Press and Media

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Statistics

Annual participants/winners in the Script Frenzy main program:

  • 2007: 7,876 participants and 1,072 winners
  • 2008: 8,526 participants and 968 winners
  • 2009: 12,048 participants and 1,271 winners
  • 2010: 21,199 participants and 2,078 winners

Annual participants in the Script Frenzy Young Writers Program:

  • 2007: 50
  • 2008: 840
  • 2009: 1,700
  • 2010: 2,424

 

In the News

The Huffington Post
We see scriptwriting as a great, rewarding writing adventure for people of all ages and experience levels. It's been exciting watching thousands of people spending April discovering one of the awesome movies or play we all have within us. (3/31/11)

 

Crushable

I bet you’ve watched Hollywood blockbusters, TV shows, or plays, and thought to yourself, Hey, I can do this! But life has gotten in the way of your writerly ambitions, with school, sports, relationships, work, and hobbies all claiming chunks of your time. That’s where Script Frenzy comes in. (3/31/11)

 

io9
So you think you're ready to write the next Inception but you don't know where to start? The best way to cook up a compelling story is to explore the juicy conflict between what your character wants and what they actually need. (3/25/11)

 

The Telegram
A graphic designer by day, script writer by night, Angus Woodman's interests are as varied as the characters and scenarios in his sketch comedy radio show. (4/25/09)

 

The Writing Teacher
By participating in these kinds of projects, my students were learning to become authors – they began to see the world as a place where writing has purpose and relevance. (4/1/09)

 

Bostonist
Script Frenzy has encouraged me to try something new that I wouldn't ordinarily have tried. (06/25/07)

 

North County Times
From today until June 30, Diann Tongco will be one of more than 6,000 people in a state of temporary madness as she cranks out 20,000 words for the first stage play she's ever written in her life. (06/11/07)

 

ReadyMade Blog
You’d better start limbering up your fingers and cleaning the crumbs out of your keyboard tray, because June is shaping up to be an action- (or mystery- or romance- or comedy- or drama- or some clever cross-genre combination-) packed month. (05/24/07)