2022 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge: Day 8

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

Zero Draft Thirty: Day 8.

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

“I sit in the dark and wait for a little flame to appear at the end of my pencil.”

— Billy Collins

Today’s Inspirational Video

Of course, the Zero Draft Thirty community has our very own inspirational critter: Scamper the Hamster.

Today we welcome another inspirational critter: Motivational Lizard.

Hey, there friend. I know you’ve been having some troubles lately. Be the person I know you can be. Don’t leave anything up to chance. I believe in you, pal. We ALL believe in you. UR a winner, kiddo. Don’t you ever forget.

Today’s Anita Loos Award winner: Alexis Howell-Jones.

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

However fast or slow you’re going, just keep going. Sometimes we don’t get things done as fast as we’d like — and on such days I try to remember a lovely phrase, “Even slow progress is progress”

So keep up the good work, get your butt in the chair and have fun

And underscored that with this GIF:

Yep. Writing is like that sometimes. The wall is the script. We’re the cat. And it feels like all the forces of nature, including gravity, are against. But like Alexis says: Just keep going.

For that inspiration, today’s recipient of the Anita Loos Award is Alexis Howell-Jones!

Congratulations, Alexis!

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…

JUST KEEP GOING!

SPREAD THE WORD!

GO WRITE!