April.

So where’d the first quarter of 2010 go?

Oh well, what’s past is past. Time to get on with the present and plan for the future.

I’m feeling so much better these days. I seem to be on the right level of medication to counteract the effects of my bipolar disorder and am thus able to concentrate and do things with my days.

And best of all, I am able to enjoy my life and write.

So here goes.

I have entered ScriptFrenzy – an annual scriptwriting event encouraging all those wannabe scriptwriters to get of their arses and do something about it. And all with the support of thousands of other people doing exactly the same thing. (Just over 17,500 this year.)

ScriptFrenzy lasts for one month – April – and the goal for everybody is to write 100 pages of script (not necessarily in one actual story). The script can either be for tv, film, stage, radio, comic book etc.

Ths idea stems from National Novel Writing Month (Nanowrimo) which has been running across the world every November for a number of years now, with the objective of writing a 175-page (50,000-word) novel. (120,000 people took part in 2008 and 20,000 completed the goal.)

Of course, with all of this, the objective is to write, write, write a first draft. Nothing else. If you complete the page/word goal then you win!

And after you have won, then that is the time to take that hastily written 3 pages a day script, or 6 pages a day novel an do something with it, like editing, writing more drafts, and hopefully on to submitting the finished work somewhere for performance/publication.

So wish me luck.

And boy do I need it.

I only decided to do this when I came across the site a couple of days ago. And it’s not as if I haven’t got anything else to do.

This month I have also planned to finish and submit my full length Nuffield Writers Group graduation piece, which is nearly completed, (and overdue) as well as get most of the way through a novella I’m writing for a good friend to read to his three year old child; Hi Josh, it’s on its way – Chapter 5 today!

So, as well as working in Coventry, and all the other stuff one has to do, I’m going to be very busy this April. No time to suffer from depression!

And I’ll keep up my blog too, letting you know my progress every few days if I have the time!

Oh well, that’s my first 450 words written today – there’s a counter at the bottom of my input box – but it doesn’t count towards anything, so I had better get on with some scripting!

Cheers!