2022 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge: Day 20

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

Zero Draft Thirty: Day 20.

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

“Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too.”

— Isabel Allende

Today’s Inspirational Video

Of course, this is an homage to Shia LaBeouf:

That little girl does an AMAZING job mimicking Shia!

Today’s Anita Loos Award winner: Debra Montague.

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

I don’t know if this [see photo below] has been posted but this is kind of how I feel today. I’m closing in on the end of Act 2 and the beginning of Act 3 and had a huge revelation in how I’m telling this story. But do I go back and change stuff for the new revolution, or write from here on out with the new idea just so I get the thing done?

This is a tough question. Trish Curtin responded with this:

Take some notes, bullet point the bits that you want to remind yourself to revisit in the rewrite, but keep going till you get to the end. That way you won’t lose on either score.

And I echoed Trish’s advice:

I concur. You’re getting close to Fade Out. I’ll bet you’ll discover even MORE about your story by the time you get there. Plus psychologically, getting to Fade Out is a huge thing, even if you know the story will go through a substantial rewrite. Keep going! I agree with Trish!

The Zero Draft Thirty Challenge is all about forward momentum. Go! Go! Go! And nothing will slow or even stop that momentum than going back to rewrite pages.

For bringing up this important question, today’s recipient of the Anita Loos Award is Debra Montague!

Congratulations, Debra!

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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DO I GO BACK AND REWRITE? NO!!!

GO WRITE!