2022 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 25
One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
Zero Draft Thirty: Day 25.
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 great script creates an irresistible narrative flow that propels a reader to an inevitable dramatic conclusion.”
— Javier Grillo-Marxuach
Today’s Inspirational Video
This amazing performance may have been the moment where Janis Joplin became JANIS JOPLIN. She totally grabbed the audience and would not let them go. An object lesson for our screenwriting.
Today’s Loos Award winner: Angela M Grout.
Over at the Zero Draft Thirty Facebook group during a recent Twenty-Four Hour Writing Scamper-A-Thon, Angela posted this:
Many writing sessions for me begin with a list of what I want to accomplish, then I number that list with a priority. Sometimes that list is created as I put the pen down so I know where to begin again. Other times that list simply consists of purging everything I need to get done that day so when I write I don’t have to hold space for the endless errands that need to be done.
One of my favorite free writes is grabbing a prompt and allowing my muse, and my soul the pen to flow with a timed warmup. Reading the words after is a surprise for me too.
Reminds me of a Writing and the Creative Life article: Why You Should Write Three Pages of Garbage Every Morning. The main point:
Freewriting forces you to keep moving forward, keep creating, without a thought given to quality.
For that inspiration, the recipient of today’s Ben Hecht Award is Angela M Grout!
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 (#ZD30SCRIPT), 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!
TIME TO GET IT DONE!