{"id":926,"date":"2012-04-28T18:43:33","date_gmt":"2012-04-28T22:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/?p=926"},"modified":"2012-04-30T12:00:49","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T16:00:49","slug":"script-frenzy-ftw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/archive\/2012\/04\/28\/script-frenzy-ftw\/","title":{"rendered":"Script Frenzy: FTW"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the beginning of April<\/a> I wrote that I was starting Script Frenzy<\/a><\/strong>: a challenge to write a 100 page script in the month of April. Well the month is almost over, and — as you can see on Author's Page<\/a> — I did indeed complete the task. Officially, I completed 103 pages (although it ended up a little longer when I tweaked the formatting.)<\/p>\n

The story flowed pretty easily, and I had no problem sticking to my original \"plan\". In fact, I really didn't do much coercion (except for introducing the plausible-but-a-little-hokey cell-phone failure.) For the most part, the story just moved along of its own accord.<\/p>\n

I re-read most of it and it seems pretty good. I did notice a few typos (like when Bob the waiter just drives off in their car, apparently) and sometimes I'd introduce a character or a place and a couple pages later the name would inexplicably change. But I noticed that the things I cringed at when I was writing — just to keep the flow going — don't seem nearly as out-of-place and absurd as I thought.<\/p>\n

Not to brag too much, but I was impressed at the multi-faceted story arc, like the way the scenery changes with the organic changes in the characters. That was kind of a surprise.<\/p>\n

I mentioned in the post introducing this<\/a> that one of the things I learned from my NaNoWriMo<\/a><\/strong> experience was that I really needed to keep tabs on my characters. I made a separate document with the names of characters and any things I said about them, or about their past. It helped a lot. Plus, I only had two central characters, so keeping track of them was much easier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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