2023 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 27
One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
Zero Draft Thirty: Day 27.
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
“Writing is like driving in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”
— E.L. Doctorow
Today’s Inspirational Video
I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me.
A day may come when the courage of men fails,
when we forsake our friends
and break all bonds of fellowship,
but it is not this day.
An hour of wolves and shattered shields,
when the age of men comes crashing down,
but it is not this day!
This day we fight!!
By all that you hold dear on this good Earth,
I bid you stand, Men of the West!!!
And my fellow Zeronauts, this day… WE WRITE!!!
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: “Whatcha See is Whatcha Get” by The Dramatics
Today’s Dalton Trumbo Award winner: Mark Mackey!
Over at the Zero Draft Thirty Facebook group, Mark posted this a few weeks back. Gave me a chuckle.
Oh, yeah. Plot twists. How great they feel when they work. For that fun bit of business, the recipient of today’s Dalton Trumbo Award is Mark Mackey!
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, Mark!
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 26
Now Zeronauts, Scamperers, Word Warriors, and Outlaws…
FIVE DAYS AND COUNTING!
POUND OUT PAGES!
SCAMPER ON!