June 1st is the official start date to the latest month-long writing contest to hit the internet. Meet Script Frenzy:

Script Frenzy is an international writing event in which participants attempt the creatively daring feat of writing an original, full-length screenplay—or stage play—in a single month. Spurred by a wild deadline and buoyed by a community of countless other writers, Script Frenzy participants can't be bothered with self-doubt—or editing. They're too busy writing by the seat of their pants, typing out beautiful, flawed stories that no one else could have dreamt up.

As part of a donation-funded nonprofit, Script Frenzy charges no fee to participate; there are also no valuable prizes awarded or "best" scripts singled out. Every writer who completes the goal of 20,000 words is victorious and awe-inspiring and will get a Script Frenzy Winner's Certificate and web icon proclaiming this fact. Even those who fall short of the word goal will be applauded for making a heroic attempt. Really, you have nothing to lose—except that nagging feeling that there's a script inside you that may never get out.

The 5 Basic Rules of Script Frenzy

1) To be crowned an official Script Frenzy winner, you must write a script of at least 20,000 words and verify this word count on ScriptFrenzy.org.

2) You may write individually or in teams of two. Writer teams will have a 20,000 total word goal for their single co-written script.

3) Script writing may begin no earlier than 12:00:01 AM on June 1 and must cease no later than 11:59:59 PM on June 30, local time.

4) You may write either a screenplay or a stage play.

5) You must, at some point, have ridiculous amounts of fun.

As someone who gave NaNoWriMo a try this last November and failed miserably, I offer my admiration to anyone who is taking this on.

Nabikineum, of With My Own Two Hands is participating this year:

Zayna Breaks Out, my Script Frenzy project is taking shape (as it should, gotta start real writing in a few days) and I look forward to burying myself in plots and wordcounts again. Bionic chicks adjusting to their powers and avenging ex-boyfriends ahoy!

Now that sounds like I movie I'd be lining up to see.

BlogHer Contributing Editor Liz Rizzo is participating as well:

Here's the thing - I have a screenplay idea I've been mulling around for a while. I also like that committing to this goal means barrelling through. It also means dropping anything extraneous and writing all the time, everyday. I would still have to blog for BlogHer and On The Lot. I would still have work and... you know, live my life. No extraneous fun stuff, but some fun stuff. All of Saturday June 2 is already booked up. I would, however, not do a book review in June, and I'd have to put off working on my film short screenplay. Again. Hm.

It's one of those, Yeah, But When Is It Ever A Good Time things.

It's 666 words a day, people. Take that for what you will.

Have you had a screenplay bouncing around in your head for a while now? Are you willing to take the leap? You've got a few days left...who else is taking the Script Frenzy challenge?

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