2022 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge: Day 2
One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
Zero Draft Thirty: Day 2.
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 word after a word after a word is power.”
— Margaret Atwood
Today’s Inspirational Video
This is one of the most amazing moments in contemporary music history. Bob Dylan was a folk music icon. Then he went on tour with a new act. Backed by musicians who would become known as The Band, Dylan introduced his rock and roll persona. Many fans did NOT like his new direction.
Here he is in England. Seeing Dylan warming up with an electric guitar and his backup band, a member of the audience shouts out:
“Judas!”
With zero hesitation, Dylan responds:
“I don’t believe you.”
That is precisely what Judas was saying to Jesus: I don’t believe you are the Messiah.
Dylan follows up with:
“You’re a liar.”
Again, echoing the sentiment of what Judas was saying to Jesus.
It was an electric moment of brilliance by Dylan in response to the heckler. Then rounded out by Dylan telling the band:
“Play it fucking loud.”
Dylan was not going to be typecast as a folk musician. He knew his voice. He knew what he wanted to do and say. And he did it.
We can take a lesson from Dylan. Find your OWN voice. And give EXPRESSION to it.
Here is the original recording of “Like a Rolling Stone” which is arguably the greatest rock song of all time.
Today’s Anita Loos Award winner: Chris Brennan.
Over at the Zero Draft Thirty Facebook group, Chris posted this:
Day 1… Exciting stuff! I’d like to be more active on this page this month than I have previously. So with that in mind, I’d like to share a little trick that I use that helps me kick off a new day of writing:
So, when I finish up the last scene for the day, what I like to do is write up a super quick draft of the next scene.
Quality isn’t the goal here. It’s just about getting the bones of the next page or so together. It can take an extra 5-minutes (or less).
That way, the next day, I don’t sit down to write, I sit down to read what I’ve written. It all seems pretty good until I come to this god-awful last page. And that’s when I start correcting it.
So the trick is to kick off the next day editing a [shit] page, rather than facing a blank screen and a blinking cursor.
Anyway, this works for me… Hopefully, it could help you too.
Good luck, guys. And have fun!
Terrific advice. For that writing tip, today’s Anita Loos Award recipient is Chris Brennan!
Congratulations, Chris!
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.
Now Zeronauts, Scampers, Word Warriors, and Outlaws…
JUMP IN!
SPREAD THE WORD!
GO WRITE!