I've always thought of myself as a novel writer. Somehow, I never got the hang of short stories. Poetry, while fun to read, never appealed to me as a writer. No, I was a novel writer. Didn't I complete NaNoWriMo last year?
Well, that was before the discovery of another month long writing challenge. Script Frenzy. Run by the same people as NaNoWriMo, Script Frenzy's challenge is to write a 100 page script in one month. It can be any kind of script, from TV series to stage play.
The inner writer in the Elvis girls rose. How could we pass up on a challenge like this one? No, we simply had to sign up. Of course, none of us had ever even considered writing a script before, but that simply wasn't relevant.
That same afternoon, we had decided on what kinds of scripts we were going to write. All of us decided to write scripts for stage plays. But the genres were highly varied.
Charlotte and I chose to team write a musical. We have high visions of it turning out to be a work of art, something to rival Gilbert and Sullivan's famous operettas. Not that we had even the slightest idea of how one worked, or even if we'd ever manage to write music for it.
Sophie decided on a romance, a surprising choice. She struggled to choose whether to have a death or two in it, or not.
Gemma-Rose is adamant she is going to write a tragedy 'like Shakespeare.' Everyone has to die according to her, even though we try to persuade her you need one character left to say the epilogue. She wanders around, notebook in hand, collecting interesting ways to die.
Three totally different genres, and we haven't even worked out what our plays are going to be about. Something humorous for the musical I think. Maybe some mistaken identities, and paradoxes. We've got a big book of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas to gather inspiration from.
Come April the first we'll be sitting down at our computers, new documents open, ready to start on out newest challenge.
Is anyone else doing Script Frenzy this year? Has anyone done it in the past? Got any good advice for four novices?
I'm hopeing to do it!!
ReplyDeleteLove Sararose xox
What kind of script do you want to write Sararose? And how many pages? Sophie's going to do 15 I think, and Gemma-Rose 5. At least to start with.
DeleteFun idea! I've never written a script before. I like that you all chose different genres, some out of your comfort zone. It will make for an adventure!
ReplyDeleteIt definitely feels like an adventure. I can hardly wait for April to start so we can get writing. It'll be so much fun to try something completely different.
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