After we got the kids in bed and the chores done, I sat down last night and knocked out three and a half pages of a screenplay. Why? ScriptFrenzy. Write a 100 page script in a month. Sort of like the National Novel Writing Month (NANOWRIMO) challenge. My buddy Jay mentioned this to me a few weeks back and something really caught my attention. Maybe it’s that with how busy I am between work, family, music, running, I’ve let my fiction writing be relegated to place where I think about it a lot more than I do it. Adding to the appeal is the specific time frame of the challenge, the fact that a script is different than a novel (cross training for writing muscles?), and that I can do my pages in about 30 minutes a night, which means it will be easy to squeeze in by dropping end-of-night veg time in front of the television and won’t cut into other obligations. I’m using some free Web-based script writing software (http://scripped.com) for the formatting. A few bugs when tabbiong between elements for auto formatting, but still a huge time saver over trying to format manually in Word. I recommend checking it out. And we’re off. See you in a month — with a finished first draft of a screenplay, I hope.
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