ScriptFrenzy Update
Posted on | April 9, 2008 | 5 Comments
For those of you interested in my ScriptFrenzy journey (and I realise it’s incredibly unlikely that any of you are), I am now twenty pages in. In an odd quirk of mathematics, this means I am also twenty percent finished – aren’t sums funny?
So, one fifth of the way there in output but somewhere more than that in time.
Lets see… Nine days out of thirty… That’s 30/9… No, no… 9/30… Multiplied by 100… Carry the one… Reciprocal venn diagram… Is a function of two trains leaving a station… Solve for X…
Thirty percent, people. Almost a third of the way through in time.
So that’s me with 20% of my output produced in 30% of the available time. This has been a maths-heavy post which has made me tired, so if anyone wants to work out how far behind I am, feel free to post in the comments.
Remember to show your workings though.
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Gerry Hayes
I mostly sit around all day and drink tea. Occasionally, I write stuff and send it to strangers so they can humiliate me and deride my efforts. Other than the self-harm to dull the shame of failure, it's not a bad life. Like I say, there's tea.
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You’re 10% behind (30% – 20% = 10%).
Go on, throw us another.
It all depends on how full you expect to fill the remaining pages. You could have a lot of awkward silences in the ending
Ister: Cah. It’s easy when you see it laid out like that. You’re like that bloke in Good Will Hunting. Or that bloke in A Beautiful Mind. Or the piano genius from Shine, only with numbers.
Clarissa: Unfortunately, awkward silences will probably not take as much page-space as awkward, abstract conversational-space. Can a conversation take up space? I’m getting nearly as philosophical as you were earlier with your Richard(s) dichotomy.
Bad move – never count the pages – slows you down I reckon.
You’re most likely right, RM. However, for the purposes of the ScriptFrenzy thing, success is measured in output. Not the best way to ensure quality writing but at least it got me to concentrate on getting a feature-length first draft done.