First day of Screnzy!

Alright, so Screnzy is based off of page count, not word count like NaNo is, right? So you need 100 pages of script to win, which boils down to exactly 3 1/3 pages per day...but I figure I'll call that 3 1/2 because you'll be estimating and that's much more of an easy estimate (plus it'll put ya ahead by five whole pages at the end of it!)

So today I lucked out and got a light homework load, and was determined to put a system in place: no doing ANYTHING at home (other than feeding the cats) until one page of script is written. So I sat down for what seemed like five minutes (I think it was really closer to ten or twenty) and started writing Last Lights. Then I checked the page count, since I'm using Celtx and can't see the page count when I write - and I already had 3 1/2 pages!

I'm now very optimistic about doing this...

Why?

I have 13 pages now! That's about where I should be at the end of April 4, not April 1! This means I'm over 10% of the way through...and only on the first day!

I'm so excited - I might finish early! Technically, I "finished" early with NaNo, too, since I hit 50k on the 25th due to a very long day of writing with my NaNo buddy, but I didn't actually finish the novel until the wee hours of the 30th.

But I outlined Last Lights before I even started (that's what I spent a lot of last week doing after discovering a vital plot bunny the week before and mentally brainstorming), so it's really easy to write now. Outlines are wonderful things, especially if they're vague enough to still keep the draft creative. :)

Anyway, things are starting to happen in my script with bleeding excitement, and I'm going to go sleep now (or something).

I'll talk more about Screnzy later - if you want to see how I'm doing (if you, the reader, even exists), then check out my Twitter!