2023 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge: Day 26

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

Zero Draft Thirty: Day 26.

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

“Screenplays don’t have to read like an instruction manual for a refrigerator. You can write them as a pleasurable read.”

— William Goldman

Today’s Inspirational Video

Check out the documentary above featuring one of the great thinkers about Story, Creativity, and Life.

Campbell said: “Follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That’s where your life is.” As writers, we follow our bliss every time we sit down to engage our stories. In that enthusiasm, we come alive.

Today’s Anita Loos Award winner: Ricardo Varma.

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

ZD30 has been a powerful creativity starter for years now. Nice to see that it is still going strong! I have decided to join you guys in the last week to work on a short story. Good luck!

I love the spirit! Just a few days left. Jump in. Pound out a short story.

Therefore, the recipient of today’s Anita Loos Award is Ricardo Varma!

Congratulations, Ricardo! 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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SCAMPER ON!