Screenwriters of Done Deal, lend me your ears...
Did that grab your attention? Did it?
Okay, so I had this idea, and that's all it is at this moment in time, an idea. This post is just to gauge interest and find out whether there's enough people willing to participate in said idea.
I can hear you all screaming now, "What's the idea?". Don't worry, I'm about to get to it.
Now, I don't know about the rest of you, but there are times when I just don't write, and it's not that I can't write, it's just that I don't want to, and then when I do actually get around to writing, I write SLOW, and I always find things to distract me (Done Deal, Facebook, etc). I'm sure I can't be alone in this. Please tell me I'm not!
It looks like we've missed out on ScriptFrenzy for this year, and I'm not aware of any other similar writing contests that aim at the same thing. So what I'm proposing is that a group of us - no set number, the more the merrier - take part in a little ScriptFrenzy-esque writing exercise. Write a script, from scratch, in 30 days.
At the end of those 30 days all of us will hopefully have something that resembles a 110 (or less, or more) page screenplay. And it probably won't be perfect, but at least you'll be able to pat yourself on the back, congratulate yourself, safe in the knowledge that for one month, you did something productive, instead of just procrastinating. And the exercise will also help with trying to stick to deadlines, something that we'll all have to deal with when we eventually (and I've got faith) get through the seemingly impossible-to-penetrate doors of Hollywood.
So there you have it, that's the idea. Like I said, this is just to gauge interest and gather ideas from people. Let me know what you think.
Did that grab your attention? Did it?
Okay, so I had this idea, and that's all it is at this moment in time, an idea. This post is just to gauge interest and find out whether there's enough people willing to participate in said idea.
I can hear you all screaming now, "What's the idea?". Don't worry, I'm about to get to it.
Now, I don't know about the rest of you, but there are times when I just don't write, and it's not that I can't write, it's just that I don't want to, and then when I do actually get around to writing, I write SLOW, and I always find things to distract me (Done Deal, Facebook, etc). I'm sure I can't be alone in this. Please tell me I'm not!
It looks like we've missed out on ScriptFrenzy for this year, and I'm not aware of any other similar writing contests that aim at the same thing. So what I'm proposing is that a group of us - no set number, the more the merrier - take part in a little ScriptFrenzy-esque writing exercise. Write a script, from scratch, in 30 days.
At the end of those 30 days all of us will hopefully have something that resembles a 110 (or less, or more) page screenplay. And it probably won't be perfect, but at least you'll be able to pat yourself on the back, congratulate yourself, safe in the knowledge that for one month, you did something productive, instead of just procrastinating. And the exercise will also help with trying to stick to deadlines, something that we'll all have to deal with when we eventually (and I've got faith) get through the seemingly impossible-to-penetrate doors of Hollywood.
So there you have it, that's the idea. Like I said, this is just to gauge interest and gather ideas from people. Let me know what you think.
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