2023 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 5
One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
Zero Draft Thirty: Day 5.
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
“First you have nothing, and then, astonishingly, after ripping out your brain and your heart, you have something.”
— T.C. Boyle
Today’s Inspirational Video
If THAT didn’t get your creative juices going, I don’t know what will!
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: “Who’s Making Love” by Johnny Taylor.
Today’s Dalton Trumbo Award winner: Roo Black!
Over in the Zero Draft Thirty Facebook group, Roo posted this:
Anyone else need a reminder to turn off the inner critic? The zero draft is a judgment free zone! The inner critic works from the left brain, and that’s not what you need right now. If you’re going to write a script in 30 days (and you are!) you mostly want the right brain engaged, that’s where creativity comes from. There’s going to be plenty of time in future drafts to let the inner critic have its say, but that time is not now. We got this, Zeronauts!
“The zero draft is a judgment free zone!” Damn straight. Productivity over Perfectionism. In gratitude for that reminder, the recipient of today’s Dalton Trumbo Award is Roo Black!
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, Roo!
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…
TURN OFF YOUR INNER CRITIC!
SPREAD THE WORD!
GO WRITE!