2021 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge: Day 10
One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
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!
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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
I’m sure you’ve seen this video from TwinsthenewTrend, a couple of young men from northern Indiana. They listen to songs for the first time and react. And boy, do they react when Phil Collins “drops a beat’ at around the 3:30 minute mark of the song In the Air Tonight.
Zero Draft Thirty: Day 1
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Zero Draft Thirty: Day 7
Zero Draft Thirty: Day 8
Zero Draft Thirty: Day 9
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 Anita Loos Award!
Today’s Anita Loos Award winner: Bitch Pack!
Not sure when BP began this draft. Is it possible to pound out a zero draft in nine days? Heck, it’s possible to do it in FOUR! That’s what Michael Arndt did with Little Miss Sunshine.
On Tuesday, May 23, 2000, at 4:27 p.m., I sat down to write LMS [Little Miss Sunshine]. I wrote twelve pages the first day, thirty-seven pages the second, and — pulling an all-nighter — fifty-four pages on the third day. I finished the first draft at 9:56 a.m. on Friday, May 26. Then I spent a year rewriting it.
Whether it takes four days … nine days … thirty days … whatever amount of days … the goal is still and always the same: Get the damn thing done!
For that Twitter inspiration, the recipient of today’s Anita Loos Award is Bitch Pack!
Just keep repeating this mantra: Get the damn thing done! Get the damn thing done! Get the damn thing done! Get the damn thing…
Onward to Fade Out!