alkaline-kiwi's blog

Well I was a bad writer and didn't even touch my script yesterday though I did make a few notes about characters and where I wanted the story to go.

I have been thinking about the reasons why I have been struggling so much with writing a script and I have come to the conclusion that maybe it isn't script writing that I am struggling with but this script in particular.

One of the reasons is that I can't just fly through it like I did with NaNoWriMo, writing anything that came to mind. Of course with my NaNoWriMo project I did a bit more planning and had an idea of where things were going to end up. Now I know that an outline is important for this but when I have sat down to write it I can see the beginning and the end, plus some of the stuff that happens on the way but tying it all together baffles me.

Also the script I am working on is not really anything like the graphic novels and comics that I have enjoyed reading. Some of my favourite comics are fairly edgy and for a mature audience, my script and plans for it are very tame by comparison.

Then probably the most important one is that I'm finding it hard to get to know and ultimately like my characters. Zeke and Skeeter were a lot of fun to write in my NaNoWriMo as supporting characters - Zeke was the wise mentor who always had a lot of good advice and I had a lot of fun writing Skeeter even though he didn't feature as much as Zeke. Writing them now in this prequel they don't seem as interesting to me.

So what I am I going to do, considering that I am a couple of days behind with my page count already? Well I have decided to start another script, the one that I was intending to write before I thought to write my current script. It will be another graphic novel script but I have a far clearer idea for it and the main character is one that has been around in my head (but rarely in written form) for 8 years now.

So today was the kick off for Script Frenzy, a month long script writing challenge in which the goal is to write 100 pages of script before the end of April.

I took part in NaNoWriMo for the first time last year and managed to reach the goal of 50,000 words but still have not actually completed my novel. Reading it now most of it still makes me cringe but there are some good parts which I am quite proud of.

My script for Script Frenzy is sort of a prequel to my NaNoWriMo novel which was about the formation of a Christian ska band. The script I am writing for Script Frenzy will be a graphic novel script (just the script so far, my art skills are terrible) about some of the secondary characters from my NaNoWriMo novel, the band Cross Affiliation who acted as mentors to the members of the ska band.

Writing a script is a completely new thing for me and I will admit I am finding it a little difficult but I am sure that I will soon get the hang of it. I am using a free program called Celtx which is specially designed for scripts which is fairly simple to use with some good features.

I'm attending a Script Frenzy kick-off party tonight which I am looking forward to. I enjoyed attending the write-ins for NaNoWriMo and some of the same people will be along tonight.