2023 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge: Day 13

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

Write an entire draft of a script in September — 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!

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Today’s Writing Quote

“A great script creates an irresistible narrative flow that propels a reader to an inevitable dramatic conclusion.”

— Javier Grillo-Marxuach

Today’s Inspirational Video

What a compelling story. God bless both Dad and the heart recipient. And godspeed to you, Abbey.

Today’s Anita Loos Award winner: Holly Soriano.

Over at the Zero Draft Thirty Facebook group page, Holly posted this:

Ha! My script threw a fit until I worked it. So, I was able to pump out many pages.

Sometimes, it’s like that. Your script throws a fit … you throw a fit … your script gives you fits.

Meanwhile, you struggle to make everything fit … on the page … in your story structure …

You see where this is going, don’t you?

Writing a script … even a zero draft … is all about survival of the fittest.

Therefore, it’s only fitting that the recipient of today’s Anita Loos Award is Holly Soriano!

Congratulations, Holly! Feel to print this award and post it at your writing desk for inspiration.

To learn more about Anita Loos and her illustrious career as a screenwriter, playwright, director, and journalist, go here.

For your chance to win the Anita Loos Award, one given away each day during the Challenge, post something inspiring, here on the blog, via Twitter, or the Facebook group.

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

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