2019 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 19
One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
Zero Draft Thirty: Day 19.
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!
To download your very own Zero Draft Thirty calendar — designed and created by Steven Dudley — and track your daily progress.
You may download a PDF of the calendar here.
On Twitter, use this hashtag: #ZD30SCRIPT.
Zero Draft Thirty Facebook Group: Here. 3,400+ members strong.
Today’s Writing Quote
“Audiences go to movies to feel. When the movie becomes too mechanical instead of organic, audiences detach from the film.”
— Simon Kinberg
Today’s Inspirational Poem
A Spiral Notebook
By Ted Kooser
The bright wire rolls like a porpoise
in and out of the calm blue sea
of the cover, or perhaps like a sleeper
twisting in and out of his dreams,
for it could hold a record of dreams
if you wanted to buy it for that
though it seems to be meant for
more serious work, with its
college-ruled lines and its cover
that states in emphatic white letters,
5 SUBJECT NOTEBOOK. It seems
a part of growing old is no longer
to have five subjects, each
demanding an equal share of attention,
set apart by brown cardboard dividers,
but instead to stand in a drugstore
and hang on to one subject
a little too long, like this notebook
you weigh in your hands, passing
your fingers over its surfaces
as if it were some kind of wonder.
I love this poem. It’s a poem for writers. The tactile experience of writing, reflective of the magic and wonder of something emerging from nothing.
Today’s Loos Award winner: R.M. Elliott.
Over at the Zero Draft Thirty Facebook group, R.M. posted this:
I remember when we started this fun group. We had high expectations, low expectations and no expectations. The promise of a Foosball table and a margarita machine carried us through. We became Outlaws, Scampers, and partners in writing. Every 30 day challenge we sit down, strive forward and fight to get to fade out. That’s where I am today. FADE OUT. 98 pages of a story I never intended to write. My muse woke me up at 2am in LA on 3/2 and said, let’s do this. This group inspires even when you’re just sitting on the side of the trail truing to keep dust off you. A writer has to write. If we don’t we become like a surfboard that gave up on its dream of riding the waves and end up an ironing board living in a dark closet. Write on OUTLAWS. Be well, be blessed, be a surfboard.
R.M. is one of the original ZD30 posse and I believe coined the term “Outlaws” as one of a handful of monikers we in the group refer to ourselves by including Scampers and Word Warriors. Congratulations to R.M. for hitting FADE OUT. To celebrate, here is today’s Anita Loos Award. You deserve it for that bit of inspiration! And the surfboard photo!
How about you? Making progress on your #ZD30SCRIPT? Let me know how you’re doing. Here, on Twitter, or at Facebook. A little over 2 weeks left.
Onward, OUTLAWS!