Feeling Spring in the air and a bounce in my step, I decided to April Fool myself and sign up for Script Frenzy. What is Script Frenzy? Well it’s kind of like a national stop smoking day, only instead of being one day to make a pledge, it’s a whole month of frenzied writing – 100 pages in fact – of a screenplay or a stage play that you may have had dancing around in your head for years. At the Book Festival I met a few other Cville writers from Writer House (a cooperative of literary types) and that combined with this script challenge led me to writing stage directions and downloading Celtx!
If you break it down, it’s only about 4 pages a day. You know the plot already:
1) An ADD Blogger bemoans her empty nest
2) Tornado appears
3) Mishaps ensue
Meanwhile back in the blogosphere. Yesterday I got around 300 hits on my “Parenting Old School” post. I can only guess I was “pinging” around because I created a link to the original author’s blog my friend Polli posted to her newsfeed. Normally I might get 20-50 new hits, so I was excited and terrified all at once. Who are all these people?? To which Bob said, “Well are you only writing for your friends?” Smart man. I kept thinking about what my Great Aunt Bert asked me years ago – “Where does your blog go?” And according to Word Press, it’s been around the world a few times. Thanks for visiting everyone!
Here’s to all us “bad” parents out there – sending our kids to Paris alone and letting them find their way home via the NY subway system. And here’s to this febrile feeble attempt at play writing! They didn’t write “Broadway Bound” under my yearbook picture for nothing!!
Go Go 1966 dancer
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