2023 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge: Day 20

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

Zero Draft Thirty: Day 20.

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

“Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too.”

— Isabel Allende

Today’s Inspirational Video

Of course, this is an homage to Shia LaBeouf:

That little girl does an AMAZING job mimicking Shia!

Today’s Anita Loos Award winner: Jonathan Melikidse.

Jonathan is a longtime Zero Draft Thirty Facebook group member. He’s been a moderator and for several years the organizer of our monthly Scamper-A-Thons.

Sadly, the recent fires that swept through Lahaina, Hawaii destroyed Jonathan’s home. He, his wife, and two children have been scrambling ever since.

I just thought it would be a nice gesture to give Jonathan a little boost today by dubbing him the recipient of an Anita Loos Award.

You may contribute to a fundraiser organized by Jonathan’s sister for Jonathan’s family here.

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!