You might've heard of NaNoWriMo. It's a challenge to write the first draft of a novel in thirty days - those days falling between 1-30 November. There's a website where you can chat with other participants, give and find advice or other useful writerly tools and resources, and successful published authors - people you've actually heard of - sometimes pop in with words of encouragement. It costs nothing and is loads of fun. The worst that can happen is you discover you're a terrible writer, a disgrace to humanity, and slit your wrists. I kid.

The makers of NaNoWriMo are bringing the same basic set-up to scriptwriting. Script Frenzy goes down between 1-30 April (because it'd be insane to write both a novel AND a script in November), and the goal is to write 100 pages of script. Could be a film script, a TV episode, stage play, short film, graphic novel... All the info is available at http://scriptfrenzy.org if you think you might be interested. Like NaNo, it's totally free and not-for-profit.

If you participate, let us know how you go, eh?

Thanks to David for the heads up!