If you haven't already been plotting and planning for National Novel Writing Month (Script Frenzy's sister event), you may want to head on over to http://ywp.nanowrimo.org to sign up.
National Novel Writing Month (or NaNoWriMo) happens each November and, as you might have already guessed, challenges participants to write an entire novel in 30 days.
This year we are expecting over 30,000 young, talented, and partly insane writers to participate!
Who will be cheering us on as we write our masterpieces? Awesome YA authors, that's who! Check out who's on board already to write pep-talk emails by visiting our Pep Talkers 2009 page.
See you all in November,
Tavia
Being a Professional Writer and the Power of Rewrite
By Beth Brandon
Congratulations! You finished a draft! This is something to be very proud/excited/anxious/elated/thrilled/terrified about. By finishing this draft you have single handedly pushed yourself above the ranks of those who could not finish a draft. Take a deep breath. Pat your back. Or have someone pat it for you. There are far less of us who finish. Trust me. (Go check out the stats on the Script Frenzy website. I’ll wait.)
So. Now what? Where do you go from here?
Let’s face it first drafts are notoriously awful. Everyone writes bad first drafts. Even Paul Haggis and Diablo Cody (although I’ve never actually read a first draft of either of theirs, but I imagine they’re just like the rest of us.)
You Wrote a Script! Now What?
So you've completed a script, and now it's time to ease yourself back into the "real world." A world without acts, scenes, sound effects, or well-planned dialogue. A world where you are expected to balance school work, family time, and your social life. One where you can no longer use the excuse: "Sorry, busy writing my script."
After you’ve learned to refrain from blurting out one-liners in the cafeteria and stopped referring to strangers as extras, check out the You Wrote a Script! Now What? page.
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