Green Minded Wallet

Today is the start of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)! I participated last year and am really looked forward to banging out a novel again this month. Today is actually an extremely busy day for me, but hopefully I’ll be able to get in some writing just the same. If you’re interested in signing up it’s not too late. Just head over to nanowrimo.org and get started, it doesn’t cost a thing and you can have novel writing bragging rights for the rest of your life. Aww yeah.

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If you’re interested in writing a screenplay or stageplay during the month of June then head on over to ScriptFrenzy.org. It’s totally free and it’s going to be a lot of fun, what have you got to lose? For more info see my original post here. Have fun.

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The organizers of National Novel Writing Month are hosting a ScriptFrenzy in June. All you have to do is (attempt to) write a 20,000 word screenplay. Simple, no? It’s free to sign-up (though donations are accepted) and you’ll have access to an amazing online community who will be happy to help you through it. You don’t even need to have internet access to write your novel, just to verify your word count from time to time. So if you’re looking for something to do, hop on over there. It’ll keep you busy, won’t cost you money, and you’ll have lifelong bragging rights. What more could you ask for? And if you’re hesitant to go it alone, you can pester some of your broke friends to sign-up, or badger someone you know into writing a screenplay with you.

Here are the basic rules (from ScriptFrenzy.org):

1) To be crowned an official Script Frenzy winner, you must write a script of at least 20,000 words and verify this word count on ScriptFrenzy.org.

2) You may write individually or in teams of two. Writer teams will have a 20,000 total word goal for their single co-written script.

3) Script writing may begin no earlier than 12:00:01 AM on June 1 and must cease no later than 11:59:59 PM on June 30, local time.

4) You may write either a screenplay or a stage play.

5) You must, at some point, have ridiculous amounts of fun.

Some of the highlights (from my experience):

• You can add other writers as your friends and praise (or taunt them) as their word counts progress.

• Word Wars: these are short writing sprints that you do with others, they’re great for writing really poorly really quickly, which is half the fun.

• Dares: add a random suggestion to your play if your looking for inspiration (you would be surprised how 15 chickens can come in handy. Seriously.)

And yes, it’s completely free. I did National Novel Writing Month last year and it was a blast. While this is the first year of ScriptFrenzy, I have no doubt that it will be just as much fun. Now’s a great time to get your ideas together and connect with others.

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