2022 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 5

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

Zero Draft Thirty: Day 5.

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

“First you have nothing, and then, astonishingly, after ripping out your brain and your heart, you have something.”

— T.C. Boyle

Today’s Inspirational Video

If THAT didn’t get your creative juices going, I don’t know what will!

Today’s Loos Award winner: Debra Montague.

Over on the Zero Draft Thirty Facebook group page, Debra posted this:

Accountability.

1–12 pages
2–17 pages
3–10 pages

I handwrite my first draft on yellow legal paper with a fountain pen. There are scratch outs as I realize what I’m writing is awful and addendums with arrows to black spots where I can scribble something I thought of which would go great (?) here.

Friends ask, “Wouldn’t you be more productive in your screenwriting software?” No. I’d spend way too much time doomscrolling or falling down Internet rabbit holes. Can’t do that with a pad of paper and a fountain pen.

Reminds me of an article I wrote: The Tactile Experience of Writing. It also reminds me of the video feature on screenwriters Karen McCullah and Kirsten “Kiwi” Smith.

They write longhand on yellow legal pads, then transfer that content to their computers.

Hey, whatever works! Prefer papyrus?

For that inspiration, today’s Ben Hecht Award recipient is Debra Montague!

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!

PLUG AWAY!

TIME TO GET IT DONE!