I wanted to give everyone advance warning that the second-annual Script Frenzy will be commencing on April 1. We've moved it up two months, and opened it up to more writers. Now, in addition to original feature-length screenplays and stage plays, the escapade includes adaptations of novels, short film scripts, graphic novel and comic book scripts, and even radio dramas.. As long as you cumulatively write 100 pages of script in April, you're a winner.
If you've been thinking that one of your NaNoWriMo manuscripts would make an awesome movie or play, April is the ideal month to find out. I wrote my first screenplay for Script Frenzy last year, and learning to tell a big story using only dialogue ended up paying big dividends in my novel-writing as well. I'd say Script Frenzy made my novel dialogue and pacing 349% less sucky overall, bringing both of them all the way up to a third-grade level.
Sweet progress.
I was also pleasantly surprised by how easy the dreaded formatting turned out to be, and how many great pieces of free scriptwriting software there are out there to automate the whole process. Here's to a heavily scripted April!
Chris