script frenzy

[miriam_e]

Yep, that spin-off from the NaNoWriMo madness, Script Frenzy, starts in two weeks. The challenge is 100 pages in 30 days. That's just 3.3 pages per day; a much more leisurely pace than NaNoWriMo, though probably still hard to reach. Scripts are a whole other kind of writing. Re-reading aloud is pretty-much required, and conveying as much as possible with minimum words is very important. It is almost impossible to tell what is going through another's mind without voice-over (which is a bit like cheating) so the writer is forced to show rather than tell -- a useful discipline.

Will I participate? Am I an idiot with masochistic tendencies? I guess we'll find out soon...

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[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

...might leave the country for awhile in April.

Visiting USA? Europe? I thought you'd be starting at Carleton Uni in Ottawa soon... or have I got that mixed up?

Any links to plays you've written? I'd love to read them and would be delighted to provide constructive feedback.

I hope you can make it as a writer. That would, in so many ways, be the dream occupation.

I'd love to, but am frankly not good enough. If I keep trying maybe I can improve to the point I can earn some little at it, but I'd probably be better off sticking with artwork and programming. [sigh]

[sharpblonde.livejournal.com]

My program starts in May, so I'm trying to arrange a trip first. I'm hoping Germany, but maybe North Carolina or Newfoundland if that won't work... It depends on the people I could potentially stay with.

I don't post much of my writing online and I haven't written a play since grade 9 which is why I feel I need a refresher... that's, OMG, 12 years ago... I would have had to be a serious geek to have been posting stuff back then. Which I'm not, although I enjoy serious geeks when they can converse in regular English rather than lingo. Poetry is what I am most successful at so far, which is unfortunate in one sense since it is probably the LEAST likely to pay the bills. Anyway, here's my one published poem (I mean other than me posting on a blog or something...) if you are interested http://www.bywords.ca/july2008/index.php?p=1 . The play experience was being forced to be in them in elementary school on a semi-regular basis, which at least gives me an idea of how things really could be arranged on stage...

I'd probably be better off sticking with something else. Hell, pretty much every author except perhaps J.K. Rowling and Nora Roberts probably would be, but I want to give it a go and work part-time in the publishing industry before moving on to be a writer/literary agent. That's why I chose English, of all things.

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry to say I'm not a big reader (or writer) of poetry, so I'm utterly unqualified to comment on it other than to say it prodded interesting images from my brain.

I think I've only got 2 examples up on the web. Neither of them terribly good I'm afraid. In my half century of scribblings and scratchings this is my sum total poetic output... which is probably a good thing. :)
Want (http://spacedoutinc.org/fanzine2002/Want.html)
and The Good Fight (http://spacedoutinc.org/fanzine2002/Defective%20Gene.html#fight) at the end of a short story written by a friend.

Good that you're going to fit in some travel while you can. It gets more difficult later, as the years seem to pour cement into one's shoes. [sigh]