2022 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 7

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

Zero Draft Thirty: Day 7.

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

“Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.”

— Ray Bradbury

Today’s Inspirational Video

Today’s Loos Award recipient: @johanna_always!

On Twitter, Johanna tweeted this:

Welcome, Johanna. Allow me to re-frame your question zero draft style. Instead of, “What could go wrong?” When we adopt the zero draft approach where it’s impossible to make mistakes, thereby, freeing us up to pound out pages without a care about what they should or should not look like, the question becomes this:

What could go RIGHT?

Let’s say your nosy visitor and university application slow you down. Maybe when March 31 rolls around, you find yourself on Page 48. Guess what?

YOU ARE 48 PAGES CLOSER TO FADE OUT THAN YOU WERE TODAY!

That went RIGHT for you!

All the zero draft approach asks is to tap out something each day. A page … a paragraph … a line … something. Because something is better than nothing.

For this bit of inspiration, today’s Ben Hecht Award recipient is @johanna_always!

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!

WHAT COULD GO RIGHT?!

TIME TO GET IT DONE!