2021 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge: Day 24
One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
Zero Draft Thirty: Day 24. One week left!
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
“My best writing has been on the scripts I wrote as suicide notes to the industry — sort of, ‘Fuck you, guys, I’m outta here.”
— Marc Norman
Today’s Inspirational Video
One of the most memorable moments in baseball’s World Series history. Game 7, Pittsburgh Pirates vs. the mighty New York Yankees, tied 9–9 in the bottom of the 9th inning, Bill Mazeroski steps up to the plate. I saw this as 7 year old boy and can still remember it to this day.
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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: Jonathan Melikidse.
For almost as long as there has been a Zero Draft Thirty Facebook group, Jonathan has organized our monthly Twenty Four Hour Writing Scamper-A-Thon.
Jonathan is also one of the site’s super-moderators. And unlike so many of the writers I know virtually through social media, Jonathan and I actually met in Santa Monica after I had done a Quest weekend workshop.
For all his hard work in support of the Zero Draft Thirty Facebook group ans well as his own creative journey (currently working on making an original film which he wrote), today’s recipient of the Anita Loos Award is Jonathan Melikidse!
Keep on keeping on, folks. Almost to the end of the Challenge! Time to put the pedal to the metal!