2019 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge: Day 7

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

Zero Draft Thirty: Day 7.

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!

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Today’s Writing Quote

“I think it’s always easier to revise a script, even a truly awful one, than face the tyranny of the blank page.”

— Stan Chervin

Today’s Inspirational Video

“The Journey”

By Mary Oliver

One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice — 
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
‘Mend my life!’
each voice cried.
But you didn’t stop.

You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations — 
though their melancholy
was terrible. It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.

But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice,
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do — 
determined to save
the only life you could save.

Friends, we are all on a journey. It’s called Life. For those of us who are called to the Creative Life, we have a unique challenge… to abide the voices of doubt as well as lean into the void of the empty page.

It’s not an easy path. But as long as it is our path, those are the steps we must take.

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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: Eva Acharya. For this tweet.

Yoga. Coffee. Zero Draft. The trifecta of creative writing. Here’s to today’s Ben Hecht Award recipient: Eva Acharya.

Congratulations, Eva!

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.

It’s Day 7 which means one week in. How many pages have YOU cranked out this week? Three plus weeks to go until September 30.

Make today count!

Onward!