BEDA, Screnzy, and Ugh!

Yeah, so that whole resolution about my posting here once a week hasn't really worked out too well, has it? Oh well. Guess I'll just have to make it up to y'all.

To start that, I'm participating in Blog Every Day in April (also known as BEDA) this year. This is my first post.

Updates on me are not worth telling, except that I've been doing a lot of role-playing (links to come in a later post) and I'm currently sick.

So as I sit on the couch, covered my Harry Potter fleece blanket, watching Tangled for the second time, and trying to muster up the energy to go to work in three hours, I figured I should do a little post to get things started again.

At this time, the only thing worth saying is that I am also competing in Screnzy this month, as I did last year. Some of you may know, but Screnzy is short for Script Frenzy. It's hosted by the Office of Letters and Light, who also host NaNoWriMo in November. The goal is to write 100 pages of a script (or several short scripts equaling 100 pages) in a month.

Last year I did an adaptation of my first NaNo novel and failed. This year, I am determined to win! I've come up with a completely new idea:

In the year 5017, when all the planets in our galaxy have been modified so as to be inhabitable by humans, a plague sweeps over Mars, killing every over the age of thirty. To document the disaster and also see that the schools remain open, Marie - a high school history teacher from Earth - goes on a missionary trip to Mars with her seven-year-old son. However, Marie wasn't told of the new laws being put into effect on Mars to increase the population. All single adults are being forced to marry and conceive a child within a year of their wedding. Marie is matched to a single father of two. Colin, whose ex-wife died shortly after their divorce six months ago, isn't quite ready to be in a new relationship, nor are his daughter and son ready to have a stepmother.

It's a romantic-comedy, really. But it has hints of mystery as Marie starts to figure out that the plague wasn't natural, and that Colin might have had something to do with it. So far it's going good. I've written five pages (more that the daily quota) and will probably do a couple more after I post this. If anyone wants to be Screnzy buddies, go ahead and add me on the site. My username is Elizabeth_Sabourin.

That's all for now, guys. Talk to you tomorrow!

-Lizzy =)