2023 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 24

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

Zero Draft Thirty: Day 24.

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

“Just have good characters and good scenes and something that plays.”

— Billy Wilder

Today’s Inspirational Video

The great L.A. Dodger broadcaster Vin Scully calls this epic home run by Kirk Gibson. Amazing moment. Amazing job by Scully.

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: “When Something is Wrong With My Baby” by Sam and Dave.

Today’s Dalton Trumbo Award winner: Andale Mi Amor.

Over at the Zero Draft Thirty Facebook group during a recent Twenty-Four Hour Writing Scamper-A-Thon, Andale wrote this:

Good Morning Good Afternoon Good Evening to all of you! Here we are meeting up yet again for another Scamper — during March Madness no less, or as some of you like to call it, our Zero Draft 30 March Challenge! Thirty-one days of writing for all who dare to put pen to paper, fingers to keyboard, and feet to the fire. Let’s work together like that great group in the picture below — all working happily toward a common goal: A First Draft!

She accompanied this wonderful sentiment with this photo:

I immediately recognized this as a shot from the 1963 comedy It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.

I remember seeing this in theaters as a kid. For the writing inspiration and a trip down memory lane, the recipient of today’s Dalton Trumbo Award is Andale Mi Amor!

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, Andale!

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…

FINGERS TO KEYBOARD AND FEET TO THE FIRE!

POUND OUT PAGES!

SCAMPER ON!