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On knowing when to say cut

By jEN | Published: April 12, 2009

Script Frenzy. I’ve stopped writing for it. It’s not that I don’t think I can do it — I know I can — but I have some more important stuff going on right now and cannot afford to be stressed and divided. I’ve been having some focus and mania issues over the past week or [...]

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Not what you think

By jEN | Published: April 7, 2009

I really have given myself a doozy of a task with this Script Frenzy thing. After a particularly rubbish brain day yesterday, I had a late evening “thinking bath” where I hatched the only good idea for the script I’d had all day. Neil has reminded me that not only am I writing a script [...]

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What do I know about script writing?

By jEN | Published: March 31, 2009

Nothing. Yet. But I’m getting there. Why am I concerned about script writing? Because, if you’ve seen the banner in my sidebar, I’m participating in Script Frenzy 2009. It’s a one month / 100 page script writing challenge in the same vein as NaNoWriMo. The allure of writing a script is a simple one for [...]

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Rainy Monday update

By jEN | Published: February 9, 2009

Though my to-do list for today is mostly domestic, I have begun the editing process on the novel I wrote for NaNoWriMo 2008, and that’s kind of scary. I’m reading a book on how to edit your own fiction writing and it has been helpful from the very first page. Editing, I’m finding, is more [...]