping was to get to 48, but I was on a bit of a roll... I added an unexpected scene and I really like the way it's turned out), which I got to after midnight. I'm not even sure how many I wrote yesterday, but that's probably an underestimate.

I'm guessing that tomorrow, on the last day of the Frenzy, it's going to be a lot harder to crank out the last fifty. In the previous fifty, I'd really thought out most of it because this second plot started out as a story (that I began writing in between quitting the last script, and starting this one). And where I've stopped is pretty much where I got up to in writing it. I mean, it was good that I was able to steal bits of script which meant that it was less thinking and more typing and therefore higher page count and easier to complete.

Oh well, it still doesn't change the fact that I've written nearly ten thousand words in a day, even if I'd thought them previously.

I am so psyched, maybe I won't go to bed just yet. Maybe I'll write a bit more... then again, it's probably better to quit in the middle of a roll so that I'll be able to pick it up easier when I start again tomorrow...

Nah, I'm going to type. Stuff everything else. =D

Gah...

2008-04-14T05:41:00.000-07:00

I'm really off and out of it lately. And I don't think that's going to change any time soon. I just... need an outlet. And I'm trying to find one and I'm not really succeeding... The most satisfying thing at this moment in time will probably be to smash the keyboard. So here goes:

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...no, I don't really feel any better...

I've written nothing the past few days.

2008-04-13T07:47:00.002-07:00

I'm considering scrapping my script and starting afresh, but that's so much work and I can't be bothered.

I think it's Sophomore Screnzy Syndrome. You think it's easy the second time around because you did so well the first time. But I got through my second year of NaNo just fine, so I think I'll be okay. If nothing else, I'll see if I can accomplish my only-in-my-dreams goal of writing a script in two days... after all, it's not over until it's over, and if I'm still nowhere near finished on the 29th, I'm just going to have to.

Day Eight Total: 33 pages

2008-04-08T21:52:00.001-07:00

Le sigh. I am slowing down greatly.

Day Seven Total: 30 pages

2008-04-07T18:38:00.003-07:00

Yes. You read that correctly. I did not write a single word yesterday.

Day Six Total: 30 pages

2008-04-06T18:26:00.001-07:00

I was very surprised to discover that I'd written five more pages. Time passes, pages get written and yet, I don't notice.

Day Five Total: 25 pages

2008-04-05T22:31:00.002-07:00

I'm falling into a rut and I've barely started. Probably because the beginning is boring.

Day Four Total: 21 pages

2008-04-05T22:31:00.001-07:00

I think... Since I forgot to keep track of it, I'm only estimating.

Day Three Total: 17 Pages

2008-04-04T01:33:00.000-07:00

It was an okay writing day.

Day Two Total: 12 Pages

2008-04-02T17:05:00.003-07:00

So, 3 pages more than the day before, and still a little ahead.

Today I'm going to have to work to keep my count up.

Day One Total: 9 pages

2008-04-01T18:26:00.000-07:00

Well, it was more than nine pages, but not quite ten. So of course I'm rounding down... which begs the question, does the last not-quite-whole page count?

I look forward to later in the month when I can get my script verified.

Four pages in and my fingers are already cramping

2008-03-31T17:29:00.000-07:00

Seriously. It's way too cold. I need to like, warm up and stretch before I start typing stuff.

Oh yeah, and it's Day one of the Screnzy and I am off to a flying start. I am already past today's quota.

Character List

2008-03-31T16:50:00.000-07:00

JOHN DiMARCO
The main male character.

ANALIESE BELL
The main female character.

MARY-ANN MOORE
Analiese's pen name.

MARIA MORTON
Analiese's co-worker and the girl who ends up going out with John.

IAN PRICE
John's best friend who also works at the same place

SAMANTHA PRICE
Ian's wife

JERRY PHELPS
John's boss.

