2019 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge: Day 10

One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.

Zero Draft Thirty: Day 10.

Write an entire draft of a script in September — 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!

September 1: You type FADE IN / “Once upon a time…”
September 30: You type FADE OUT / “…They all lived happily ever after.”

It’s free! It’s fun! It’s Fade In to Fade Out!

For everything you need to know to join, click here.

Thanks to Stephen Dudley for creating this calendar!

On Twitter, use this hashtag: #ZD30SCRIPT.

Zero Draft Thirty Facebook Group: Here. 3,500+ members strong.

Today’s Writing Quote

“Great writing gets you meetings, great concept gets you a sale, great characters get you jobs. All three get you a career.”

— F. Scott Frazier

Today’s Inspirational Video

This is pretty cool: NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover at Namib Dune. You can literally manipulate the view to see 360 degrees. It’s got me thinking about a movie idea: An astronaut who has landed on the planet gets stranded there and has to survive for several years before…

Wait, what? That’s already been done?

Never mind.

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Each day this month, I’ll post a Zero Draft Thirty Challenge post here at Go Into The Story. And as I’ve done with every past Challenge, I will hand out an award for a notable Tweet, Facebook post, or comment here on the blog. This cycle, the winner will receive the inaugural Ben Hecht Award!

Today’s Ben Hecht Award winner: Sophia Louisa. She wrote this at the Zero Draft Thirty Facebook group:

Hey! When Scott mentioned the Hamster possibly being the group’s spirit animal, I had to look it up! The Hamster symbolizes Abundance & Opportunities, guides to move towards opportunities, having FUN and ENJOYING LIFE and LOVE and responsibility. So, yeah, I’d say it’s definitely our spirit animal!

So come on board, let’s manifest some of that abundance by creating opportunities by getting in the creative flow!! Onward!!

Time for some hamster love!

For reminding us of the symbolic importance of our Spirit Animal, the recipient of today’s Ben Hecht Award is Sophia Louisa!

Embrace your inner hamster and do a writing scamper at some point today.

Congratulations, Sophia!

For more information on Ben Hecht, go here.

For background on how the Zero Draft Challenge came into being and what it is, go here, here, and here.

And with that, we are one-third of the way through the 2019 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge!

Not too late to join in. And for those who are writing during the Challenge…

KEEP WRITING!