2021 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge: Day 20

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

Zero Draft Thirty: Day 20.

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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On Twitter, use this hashtag: #ZD30SCRIPT.

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Today’s Writing Quote

“That’s our job, to spark curiosity and emotion from an audience, for them to discover what’s going on in their own heads.”

— Seth Lochhead

Today’s Inspirational Video

The Zero Draft approach exists for people who are caught up in the self-perception they are Procrastinators and/or Perfectionists. If you commit to one goal with a first draft — Get the damn thing done! — you can change your mindset into one of Productivity.

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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: Mark Mackey.

Over at the Zero Draft Thirty Facebook group, Mark posted this:

Completed a 120 page screenplay in nineteen days.

That’s the Zero Draft Thirty Challenge spirit! It may sound incredible, but using my superior math skills, that means Mark wrote on average 6.31 pages per day. That’s not outlandish, basically three or four scenes in day. Amazing, isn’t it, when you break down the story into bite-sized bits.

For that inspiration, today’s recipient of the Anita Loos Award is Mark Mackey!

Try it today. Write six pages. Three scenes. See if you can duplicate that tomorrow. And the next day. Suddenly, you’ve pounded out twenty pages. It’s amazing what you can accomplish if you press yourself.

If Mark can do it, YOU can do it!

Write!