Something Knitty

I have 52.5 pages on my script!! Yay!! More than halfway. Ok, I know I set out to do 30 this weekend and only came up with 12 (and a half!), but I'm counting this as good forward progress and refuse to dwell on 17.5 pages I wish I'd done.

There are ten days and 47.5 pages left. That requires a completely doable average of 4.75 pages per day. I am going to finish this crazy little story.

In other news, that stupid virus just won't take a hint. I tried to be gracious and let him be the one to leave rather than humiliating him with a messy breakup. But dude won't get out. Virus is really freakin happy clogging up my left ear. Virus needs to find pseudo-life in some other body. Just not anyone in this family. Or anyone else I know. Perhaps some stranger. Or someone I don't like. Yeah, that's it.

Next time: The raid on the Texas polygamists is really weird.

This virus and I are celebrating our eighth day together. Ah, and what a time we've had. Gosh, it seems like only last week we were having that first little tingle of excitement, a tickle in my nose, then the flash of a blinding headache. And then how time flew as we worked our way through the snot, choosing our favorite kleenexes, deciding on a drug regimen.

But I'm worried that the virus is starting to lose interest. The fire has really gone out of things.

And what will I do when the virus is gone? Oh, my, what will I do???

Oh wait. I know what I'll do.

Breathe through both nostrils at the same time! Hear clearly with both ears!! Not fall asleep when I sit still for three seconds!! WRITE.

Ahem. Sorry. I got a little carried away there.

But yes, the plan here is to write this weekend. I have 40 pages done on the script. I have a 30-page goal for this weekend. Who's with me? You over there in California maybe? How about you, yes, you, up in British Columbia? Yes, you know you want to. Ok, maybe not 30 pages. How about a fresh blog? Free-writing for 20 minutes? A grocery list?

I have a cold in my nose and 33 pages in my script.

Zooooommmmm!

their rockers.

Four pages on day 1.

Tomorrow begins the second annual ScriptFrenzy. This is related to November's National Novel Writing Month, by the Office of Letters and Light, but for scripty things rather than novels.

I wrote my very first screenplay during last year's Frenzy, and it was a blast. I learned so much about my writing style, about constructing dialogue, about ways to organize and visualize a story.

I've drafted three novels as well, but my first ScriptFrenzy is easily my favorite piece of writing.

If you have any sort of writing inclination whatsoever, you should check it out. Even if you don't have any writing inclination, go check it out. Recommend that your friends and siblings check it out. Ileana, tell Patrick to check it out. ;) Make a donation while you're there to support their young writer's program, which provides curriculum and instruction ideas to put writing into the classroom for students of all ages.

This year, they've opened up the possibilities to include comic book scripts, radioplays, television scripts, and shorts. The goal is to write 100 formatted script pages during the month of April. That's just 3.3 pages per day.

You could do that.

Seriously.

Give it a try. I'm "eglentyne" over there too if you want to add me to your writing buddies.