2021 Zero Draft Thirty September 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 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

“Writing is the best gig in the whole business, as far as I’m concerned. You just sit down and make shit up.”

— Robert Mark Kamen

Today’s Inspirational Video

This is the famous concert at the 1966 Newport Folk Festival in which Dylan made the break from his days as a folk singer. Purists were outraged, but Dylan needed to follow his creative instinct. The rest, as they say, is history.

Why not follow YOUR creative instinct and make some history of your own!

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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 Anita Loos Award!

Today’s Anita Loos Award winner: Luke James Mackenzie.

At the Zero Draft Thirty Facebook group, Luke posed this:

Grind it out, word after word, sweat and blood congealing to form some acrid mess you can later purify to story…

Niel Gaiman said that upon reflection he couldn’t tell which sections were written while the muse was paying a visit, and which was born of his own congealed bodily fluids…

Write on!

Congealed bodily fluids. That may not be the first thing which pops to your mind when pondering the screenwriting craft, but you don’t want to have anything congealing when writing a first draft.

Grind it out. Word after word. Keep moving forward.

That’s the spirit of the Zero Draft Thirty Challenge. Because of that reminder, the recipient of today’s Anita Loos Award is Luke James MacKenzie.

Go… go… go… go…