2023 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 12
One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
Write an entire draft of a script in March — 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!
As for me, I will spend the month rewriting a feature film spec script.
If you join the Challenge, I will be right there with you writing each and every day in March! Let’s do this together!
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Today’s Writing Quote
“A bad script written is still better than an amazing one that isn’t.”
— Jon Boyer
Today’s Inspirational Video
Kid President laying down a pep talk for us!
Today’s Stax Music Video
I have dedicated the 2023 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge as Stax Music Month. Part of that decision is to honor one of the greatest record companies of all time (check out their history here). But mostly, it’s an excuse to feature awesome R&B and soul music to get you out of your chair, dance around the room for 5 minutes, churn up your creative juices, then sit right back down and write your ass off.
Today’s featured song: “Bring it on Home to Me” by Eddie Floyd.
Today’s Dalton Trumbo Award winner: Wyatt Lamoureux!
Over in the Zero Draft Thirty Facebook group, Wyatt wrote this:
Day 1: pondered and rejected the original idea.
Day 2: pondered new idea from old outline. Wrote scene heading. Pondered some more.
Day 3: Half a page before the day intrudes. Sigh.
The Zero Draft Thirty community chimed in with supportive comments.
Roo Black: Keep at it, you can do it!
CK Love: Great start! Onward!
Sharlie Blanchard: Go for it!! Pondering is great. Opening that creative window — letting yourself imagine and play with your ideas. You’ve got a start. We’re rooting for you.
Wyatt, let me do my little part in providing a boost to your creative energy. The recipient of today’s Dalton Trumbo Award is Wyatt Lamoureux!
To learn more about Dalton Trumbo and his fascinating career as a screenwriter, go here.
For your chance to win the Dalton Trumbo Award, one given away each day during the Challenge, post something inspiring, here on the blog, via Twitter, or the Facebook group.
Congratulations, Wyatt!
For background on how the Zero Draft Challenge came into being and what it is, go here, here, and here.
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Day 8
Day 9
Day 10
Day 11
Now Zeronauts, Scamperers, Word Warriors, and Outlaws…
KEEP AT IT!
POUND OUT PAGES!
SCAMPER ON!