{"id":908,"date":"2012-04-01T12:00:03","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T16:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/?p=908"},"modified":"2015-08-27T10:35:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-27T14:35:00","slug":"script-frenzy-for-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/archive\/2012\/04\/01\/script-frenzy-for-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Script Frenzy for April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago, I <a href=\"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/archive\/2007\/11\/30\/winning-the-national-novel-writing-month-challenge\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">completed the National Novel Writing Month challenge<\/a>, writing 50,000 words in the month of November. (I ended up with about 60,000 words then stalled with my characters in a place I didn't care about.) Well, <strong><a title=\"National Novel Writing Month\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nanowrimo.org\/\">NaNoWriMo<\/a><\/strong> has a spin-off project called <strong><a title=\"Script Frenzy Home\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scriptfrenzy.org\/\">Script Frenzy<\/a><\/strong>. The challenge is to write a 100 page script in the month of April.<\/p>\n<p>Well I love movies, and I have an idea kicking around that touches on a number of topics dear to me along with some interesting personal anecdotes I always thought would make a good movie, so I decided to take up the challenge and write a screenplay. You can track my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scriptfrenzy.org\/eng\/user\/172217\">Author's Page<\/a> here to see how I'm doing &mdash; I got about 4 pages done today so that's pretty good. I'd much rather start out ahead of the curve (for <em>teh math-challenged<\/em>, I need to average 3 1\/3 pages a day to succeed.)<\/p>\n<p>I won't give too much away until I get something more concrete in place, but suffice it to say it's a modern cross-country road trip that'll require the venerable CB radio.<\/p>\n<p>What I learned from my <strong><a title=\"National Novel Writing Month\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nanowrimo.org\/\">NaNoWriMo<\/a><\/strong> experience was that I really needed to keep tabs on my characters since halfway through I couldn't tell one minor character from another. I also felt like that was a freshman effort that can safely be hidden away forever. I don't think it's bad, per se, but it probably has more to do with personal therapy than anything worthwhile to read.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully I'll see this one through and make something of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago, I completed the National Novel Writing Month challenge, writing 50,000 words in the month of November. (I ended up with about 60,000 words then stalled with my characters in a place I didn't care about.) Well, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/archive\/2012\/04\/01\/script-frenzy-for-april\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,611,21,45],"tags":[270,2889,60,2021,2020],"class_list":["post-908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-entries","category-for-the-parents","category-movies","category-nanowrimo","tag-cb","tag-movies","tag-national-novel-writing-month","tag-screenplay","tag-script-frenzy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5411,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions\/5411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}