2022 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 10

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

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!

As for me, I will spend the month co-writing a feature film spec script. It’s based on a story concept I came up with late last year and it may be the strongest comedy idea I’ve ever worked on. My writing partner and I have spent the first two months of the year on character development and breaking story. Now it’s time to jam out a first draft!

If you join the Challenge, I will be right there with you writing each and every day in March! Let’s do this together!

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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

It’s Michael Winslow. A microphone. And with just his vocal stylings, he becomes Jimi Hendrix.

And then the REAL thing!

Today’s Loos Award winner: Tully Archer.

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

Inspired to pieces by Debra Montague , here’s my Weekly Accountability post:

I made an outline, that is by no means complete, BUT, I showed it to another human being and it made sense to her. That’s huge, as it’s a very weird and cerebral idea.

It’s called “Non Serviam” and it’s a horror feature.

Yay, DOING STUFF!

We already honored Debra Montague and so she gets an assist on this one by suggesting a Weekly Accountability post. That’s very much in the spirit of the Zero Draft Thirty Challenge. In effect, all this is is an external structure which creates a sense of responsibility. Write every day. Track weekly process. Go public with how you’re doing. The more public you go with your writing progress, the more progress you make in private.

For that bit of inspiration, the recipient of today’s Ben Hecht Award is Tully Archer!

For your chance to win the Ben Hecht Award, one given away each day during the Challenge, post something inspiring, here on the blog, via Twitter, or the Facebook group.

For background on how the Zero Draft Challenge came into being and what it is, go here, here, and here.

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Now Zeronauts, Scampers, Word Warriors, and Outlaws…

SPREAD THE WORD!

GO WRITE!

POUND OUT PAGES!

MAKE YOURSELF ACCOUNTABLE!

TIME TO GET IT DONE!