Scriptwriting - Final Week!
Okay, I missed posting last week!
But since it’s the day before the end, and by this week-end just gone (26/27 April) I’d got to 95 pages… well that’s what Celtx Print Preview said anyway… I was going to leave it until I finished… but that leaves the question of finished the month or finished the script?
Well, I have past the 100 pages now, and when you validate in the Script Frenzy site - if it’s happy you’ve past 100 pages, it declares you a Winner! So it seems like the time to write a post about it!
I haven’t finished the script yet (I may well post that once it’s done and I’m happy with it, but don’t hold your breath - it’s a big step to let people see your writings when it’s a whole big fiction script!) - and I do plan to finish it, hopefully very soon (like the next week or so!), but it’s nearly there… So what’s the point of this post apart from that?
The ‘validation’ needed the script in PDF format, and to get it there from Celtx, I had to export it as a text file, import it to a word processor then export it again as a PDF… Since Word doesn’t have PDF as an output format, I had to use Open Office which does have the PDF output option, and it’s FREE (at http://download.openoffice.org/) - now here’s the fun part… I only tried this yesterday, and when you paste the text into the word processor it’s only 87 pages!!! With two days to go!!!
So I’ve just spent most of the day writing more scenes for the script! Another 22 pages! If I’d written at that rate for the last 28 days I’d have, let’s see… (gets calculator going)… 638 pages! Anyway, I went through the conversion process and it validated it okay, and declared me a winner! The first time I’ve won anything for my writing - and no, you don’t get a ‘real’ prize - a publishing contract or any money - but it’s still very satisfying (even more so once I actually finish the script/story itself!) - You do get an e-certificate thingy though, and can use their ‘winner’ jpgs - see below.
So that’s my third writing project:
- NaNoWriMo novel in 30 days (Feb, 2008 - done on my own, rather than for the proper November event)
- NaNoEdMo edit a novel in 30 days (March 2008 - ‘Won’ as I scraped through on the 50 hour target, but haven’t finished editing yet)
- Script Frenzy 2008 - 100 page(s of) script in 30 days (April 2008, not quite finished the script yet, but got past the 100 page mark!)
Now I’m reading up on how to get published - as in physically, on paper, by a ‘proper’ publisher… I’ll do a post about that if it ever happens!
So now I just need to get back to doing some Internet Marketing! If I don’t start another writing project… though maybe I should finish one first!
Cheers for now,
Andy. 
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