Screnzy…Abort? (Suicide)

First day in I realized I was in trouble. >.<

See, for this year’s screnzy, I decided to do something totally different, new, and exciting as an experiment to explore where I’d never gone before.

…ooooh this was not one experiment I was ready for.

See, I decided to write a graphic novel script.

Problem.

I’ve read two graphic novel series.  Just two.  I don’t actually read them that often.  It’s more for “when I’m bored eye candy” and “if there are some really, really cool characters I absolutely HAVE to read”.  So, I’m not exposed to them that often, which means…

I don’t think in panels!  I realized this quickly.  I think not so much in ideas and words, but in moving images.  Like a movie.  How hard is it for me to convert moving images into comic panels?  Extremely… apparently.

So my mind is screaming — ABORT, ABORT!

Do I abort?

…no.

I said I would screnzy, therefore I will screnzy!

“But you have school.” …yes…

“You have testing to do.” …ok that too…

“You’ve signed up for a lot of volunteer work!” …True…

“When are you going to find the hours to learn this format and do 100 pages in thirty days??” …I’m…I’m not.

So, today, I do something almost as crazy as trying to do a comic book script.

I’m starting over to page one.

…but this time it’s going to be a film script like last year.  That, my friends, I can do.

Potential screnzy suicide?  You bet.

~Yarrow

Script Frenzy – April’s Madness

100 pages of script.  30 days.

Absolute madness.

But so is the NaNoWriMo, and that didn’t stop us, now did it?

In the winter time we decide to voluntarily lose our minds to the NaNo, 30 days to write a 50,000 word long novel.  Now, during the spring time we voluntarily lose our minds over Script Frenzy, or Screnzy, for short.

What is Screnzy?  The NaNo equivalent for script writers.  We have 30 days to write 100 pages of script.  Screenplays, stage plays, TV scripts, and comic book scripts.  Any script.  It’s time to write visual media.

It has a similar surge of madness as the NaNoWriMo, but it has one hitch.  Weird, ridiculous formats.  If someone wants to try writing a script, they are often stopped by the intimidatingly foreign  concept of these formats.  It’s not really quite the same as rushing head long into a novel.  Scripts rear an uglier head called format in an attempt to frighten us away.

I say to hell with it.

Format — all it takes is a read over the formatting tips offered on the Screnzy site here.  Once this is read you can refer to it all you want.  If it’s not perfect formatting FIX IT LATER.  We don’t have time to be perfectionists!  We have 30 days, people!  If you want to do this thing, do this thing!

The time is now and today.  Onward, my Screnzy friends.  We will show the world bravery, or at least a new level of madness.  Write that movie you’ve always wanted to see.  Write that play.  Write that TV series.  Write that comic book, darn it.

Now, why are you still reading this?  Start writing!  The clock is a-ticking!

~Yarrow