2018 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 6
One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
Zero Draft Thirty: Day 6.
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
“One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tell myself that I’m going to do my five or 10 pages no matter what, and that I can always tear them up the following morning if I want. I’ll have lost nothing — writing and tearing up five pages would leave me no further behind than if I took the day off.”
— Lawrence Block
Permission to write badly… a basic tenet of the zero draft approach.
Today’s Inspirational Video
From The Lonely Island:
Awesome. Video.
Today’s Loos Award winner: Trish Curtin.
Who is this sage Trish quoted over in the Zero Draft Thirty Facebook group? Such profound wisdom which aligns so clearly with the spirit of the zero draft approach to writing and reminds me of what I tell people all the time…
Oh, wait. That is me. From one of my 12 free Go Into The Story eBooks which Trish and Clay Mitchell edited. Thought it looked familiar…
In any event because Trish reminded us that the single most important goal of a first (or zero) draft is to get the damn thing done, she is the recipient of today’s Anita Loos Award. Congratulations, Trish!
Want an Anita Loos Award? Upload an inspirational thought or photo here, on Twitter, or in the Facebook group. Aspire to inspire! That’s the spirit of the Award!
Here’s to a great “Get the damned thing done” writing day for all of us!