2022 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 6

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

Zero Draft Thirty: Day 6.

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

“Almost any story becomes a visual enactment of the psychological dilemmas faced by the lead character.”

— Arash Amel

Today’s Inspirational Video

From The Lonely Island:

Hey, why not YOU! Finish that script! Sell it for high-six figures! It happened to me! It could happen to you!

Today’s Loos Award winner: Peter Field.

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

I’ve got a whopping 11 pages to date!

I imagine Peter is posting this tongue-in-cheek, however, the fact is…

11 pages are more than 0 pages!!!

In fact, according to my understanding of New Math, 11 pages are…

11 more pages than 0 pages!!!

Peter, here’s some more math: If you can up your daily output from 2 pages to 4 pages, you should be able to get halfway through this draft by March 31.

And if you can up your daily output to 6 pages per day, you should be able to finish a zero draft in that time.

Writing tip: Don’t edit what you’ve written. Just keep going forward. You can always go back and edit after you get through the draft. Keep your focus on pounding out pages.

For that bit of inspiration, today’s Ben Hecht Award recipient is Peter Field!

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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SPREAD THE WORD!

GO WRITE!

POUND OUT PAGES!

EMBRACE NEW MATH!

TIME TO GET IT DONE!