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And That's Two

nobody@vox.com(Smiley) — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 22:39:22 +0900

Finished and verified with 90 minutes left on the clock. Combined with my winning effort in 2004, this makes two books sitting on my hard drive waiting for me to do something with them.

One thing I realized this year, and it was a real D'oh! moment, was that it is much easier to whittle than to inflate. I wrote from a single POV with the intention to hit 50K words from which to carve a 35K - 40K novella.

I think that is much more doable than my previous winning entry which is 60K and needs another 20K added to it, at a minimum. (Which is probably why I have never gone back to it. Too much work.)

Next year, I may aim for a kids' novel. (They usually run between 30K to 40K.)

In the meantime, there's ScriptFrenzy again in June. And hey, I think this post means I made it through NaNoBloMo as well. Although that remains to be verified. Maybe later.

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Script Frenzy 2007 Results

nobody@vox.com(Smiley) — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 01:27:49 +0900

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Yup. Finished my script tonight. All 20,000 plus words of it.

Don't know if it's any good, don't really care. It's done. It can sit in the drawer for a few months until I'm ready to deal with it again.

I think I'm ready to go to bed now.

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I've Got An Idea for a Movie

nobody@vox.com(Smiley) — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 11:23:51 +0900

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Everything's all set up and ready to go for Script Frenzy. I have my profile up and my project created in Celtx. I even have an idea.

Now it's just getting down to tacks and getting it done.

So far, I'm off to a good start. Got the opening scene done this morning and a couple of secondary scenes. I know who my primary and secondary characters are. Yup, it's all set up.

The goal is a 20,000 word screenplay and I'm aiming for 1,000 a day, just in order to give myself plenty of leeway and re-writing time. Of course, I don't think I'll have a perfect, polished screenplay in a month, but I do hope I can churn out a decent rough that I can then polish.

Maybe.

Oh, and the title for this post is stolen directly from the Vandals. Just so you know.

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