June 2012
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Script Frenzy is dead. Long live Script Frenzy.
For those asking/wondering:
No, I will not shut down this blog. I’ll still post stuff about script writing whenever I can.
No, I don’t see this as the real end of Script Frenzy and…
Yes, I will still be doing it and posting articles about it every year
Yes, I am going to try to set up some kind of site or message board to keep the Screnzy going, details to follow
If...
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BREAKING NEWS: OLL cancels Script Frenzy, sister...
Here’s the official announcement on this:
Dear Scriptwriters,
One thing that has made us proud over the years is how many people can call themselves scriptwriters because of Script Frenzy. Since 2007, the year Script Frenzy began, you and 85,000 other total participants have taken on the audacious challenge of writing a 100-page script—churning out nearly 1.4 million pages of original...
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The 22 rules of storytelling, according to Pixar
You admire a character for trying more than for their successes.
You gotta keep in mind what’s interesting to you as an audience, not what’s fun to do as a writer. They can be v. different.
Trying for theme is important, but you won’t see what the story is actually about til you’re at the end of it. Now rewrite.
Once upon a time there was ___. Every day, ___. One day ___. Because of that,...
