Script Frenzy

Script Frenzy is:

“…an international writing event in which participants take on the challenge of writing 100 pages of scripted material in the month of April. As part of a donation-funded nonprofit, Script Frenzy charges no fee to participate; there are also no valuable prizes awarded or “best” scripts singled out. Every writer who completes the goal of 100 pages is victorious and awe-inspiring and will receive a handsome Script Frenzy Winner’s Certificate and web icon proclaiming this fact.”

Hey, I am totally down with this. Witness my latest installment of Dumb Little Writing Tricks That Works: Set A Deadline:

There are a lot of find things to motivate a writer to write.
The desire to craft a wonderful story…
The fantasy of writing a million dollar spec script…
The realization of putting on paper the singular story your life has led you to tell.

And then there’s possibly the best motivator of all…
Humiliation.
Or the threat thereof.

If you can orchestrate events so that the fear of being humiliated by not writing is greater than the fear of having people read what you do write, then you will be well on your way to getting your ass in chair and plowing ahead to FADE OUT.

So how to ensure this threat of humiliation?

Set a deadline.
Not just any deadline.
A public deadline!

Whereas I’m clearly going for the negative angle, the Script Frenzy folks are evidently into that whole positive reinforcement thing, what with the tantalizing offer of a “handsome Script Frenzy Winner’s Certificate.”

Whatever. 

Just as long as it motivates you to write your ass off in April. 

Angela at A Galaxy of Dreams is prepping to do the Script Frenzy challenge.

Anybody else?

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