2022 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge: Day 18

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

Zero Draft Thirty: Day 18.

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

“The secret to screenwriting is short sentences, small words, and BIG pictures.”

— William Kelley

Today’s Inspirational Video

Out of the mouths of babes and infants…

Today’s Anita Loos Award winner: Kristina Paider.

Over at the Zero Draft Thirty Facebook page group, Kristina posted this:

Page 109–FADE OUT.
The End.
Doneski.
It’s over.
Byeeeee.
I’m in shock, tbh!

Now, quickly moving to send backups everywhere before Tropical Storm Fiona lands on my doorstep.

I can’t believe I did it in 17 DAYS!!!!! WITH BREAKS. AND SNACKS.
AND BREAD THAT I BAKED MYSELF!!
Holy $#!+B@££$!!

Keep going, writers!! I have never done this before this fast. Your Fade Out is on its way.

Wonderful news! It’s getting to that time in the Challenge where more folks will be posting similar things to memorialize what they’ve accomplished. And make no mistake. To go from Fade In to Fade Out is a BFD!

So, for that inspiration, the recipient of today’s Anita Loos Award is Kristina Paider!

Congratulations, Kristina! I hope you go out and celebrate even just a little bit. You deserve it!

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…

YOUR FADE OUT IS ON THE WAY!

GO WRITE!