2018 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 16
One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
Zero Draft Thirty: Day 16.
Write an entire draft of a script in March — FADE IN. FADE OUT. Or any sort of creative goal you have in front of you.
Feature length movie screenplay. Original TV pilot. Rewrite a current project. Break a story in prep. Generate a month’s worth of story concepts.
Whatever you feel will ratchet your creative ambitions into overdrive…
DO THAT!
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Today’s Writing Quote
“Don’t write about a character. Become that character, and then write your story.”
— Ethan Canin
Today’s Inspirational Video
If you’re not familiar with the musical group OK Go, they are known for doing elaborate videos. Like really elaborate. Check out this Rube Goldberg inspired take for their song “This Too Shall Pass”.
Today’s Loos Award winner: Tracy Shefras.
I’m re-posting this from the Zero Draft Thirty Facebook group:
Hello Fellow Scribes. Day 15 of March Challenge so I thought I would turn up today to get the award. Its all about the power of intention. Today is my day!!!!! Even got my Sunday Best out to wear for the occasion.
Ok, so I am skirting around what I really want to say. Couldn’t sleep last night and as all you pen pushers know sometimes thats when we call on our pens. I was curious. Curious for many reasons.
I wanted to know why you write?
What is it that drives you?
What is it that rekindles your passion to keep getting those pages done?
As I mused around this topic I turned my question in on myself. I remembered sitting next to Scott last September at LSF and all I could do was write. I had no choice other than to be myself. It is the place I feel most me, most whole, most at ease, most of all those other things that I fail to feel in company…..PLUS…. I am so curious to understand life. It is the place that I confront my own shadows which brings forth beautiful pictures to uncomplicate life. Each time I do that, as hard as it is, something extraordinary happens…. its a bit like a healthy addiction. Why wouldn’t one delve into those dark places to find those secrets. The Universal Secrets. I found myself looking at the state of our World and caught between anger and sadness and wondered what an earth I, Me, just a little tiny human could possibly do to turn this Ship around. And the answer came. All I can do is show life through a Lens Of Hope for if we don’t have that, don’t see that, in ourselves, then it would help to perceive it outside ourselves in order to know what it looks like.
PUT HOPE ON THE BIG SCREEN
Just like Jung says…bring the shadows home so that they can go forth as light. Lights of Hope (my translation)…but you get it….I hope. So that’s it from me. Some light reading. Let me know your purpose, your reason, what are you trying to do…
Don’t you just love Einstein?
Curiosity may kill the cat, but it fuels a writer’s creativity. For that reminder — and a photo of Einstein riding a bicycle —today’s Anita Loos Award recipient is Tracy Shefras.
And now, we are heading downhill into the 2nd half of this month’s challenge. Time to put the pedal to the metal!