2022 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 26
One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
Zero Draft Thirty: Day 26.
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
“Screenplays don’t have to read like an instruction manual for a refrigerator. You can write them as a pleasurable read.”
— William Goldman
Today’s Inspirational Video
Joseph Campbell was born on March 26, 1904 and to celebrate his birthday, check out the documentary above featuring one of the great thinkers about Story, Creativity, and Life.
Campbell said: “Follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That’s where your life is.” As writers, we follow our bliss every time we sit down to engage our stories. In that enthusiasm, we come alive.
Today’s Loos Award winner: Jodi Lustig.
Over at the Zero Draft Thirty Facebook group, Jodi posted this update on her progress during this month’s challenge:
I’m much further along than I’d be otherwise!
There you go. The bottom line of the Zero Draft Thirty Challenge. Make progress. If you finish a draft, wonderful. That’s the ultimate goal. Yet even if you just get “further along” than you’d otherwise be, that is a success as well.
For that inspiration, the recipient of today’s Ben Hecht Award is Jodi Lustig!
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!
GET FURTHER ALONG!
TIME TO GET IT DONE!