2022 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge: Day 15

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

Zero Draft Thirty: Day 15.

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

“It’s the words, it always gets back to the words…”

— Julius Epstein

Today’s Inspirational Video

There has never been a late night talk show host who could match the comic timing and sensibilities of Johnny Carson. Witness this classic exchange with Burt Reynolds. This is only a snippet. It went on for several more minutes. But notice how Carson tops the gag at the end of the clip. It’s also a good object lesson about the power of visual storytelling. No dialogue between the pair, yet tons of laughs. I find that inspiring!

Today’s Anita Loos Award winner: Rob Hofmann.

Way back on September 1, Rob posted this in the Zero Draft Thirty Facebook group page:

My personal FADE IN: Today 9/1/22, and every day for the next 29 days, I will write, scream, scratch, and claw my way to complete a first DRAFT of a story that has been haunting me for more than 20 years until FADE OUT on 9/30/22

Seeing as today is the midway point in the Challenge, use Rob’s passion exhibited in his words as a chance to check in with your journey. Where were you on September 1? Where are you on September 15? Where will you be on September 30? How do you there? Writing every day. Even if you have to “scream, scratch, and claw” your way to Fade Out.

Today’s recipient of the Anita Loos Award is Rob Hofmann!

Congratulations, Rob!

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…

SCREAM, SCRATCH, AND CLAW!

SPREAD THE WORD!

GO WRITE!