Script Frenzy

[Sannit]

Anybody here gonna do Script Frenzy?  I've never actually written a script before, so I'm taking this opportunity to suck hard, and enjoy it.  Maybe some of my fellow repeat-failures-at-NaNoWriMo would be interested by this, and I know Ruskin likes his scripties - come join me and we'll show those guys what Cojawfeeites can do!

For the uninitiated: the month of April starts next Thursday.  From 12:00:01 to midnight on the 30th, you are to write a 100-page-long script from scratch (notes, outlines, etc are acceptable, however).  Stage, film, comic book, whatever!   Just write three-and-one-third pages a day every day throughout April, and you win Script Frenzy!  Prizes include special recognition by the esteemed Office of Letters and Light (the sponsoring company), a first draft of your very own script, and a feeling of tremendous personal growth (actual personal growth not necessarily included).

Come on!  Let's do it!

[Grakelin]

I'm interested, but I'm a bit worried that the creators don't know how long a script is supposed to be. I've read at least ten or so plays in the past year that are all around 2-3 hours long, and they never go beyond 50 pages. For the long ones.

It might have been better off being called the "Screenplay Frenzy", because screenplays are heavier on controlling stage direction.

[Sannit]

That was my thought as well, but one of the creators is a professional person-who-does-script-related-stuff, so....yeah.

[Grakelin]

He must not be doing plays, because my edition of 'The Complete Works of William Shakespeare' features an 88 page Hamlet (44 pages if you don't count the double print columns as two pages each).

[Gagootsi]

I'm undecided. I'm writing a comic about my work and all my fellow coworkers actually and have been for several months (coming out in monthly issues). Right now they've brought in an ex-guard who is now a sheriff to investigate my death, and my site supervisor got framed for the crime and is on the run from the cops, but the investigation continually is getting derailed by skateboarders destroying our property with rocket launchers and swords, and currently the rest of the guards are fending off an ancient poo vampire who is only kept at bay by the security guards' timely responses to alarms. If an alarm is not responded to immediately, the poo vampire will emerge from his toilet crypt and either kill you or drain you of all.... yeah.

So yeah I'm pretty busy in my down time at work, and that's the only time I can see myself seriously sitting down to do something like this.

[Ruskin]

wish i'd checked this out sooner than halfway through the month. I'd be interested, but I'm not about to start writing 6 pages of script a day on top of my job and getting my senior show ready and whatever other bullshit bureaucratic paperwork I'll have to do to graduate.

maybe next year.