NaNoWriMo :: NaNoWriMo Blog

So today, I was eating my triple-decker club sandwich (Monday is deluxe sandwich day to help offset the Mondayness of Mondays) and was reading the Onion interview with filmmaker Michel Gondry (Be Kind Rewind, the Science of Sleep, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, etc.).

Be Kind Rewind is his latest, and you can get the gist of the movie through the trailer (in fact, having seen Be Kind Rewind, I would say that once you've seen the trailer, you've pretty much seen the entire film). Anyway, I like Michel Gondry, and he said something in the interview about the film that really resonated with me…

"It sort of fuses this idea I've had for years, believing that people could create their own entertainment and they would enjoy it better, because they are in it. …[I]t's like watching a home movie. You don't watch it for the technique, you watch because it's reminiscing on good moments you spent with your friends. It reflects you. It belongs to you. So I was thinking people could, instead of spending their money to go and see a blockbuster, make their own movies."

I think my NaNoWriMo novels and Script Frenzy screenplay definitely evoke that spirit. They're so much more than just atrocious pieces of creative writing because they're my pieces of atrocious creative writing. Each one reminds me of my life at that point; the people I was writing with, the music I was listening to, and the things I thought were important and interesting.

I love the idea of a world where people get together and make their own movies, just for fun. Which is a great segue into the fact that we relaunched the Script Frenzy site this weekend. It involved a lot of late nights on the part of our tiny crew, but it looks great, and even has a few new features.

We've moved the event up two months to April, and expanded it to include novel adaptations, comic book and graphic novel scripts, and TV shows. Are you in?

Chris