2019 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge: Day 20

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

Zero Draft Thirty: Day 20.

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.

Today’s Writing Quote

“That’s our job, to spark curiosity and emotion from an audience, for them to discover what’s going on in their own heads.”

— Seth Lochhead

Today’s Inspirational Video

The Zero Draft approach exists for people who are caught up in the self-perception they are Procrastinators and/or Perfectionists. If you commit to one goal with a first draft — Get the damn thing done! — you can change your mindset into one of Productivity.

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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: Kathleen Wentworth who posted this in the Zero Draft Thirty Facebook group page:

Sometimes in the slog of writing a draft, you just gotta let yourself laugh. And this made me laugh! For providing us a chance to have a bit of fun here on Day 20 of The Challenge, today’s recipient of the Ben Hecht Award is Kathleen Wentworth!

Know what? Why not take a break today for 5 minutes, Google “funny videos,” and see if you can find something to give you a few yucks.

Then get right back to writing!

We are officially 2/3rd’s of the way through The Challenge.

Onward!