2023 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge: Day 17

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

Zero Draft Thirty: Day 17.

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 movie is about an emotional struggle. The physical struggle is a manifestation of that.”

— John Gary

Today’s Inspirational Video

What if a movie reviewer took LSD before screening some movies? That’s the premise of this SNL skit.

Today’s Anita Loos Award winner: Mark Mackey!

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

Finished on page 107 on day eleven.

There you go! Fade In. Fade Out. My suggestion to Mark:

Way to go, Mark! I recommend you set that project aside for a few weeks. Why not use the last two weeks of this Challenge to start breaking a new story?

It’s a great way to make use of the time and create some distance between the writer and the just-finished script. You need time to develop a “fresh” set of eyeballs to give the script an objective read.

For the Fade Out accomplishment, the recipient of today’s Anita Loos Award is Mark Mackey!

Congratulations, Ingrid! 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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Now Zeronauts, Scamperers, Word Warriors, and Outlaws…

SCAMPER ON!