2021 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 17

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

Zero Draft Thirty: Day 17.

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!

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Today’s Writing Quote

“A movie is about an emotional struggle. The physical struggle is a manifestation of that.”

— John Gary

Today’s Inspirational Video

Dogs! Deer! Cats! Lions! Animal pals! Inspiration!

Today’s Loos Award winner: Stephen Dudley.

Over in the Zero Draft Thirty Facebook group, Stephen posted this:

To paraphrase William Blake, “Every day as a moment of eternity waiting for you.” I think this is what happens when we truly immerse ourselves in our story worlds so much we lose all sense of time. There, we can connect with the timeless part of ourselves and get into the ‘flow’ of writing. I can’t say it happens to me every day but it feels amazing when it happens.

Writing from “Fade In” to “Fade Out” in 30 days requires a consistent immersion into a story and the lives of its characters. Word by word, page by page and hour by hour, you’ll get there.

For that piece of inspiration, today’s recipient of the Anita Loos Award is Stephen Dudley!

Thanks, Stephen, again for the Zero Draft Thirty calendar!

Want an Anita Loos Award? Upload an inspirational thought or photo here, on Twitter, or the Facebook group. Aspire to inspire! The spirit of the Award!

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Final Thoughts: There are no screenwriting rules. There are conventions, patterns, paradigms. Know them, but don’t let them constrain your creativity.

— Scott Myers