2022 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge: Day 5

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

Zero Draft Thirty: Day 5.

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

“First you have nothing, and then, astonishingly, after ripping out your brain and your heart, you have something.”

— T.C. Boyle

Today’s Inspirational Video

If THAT didn’t get your creative juices going, I don’t know what will!

Today’s Anita Loos Award winner: Matt Van Winkle.

On Twitter via the #ZD30SCRIPT hashtag:

No worries joining a “bit late.” There’s still four more weeks to go. “Stylized Bible camp slasher.” That’s quite a sub-genre!

I very much like the idea of using visuals to inspire the writing process. I know one professional screenwriter who creates a collage for every project, then mounts it on her wall for inspiration.

And for that inspiration, today’s recipient of the Anita Loos Award is Matt Van Winkle!

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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Zero Draft Thirty: Day 4

Now Zeronauts, Scampers, Word Warriors, and Outlaws…

THINK VISUAL!

SPREAD THE WORD!

GO WRITE!