ScriptFrenzy: Okay, This Is Delightfully Nuts
This is a NaNoWriMo cousin event.
It’s a script writing contest : play or movie makes no never mind.
And it’s only 20,000 words.
Now, as you all are aware, I know at least 20,000 words.
So, given that ScriptFrenzy starts on June 1, 2007 and that is the month in which I will turn 50, I think I’m gonna give this a try.
Remember my 2006 NaNoWriMo request? (Which I am still working on, in case you were wondering - and thank you all again, your ideas were manure, rain and sunshine for my fallow imagination!)
(No, seriously. Manure, rain and sunshine. That’s how I think of all my friends. Which is who and who is what depends on my mood really, though.)
So here’s the thing of it.
I’m thinking a stage fantasy and totally stream-of-conciousness riffing here, ghosts, Atlantis, spiritual possession, (hell, spiritual dispossesion), Victorian sets, disembodied voices, disemvoiced bodies, you get the brunt of my gist…
But don’t be intimidated by the perceived limitations of a stage play: remember stage illusions can be indistinguishable from magic!
So do the same thing again you did last time. Give me a phrase, a short sentence, a soupcon of je-ne-sais-quoi, seven to ten words. Keeping in mind it’s for a live action stage script (Ronnie!) that may never be produced except on the Flash stage of my mind.
Deadline: I guess about Friday May 25 to give my a week to integrate your amazing ideas.
FY yer I: My bona fides: In high school I played Macbeth in Macbeth (the Shakespeare one) and John Proctor in Arthur Miller’s ‘The Crucible’, so over 30 years later, I must still have some stage cred, right?
Wow, as I write this, I’m thinking that a 20,000 word stage fantasy might be more challenging than NaNoWriMo! Cool.
May 12th, 2007 at 10:04 pm
Many years ago, when the Kids in the Hall were still regulars at the Rivoli, they were doing improv and asked for an opening line from the audience — and wound up with the phrase “Put away that gun!” An oldie, but still a goodie.
(Their second line turned out to be “I can see I’m going to have to find another roommate…”)
:)
May 16th, 2007 at 8:29 pm
How about….
“Vampire, shmampire. It doesn’t scare me!.”
May 17th, 2007 at 9:14 am
Both excellent contributions!
The images they inspire are inspiring images!