Script Frenzy Aftermath
Well, I made it to my Script Frenzy goal of 100 pages over the weekend, with a whole week to spare. The script at that point wasn’t quite finished, though, so I spent the last few days working on that final scene and uploaded my script for verification today.
Script Frenzy was an interesting challenge and one I’ll definitely look forward to facing again next year. As someone who writes almost entirely narrative prose, it was a bit difficult to adapt my normal writing style to drama.
I found that while writing I tended to focus more on the visual settings and the actions of my characters and not on the internal. With a dramatic script you are forced, as it were, to obey the old writing rule of “show, don’t tell” in the strictest sense possible.
The mechanics of formatting the thing turned out to be less of an issue than I thought, mostly due to the fact that Scripped made all of that so completely simple, even for someone so unfamiliar with the form. All I had to do was select from a menu whether I was writing action, dialogue, a scene heading, etc.
Now it’s just a matter of getting my script through my initial proofreading and then sending it out to beta readers. Sometime in the next few months I hope to have it up in my writing portfolio here.
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