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The people who brought us NaNoWriMo ten years ago, brought us Script Frenzy! in 2007 (I'm still waiting for the abreviation "skrenzy" to reach critical mass, because it's so much fun to say).
That first year, they had it in June, and I started thinking about it and vaguely planning ahead in May. That year, I tried my hand at a screenplay, and reached the word/page goal on time, but was still mired down in the middle of the plot at the end of the month...
This year, they moved it to April, and I wasn't emotionally ready -- it wasn't the right season at all. At first, I thought I wouldn't even try it again, because I just wasn't in the mood.
But then, on March 31st, I decided I didn't want to be left entirely out of the party, so I thought I'd try my hand at a stage play.
Well! trying to write a play with no idea in your head before you start, much less no planning, is a bit like trying to clean spilled Jello off the floor with a pair of tweezers and a toothbrush: Messy, and exhausting, and not all that much fun, even though you're working with something that should be fun...
Well, it's summer again, and my brain is telling me: "C'mon! It's Skrenzy Time!" (I know it's July, not June. But I was preoccupied, in June, with getting ready for the Art Garden [another thing which changed its season, this year]) and my brain is just catching up (like the tail end of the slinky dog in Toy Story).
So here's my question: is it too early to start planning ahead for April? I'm not allowed to actually start writing the script until Midnight-o-one, April 1st, but I can start doodling around with outlines and character sketches and the like, anytime. I don't want to be bored with it when April hits, but I also want to be have something that I will actually finish and think is moderately okay in May.
And I want to try my hand at a stageplay, again, since this last year was not a real attempt at all.
So here's yet another poll:
[Poll #1218233]
*Yes, I know that it's a foolhardy assumption to think that the sonnets are actually auto-biographical, but Shakespeare did choose to write the narrator/speaker as a first-person character named Will. So it's fair to assume that's how he wanted to be remembered, even if he is an unreliable narrator.
**Actually, based on the dream I posted about here. Don't know how to show the passage of years in a stage play, but having adult selves hovering over their child selves could make for ...interesting theater.
***I wrote an original fairy tale based on Hans, years ago. But the only copy I have now is in a defunct computer sitting on the floor of my office closet.
That first year, they had it in June, and I started thinking about it and vaguely planning ahead in May. That year, I tried my hand at a screenplay, and reached the word/page goal on time, but was still mired down in the middle of the plot at the end of the month...
This year, they moved it to April, and I wasn't emotionally ready -- it wasn't the right season at all. At first, I thought I wouldn't even try it again, because I just wasn't in the mood.
But then, on March 31st, I decided I didn't want to be left entirely out of the party, so I thought I'd try my hand at a stage play.
Well! trying to write a play with no idea in your head before you start, much less no planning, is a bit like trying to clean spilled Jello off the floor with a pair of tweezers and a toothbrush: Messy, and exhausting, and not all that much fun, even though you're working with something that should be fun...
Well, it's summer again, and my brain is telling me: "C'mon! It's Skrenzy Time!" (I know it's July, not June. But I was preoccupied, in June, with getting ready for the Art Garden [another thing which changed its season, this year]) and my brain is just catching up (like the tail end of the slinky dog in Toy Story).
So here's my question: is it too early to start planning ahead for April? I'm not allowed to actually start writing the script until Midnight-o-one, April 1st, but I can start doodling around with outlines and character sketches and the like, anytime. I don't want to be bored with it when April hits, but I also want to be have something that I will actually finish and think is moderately okay in May.
And I want to try my hand at a stageplay, again, since this last year was not a real attempt at all.
So here's yet another poll:
[Poll #1218233]
*Yes, I know that it's a foolhardy assumption to think that the sonnets are actually auto-biographical, but Shakespeare did choose to write the narrator/speaker as a first-person character named Will. So it's fair to assume that's how he wanted to be remembered, even if he is an unreliable narrator.
**Actually, based on the dream I posted about here. Don't know how to show the passage of years in a stage play, but having adult selves hovering over their child selves could make for ...interesting theater.
***I wrote an original fairy tale based on Hans, years ago. But the only copy I have now is in a defunct computer sitting on the floor of my office closet.
