2023 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 4
One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
Zero Draft Thirty: Day 4.
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!
Download your very own Zero Draft Thirty calendar — designed and created by Steven Dudley — and track your daily progress!
On Twitter, use this hashtag: #ZD30SCRIPT.
Join the Zero Draft Thirty Facebook Group: Here. 4,800+ members strong.
Today’s Writing Quote
“Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper, not eternal bronze.”
— Jacques Barzun
Today’s Inspirational Video
The incomparable guitarist Django Reinhardt was the first jazz talent to emerge from Europe. What’s even more remarkable is that after suffering first and second degree burns across much of his body, leaving two fingers on his left hand paralyzed, Reinhardt overcame his injuries to develop his unique musical style. Watch the video above. Track how his left hand flies up the fingerboard and how fast his right hand moves. Astonishing skill.
What can we, as writers, created with OUR fingers? For inspiration, check out this anthology of music recorded by Reinhardt.
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: “Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay” by Otis Redding.
Today’s Dalton Trumbo Award winner: Tiffany Albright.
Whether you post something on Twitter (#ZD30SCRIPT), the Zero Draft Thirty Facebook group, or here on my blog, you have a chance to receive a Dalton Trumbo Award. Here is Tiffany’s award.
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, Tiffany!
For background on how the Zero Draft Challenge came into being and what it is, go here, here, and here.
Now Zeronauts, Scampers, Word Warriors, and Outlaws…
MAKE YOURSELF ACCOUNTABLE!
SPREAD THE WORD!
GO WRITE!