2019 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge: Day 8

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

Zero Draft Thirty: Day 8.

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

“It’s really important to know not to panic, it’s all going to come together; you’ve just got to keep pushing forward.”

— Lisa Cholodenko

Today’s Inspirational Video

I love this song! Molly Tuttle singing “Take the Journey.” Here are the lyrics:

Cold, cold nights lead to cold, cold mornings
The road keeps going and it never seems to end
Lonely hearts that cry without warning
When the light ain’t shining from around the bend

Take the journey
No matter where it starts or where it ends
Take the journey
Someday you’ll make it back home again

You can try to control the weather
But the rain inside you is still gonna fall
Days of drought will merely starve you
There’s no use hiding, we gotta face it all

Take the journey
No matter where it starts or where it ends
Take the journey
Someday you’ll make it back home again

Skies are falling all around you
Who will protect you from your deepest fears?
Take the hand of the one besides you
Let the fire guide you ’til the path is clear

Take the journey
No matter where it starts or where it ends
Take the journey
Someday you’ll make it back home again
Someday you’ll make it back home

Hero’s Journey! Heroine’s Journey! Protagonist’s Journey! Writer’s Journey!

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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: Laura Bevis Glasser. A new member of the Zero Draft Thirty Facebook group, Laura graced us with this wisdom:

Messy. Confusing. Frustrating. Filled with doubt. As writers, we face ALL this EVERY time we sit down to write. But as Jacob Nordby says, “Keep at it.” Trust that there IS something “beautiful” underway.

For that encouragement, the recipient of today’s Ben Hecht Award is Laura Bevis Glasser!

Congratulations, Laura! And here’s to each of you new ZD30 Facebook members.

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.

Today marks the beginning of Week 2. Make this week count!

Onward!