But Not Quite Yet, and ScriptFrenzy in April

Hello again. It seems that I have become busier over the past couple months, despite my thought that the hectic pace would diminish somewhat. Such is life. For now. I have taken on new classes and am currently running at over the official maximum allotment for how many students I'm technically allowed to have in my online classes. So, that's a more-than-full-time job. It's running me something like sixty hours a week. Ridiculous, but some people have it worse. It's almost bearable, except the fact that I am realizing more and more how much time I used to have and didn't do anything with. But I think sometimes I work better when I have too much to do--procrastinating on one thing spurs me to accomplish something else, be it laundry, catching up on some reading, or perhaps writing (but not doing the dishes--I still don't like that and wish we had a dishwasher, because I'm lazy about that unless the rest of the house is clean first).

I do plan to get back into writing, and I've found some positive motivation. I've been tinkering with one very specific idea for a screenplay for awhile now. Last year in mid-November, I remembered NaNoWriMo existed, so I was naturally annoyed I hadn't remembered a fortnight earlier. But in working through their website, I stumbled upon ScriptFrenzy, a sister site that runs its event throughout the month of April.

The challenge: write 100 pages of a play/screenplay/teleplay/script/etc. in 30 days. I'm going to do it, despite (read: largely because of) my busy schedule. If you've been wanting to write a screenplay or something similar, or just to try to write one, I humbly ask you to join me. My username on there is "ieromik" but you can probably find my by my email address too. I could use the encouragement/motivation to have some of you along for the ride (I'm lookin' at you, Bethany--you could use some distraction from that other writing, I think; you've been going at it like mad, so take a breather).

I also discovered that NaNoWriMo has had another project for awhile: Camp NaNoWriMo. It's essentially the same deal as NaNoWriMo (i.e. write at least 50,000 words--a novel--in a month). The difference is it's themed as a summer camp, meaning it's not in November. Rather, it's going to happen in June and August. My plan is to participate in both of those. I'll probably throw out a reminder for that when June is a bit closer, because I'll definitely need some of you along for that ride (still looking at you, Bethany--that should be the middle of working-on-one-of-your-sequels time; also looking at Timothy for similar reasons).

For now, who's with me on ScriptFrenzy? Any takers?

JF

EDIT: Anyone?