2022 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge: Day 16

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

Zero Draft Thirty: Day 16.

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

“Don’t write about a character. Become that character, and then write your story.”

— Ethan Canin

Today’s Inspirational Video

If you’re not familiar with the musical group OK Go, they are known for doing elaborate videos. Like really elaborate. Check out this Rube Goldberg inspired take for their song “This Too Shall Pass”.

Today’s Anita Loos Award winner: Tyler Tarlton.

Over at the Zero Draft Thirty Facebook Group page, Tyler posted this:

Got 73 pages done so far!

Think about that. 73 pages. Because Tyler and scads of other writers have taken up this month’s Challenge, they have made fantastic progress in their projects.

But Tyler’s not finished … yet. To give him a boost toward Fade Out, the recipient of today’s Anita Loos Award is Tyler Tarlton!

Congratulations, Tyler!

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…

THINK OF YOUR PAGES DONE SO FAR … NOW GO FARTHER!

SPREAD THE WORD!

GO WRITE!