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I am Dani Smith, sometimes known around the web as Eglentyne. I am a writer in Texas. I like my beer and my chocolate bitter and my pens pointy.
This blog is one of my hobbies. I also knit, sew, run, parent, cook, eat, read, and procrastinate. I have too many hobbies and don’t sleep enough. Around here I talk about whatever is on my mind, mostly reading and writing, but if you hang out long enough, some knitting is bound to show up.
Thank you for respecting my intellectual property and for promoting the free-flow of information and ideas. If you’re not respecting intellectual property, then you’re stealing. Don’t be a stealer. Steelers are ok sometimes (not all of them), but don’t be a thief.
Sunday, April 13, 2008 at 7:25PM I have a cold in my nose and 33 pages in my script.
Zooooommmmm!
Germinology, ScriptFrenzy, Writing in Words Saturday, April 12, 2008 at 9:40AM —There’s nothing funnier to a five-year-old (or seven-year-old or three-year-old) than a reference to excrement. Bonus giggles for scatological rhyme.
—I have written 15 pages on the script.
Monday, March 31, 2008 at 2:21PM Tomorrow begins the second annual ScriptFrenzy. This is related to November’s National Novel Writing Month, by the Office of Letters and Light, but for scripty things rather than novels.
I wrote my very first screenplay during last year’s Frenzy, and it was a blast. I learned so much about my writing style, about constructing dialogue, about ways to organize and visualize a story.
I’ve drafted three novels as well, but my first ScriptFrenzy is easily my favorite piece of writing.
If you have any sort of writing inclination whatsoever, you should check it out. Even if you don’t have any writing inclination, go check it out. Recommend that your friends and siblings check it out. Ileana, tell Patrick to check it out. ;) Make a donation while you’re there to support their young writer’s program, which provides curriculum and instruction ideas to put writing into the classroom for students of all ages.
This year, they’ve opened up the possibilities to include comic book scripts, radioplays, television scripts, and shorts. The goal is to write 100 formatted script pages during the month of April. That’s just 3.3 pages per day.
You could do that.
Seriously.
Give it a try. I’m “eglentyne” over there too if you want to add me to your writing buddies.
