2022 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge: Day 13

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

Write an entire draft of a script in September — 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!

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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

What a compelling story. God bless both Dad and the heart recipient. And godspeed to you, Abbey.

Today’s Anita Loos Award winner: Mark Mackey.

Over at the Zero Draft Thirty Facebook group page, Mark posted this short but sweet comment:

Day twelve wrote up to page 103.

Yeah, boy! That’s what we’re talking about! Time to celebrate!

If you keep writing, day after day, you can get to Fade Out. For that inspiration, the recipient of today’s Anita Loos Award is Mark Mackey!

Congratulations, Mark!

To learn more about Anita Loos and her illustrious career as a screenwriter, playwright, director, and journalist, go here.

For your chance to win the Anita Loos 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 to be and what it is, go here, here, and here.

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Now Zeronauts, Scampers, Word Warriors, and Outlaws…

KEEP AT IT!

SPREAD THE WORD!

GO WRITE!