2023 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 21

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

Zero Draft Thirty: Day 21.

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

“Character IS plot. Character IS story.”

— Eleanor Perry

Today’s Inspirational Video

You. Can. Do. It.

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: “Woman to Woman” by Shirley Brown

Today’s Dalton Trumbo Award winner: Jenny Lynn!

Over at the Zero Draft Thirty Facebook group, Jenny posted this.

Hi All. Frankie is not only a source of unconditional love and entertainment but also inspiration. She was in one of her many boxes playing with a couple of her favorite toys and reminded me that even when we feel that we have put ourselves (or our characters) in a box, we (or our characters) can always play outside the box. Frankie gave me a fresh perspective on where I was stuck on my current work in progress. Hope you enjoy her inspiration and entertainment too. Here’s to a productive and fun week of writing outside the box!

And who might this mysterious Frankie be?

Cat in a box! Here’s my cat Sundance in a box!

As Jenny says, if we feel boxed in creatively … we can play outside the box. That’s what a zero draft is about. The freedom to play. Setting aside our inner critic and put words down onto the page. For that inspiration, the recipient of today’s Dalton Trumbo Award is Jenny Lynn!

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.

Congratulation, Jenny!

For background on how the Zero Draft Challenge came into being and what it is, go here, here, and here.

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Now Zeronauts, Scamperers, Word Warriors, and Outlaws…

WRITE OUTSIDE THE BOX!

POUND OUT PAGES!

SCAMPER ON!