Friday 14 May 2010

Oh, lookie, it's mid-May!

April has come and gone in a whirl of script-writing, event-organising and mild swearing. I have tried to be a good ML and I think on some level I achieved that, although motivation strongly lagged after I started finding myself alone at write-ins. Script Frenzy was pretty cool, but it's not as popular as NaNoWriMo and its participants tend to be more of the online type, I think. If only because the fact that there even were MLs for London this year wasn't so widely known.

I'm proud to say that I have won Script Frenzy, with the 100-page mark reached on Friday the 30th around 9pm. I swear one year I'll win before the late evening on the last day. I wrote an adaptation of a romance novel I'd started for JulNoWriMo last year and it went pretty well. It's actually the closest I've come yet to finishing any story, but it's not finished yet, of course. The young padawan, much learning yet to process has. I also had fun with the format although it was a bit difficult to get to grips with it at first. I'm sure I went a bit OTT on visual gimmicks, montages and symbolic things, but I feel like I learnt at least a bit. So that was good.

Now, tell me about your month of April, people. Did you try your hand at Script Frenzy? If so, did you like it or not? Did you find script-writing to be just the thing for you? Or just the thing to avoid? Will you be taking part again next year? Will you give it a try if you haven't yet?

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