Hey everyone!
Here's some awesome pep for your final hours....
Dear Scriptwriter,
Right now, you are in one of two camps. You are either feeling pretty good about this 100-page challenge thing and are already booking your next adventure (I've heard Everest is nice this time of year). Or, you're way behind and are pretty sure this was a terrible, horrible idea from the start.
If you're in camp one, please send a postcard from your destination.
If you're in camp two, please keep reading.
I have devised a short quiz for you. The results will help you figure out how to spend what's left of Script Frenzy 2010.
As a result of participating in Script Frenzy this April:
- How many pages have you written that you would not have otherwise written?
- How many hours have you carved out to think about your story?
- How many characters have come to life in your imagination that would not have had a fighting chance in say, July?
- How many lines of dialogue have you written?
- How many cups of coffee have you had?
Please add up your answers.
If you scored 1 or higher, please keep writing.
Even if you're sure, and I mean REALLY sure, that you won't hit 100 pages by April 30, you've created more in the past 28 days than you would have at any other time. And that is nothing to take lightly. Just think of what you can do to help your story come to life in the last hours of Script Frenzy.
Every single minute you spend writing and every line that you add to your script will help you later.
I've found that all the days in April are equal. Just because the remaining days are at the end of the event, it is no less important that you use them wisely.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Clear your schedule. Cancel everything that isn't writing. Reschedule Thursday's dinner for next week. Take Wednesday afternoon off work. You have until Friday at 11:59 PM. Get as much done has super-humanly possible. (I know you've got a pod of extra awesomeness that is just waiting to be busted out and ripped open.)
You can do this.
Good luck!
Jen
