Best of Intentions

So I'm looking over my writer's blog (this one) and I suddenly realize it's been horribly neglected. On the up side, I have been reading but that is still not the same. I have been caught up with the responsibilities of home and work and school and have let my writing falter, a bit.

Well no more!


Next month is April and that means Script Frenzy! So I have to get in gear if I'm going to write a script in 30 days. To be honest Script Frenzy should actually be easier than NaNoWriMo was because it's simply less writing required in the same amount of time. That said, I think that it evens out because of the learning curve  required for screenplay writing and needing to properly format and everything. It's basically having to learn a whole new way to write!

I will be writing my script using Celtx which I used last year for my first ScriptFrenzy! attempt...one I didn't finish due to computer failings. Now I have a new computer so hopefully that wont be an issue this year.

So....now I brainstorm! The guns fire GO on April 1st and I have exactly 2 and 1/2 weeks or 18 days! I'm excited to take it on, but I want to lay some ground work. I need a plot and some characters figured out ahead of time so that means it's time for a BRAIN TSUNAMI!

Logline: a one-sentence "25 words or less" description of a screenplay.

Example: Taken aback by a letter from an old boyfriend announcing a new baby with his wife, divorced fiction writer Mavis Gary returns to her hometown reconnecting with her former lover.

OR

A Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a getaway driver is lured from his isolated life by a lovely neighbor-until her violent husband is released from prison. 

These are loglines for Young Adult and Drive, respectively. Now I need some leads of my own. A premise or basic structure to set my script in. I need to know first my genre and then the most basic, simple base of the plot or story. I will be brainstorming ideas in my next post. 

Ciao for now

~K