To answer my own question, apparently the Validator feature, which allows one to upload a file, isn’t ready yet. You’d kind of think they’d want that to be ready the day they start, wouldn’t you?
From what I’ve read, that will be available on the 15th. The main thing most people do is update their page counts in their profiles to indicate progress.
I figured it’s okay to resurrect this thread, since it’s still April and Script Frenzy is still going on. I signed on as “Manuel Royal”. I’m using a work in progress, starting with 24 pages, so I need to make 124. I’m at page 62, leaving me 62 pages to write in 12 days, including today.
It’s been a great motivator. I’ve written more in the month so far than in the whole previous year. It’s forced me to stop endlessly rewriting and just commit to finishing the first draft, no matter how bad it is. Pages and pages of unlikely expository dialogue, clunky transitions, half-baked ideas – it’s all there. When I’ve got a finished piece of crap with a beginning, middle and end I’ll at least have something to work with.
Anybody else still doing this?
ETA: Still no page validator on the site. (We’re supposed to eventually be able to upload a plain text version and get an official page count.)
Yeah, I’m still doing it! Up to around page 80, though I’m convinced my pacing is all off. Oh well - it’s just a first draft, I can try to fix that later. 
And - I saw a page validator on the site, though it’s not plain text, it only accepts PDF format. I just tried it out and it seems to be giving me an extra page.
88 pages, by the official counter. Which includes the title page, so I’m going to have to go for 101 pages, just to make it not cheating. But, of course, I’m pretty sure this script will run at least 120, maybe as high as 150 before editing, so…
Still, just over a page a day? Easy as pie.
Nice for you! I’m at 59 pages, with 65 to go. Trying to hit 80 by the end of this weekend.
I’ll feel like crap if I can’t meet this challenge. Besides, I already bought a Ghirardelli 60% cacao espresso bar to celebrate.
I just had the same funny experience somebody posted about a few months ago: I was typing away on my crappy screenplay, using my keyboard shortcuts for the different paragraph styles, when I accidentally hit the “Windows+S” combination. Turns out that activates the Windows Text-to-Speech feature, and suddenly my computer was reading my screenplay outloud.
It was startling to suddenly hear a robotic voice say “Fuck the fucking Feds.” Having discovered the feature, I had a little fun making it say things like “I am a pretty, pretty girl in a flouncy skirt” and “You like it rough, don’t you, Bitch?”
So, the validator’s gone live…any other official winners here?
(100 pages, not including title page…not close to finished. Still a winner.)
Yay, Tengu!
I’m not quite there yet, but closing in - 98 pages according to the validator, 96 in my private count because I don’t include the title page or an unfinished page.
Know what you mean about not being finished at 100 pages - I think I’m going to take a break soon after I win the 100 pages, and go back and try to finish the script in June.
I’m at 91 pages; I’ll go over the top tonight. Never mind that the screenplay needs some serious rewriting and is still lacking the action scenes and transitional scenes – it’s a lot closer to a real screeplay that what I had on April 1.
Okay; made 101 pages last night, and got my .pdf file of a certificate. This morning I’m feeling great.
I know it’s a silly pretend competition (no judges, nobody even reading the work, and no actual prize) but it’s been great for me. After a year of almost nothing, I’ve now got almost a complete screenplay, and the habit of writing every day. Setting a specific goal really works, apparently.
So, May will be completing the first draft (still need the action scenes and transitional scenes); June will be doing a second draft (probably lose half of the dialogue and a couple of entire characters). Then I’ll know I can finish a full-scale project; my goal for the year will be to write something commercially viable.
How’s the experience been for everybody else?