2022 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 12

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

“A bad script written is still better than an amazing one that isn’t.”

— Jon Boyer

Today’s Inspirational Video

Kid President laying down a pep talk for us!

Today’s Loos Award winner: Sofi Odelle.

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

Have you ever worked on an idea for so long that you give up and decide it’s not do-able?

I broke story last night on a script I’ve been trying to crack for 16 years. I’m hoping I can have it done by the end of the week.

Sixteen years. That is some persistence. Sometimes stories just lay out for us. Other times, it’s a real struggle.

That term: breaking story. Nothing about that sounds easy. It sounds like it’s a struggle. You have to break something, but also find something in the process.

As a tribute to her persistence and to finding the story as she “broke” it, the recipient of today’s Ben Hecht Award is Sofi Odelle!

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!

BREAK STORY!

TIME TO GET IT DONE!