Script Frenzy is dead. Long live Script Frenzy.

As we discussed at length last week, Script Frenzy has been cancelled and I was annoyed but I’ve come to peace with it. But when one door closes, another opens and I’m excited to keep the Screnzy alive unofficially through Camp NaNoWriMo.

But before we get to that, I want to take a moment to talk to my fellow Script Frenzy members.

Thank you.

Thank you for your enthusiasm, your passion, and your talents. Thank you whether you signed up and never actually participated or whether you were one of the event’s most outspoken supporters. Thank you for writing 100 pages every year or never actually managing to finish your script by the deadline. Because Script Frenzy was small on the local level, it made for a larger, world-wide community with writers from all over the world at our online events and I truly thank you no matter where you are for sharing in this crazy writing frenzy. I loved this event, small as it was, and each of you were a part of that. I will miss writing with you.

While the spirit of Script Frenzy will live on, the site itself will go down for good soon and our contingent of script writers will be tossed back into the wider pool of writers with no way to find each other. Before we all lose touch, I need you to promise me one thing. Promise me that, even without the 30 day April deadline, you’ll keep writing, keep working on your dreams and keep nurturing your creativity in the face of all the distractions of the real world. The end of Script Frenzy doesn’t have to mean the end of your script writing journey and I hope you won’t let it be.

On that note, there is a little good news in the midst of this. Camp NaNoWriMo will be held in April this year and they’ve added a new option to allow you to write scripts. So, while it’s no Script Frenzy, you’ll still be able to participate in a Screnzy-like event by writing your script in 30 days during the April Camp NaNoWriMo session. The community structure for that event is very different than what you may be used to from Screnzy (no MLs or local events) but it’s at least a way to keep the Script Frenzy challenge alive. I encourage you to consider joining me in participating this year.  (You can use the same login info as you did for Script Frenzy if you want to check it out.) You can set your own word count goal so you’re not locked into 100 pages or 50,000 words.

Will you be writing a script as part of Camp NaNoWriMo this year? How else would you like to see us keep the spirit of this event alive?