MELISSA JACOBS
Analiese's best friend

TONY LENTINI
Analiese's gay friend

DEBBIE STEVENS
Co-worker of Analiese and Maria's. Her desk is beside Maria's.

PHILLIP COLE
Debbie's fiance.

MARGIE SIMMONS
One of John's co-workers.

CEDRIC PARKER
Another of John's co-workers

FELICE BAKER
One of Samantha's friends, was present at the first dinner party

SAUL FIELD
One of Ian's friends, also present at the first dinner party

ROWENA FIELD
Saul's wife, also present at the first dinner party

CLAIRE
John's younger cousin. Maybe sixteen years younger.

ANALIESE'S CONQUESTS
Pablo

A poster

2008-03-30T22:31:00.000-07:00

So... I made a poster, using this nifty site: http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/poster.php that someone on the Script Frenzy forums suggested. It is awesome. Poster not so awesome, but you can't expect too much from me.

Oh yeah, and in creating this poster, I also thought about an awesome title. Typeset. Because it's a guy who's a programmer, so he types a lot, and a girl who's a journalist so she types a lot. Not to mention the guy is always judging books by their covers which is like setting a type before he does it. And the journalist has that whole actual typesetting thing going on. 'Twas a brilliant one.

The Heroine: Drawn

2008-03-30T21:59:00.001-07:00

So here's the other half. Mouth sucks of course. I quite like the colour of her hair, though. She looks a little nuts but I guess that suits her.

First Logline

2008-03-30T19:12:00.000-07:00

Last year, I wrote a logline. But since the website doesn't save them, I no longer know what it is. So, to save myself from that this year, here's my logline:

When a judgmental computer programmer finally meets the author of his favourite newspaper column, he discovers that not everyone is exactly what they seem.

I don't like it all that much, but it's version one.

The Hero: Drawn

2008-03-30T19:04:00.000-07:00

So, as usual the man turns out a bit funny looking because I cannot draw lips or noses. I like his suit, though. Lol.

Plotting along...

2008-03-29T23:39:00.000-07:00

I've got pretty much the entire plot out, with the help of my trusty year ten notes on how to study film. See, you should never throw stuff out!

If only could figure out what the little climax in act two is supposed to be. Then my plan would be perfect... and then I'd write out scenes. But I might not bother with that since I've written so much already. Got to save something for April!

First look at main characters

2008-03-27T06:17:00.000-07:00

I've been on a bit of a Sims kick lately, so it was only fitting that I designed the original characters in the Sims. I'll probably do my random drawings that I usually do later. But I might base them more closely on my Sim models.

So, above is my as yet unnamed heroine. She's not going to be put into a box. Because although she might look a little like a hippie right now,

And this is the hero of the romance, looking kind of wimpy and confused. Nothing ever goes the way I want it when it's not typed.

Anyway, that's your first look. Just step one in their character development.

So the Screnzy starts soon...

2008-03-27T03:50:00.000-07:00

I think I almost have some semblance of a plot. A concept at least, anyway. I haven't really been thinking about Screnzy, but I'm not going to go in without at least some shallow concept.

Taking it from my little ideas notebook:

He liked to read the crap articles in the newspaper. The columns that most people ignored. He liked to imagine that on the other side, the person was beautiful, because that was the only way they'd continue... and then he met her.

Why yes, that is crap English. But that's how stuff comes out in my notebook. Sometimes I have no idea what I meant when I read it back. At least I know what that means even if you might not.

So yeah, I'll probably write another movie about that guy who reads the newspaper. What happens after that, I have no idea. But this should totally be a romantic comedy... which is a kind of movie that I like to watch, but am probably going to be terrible at writing since I cannot write romance or humour. So we'll see how it goes. =)

It is time... for a new blog!

2008-03-12T18:44:00.001-07:00

I love blogs. I love Blogger because it enables me to blog.

I really should just use the same blog. But it wouldn't be the start of a month-long writing extravaganza if I didn't have to create a new theme each time.

I have no plot ideas or anything, but I will.