2024 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge: Day 3

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

Zero Draft Thirty: Day 3.

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

“Write like you’re on deadline, even if nobody is waiting for your work.”

— Elizabeth Berger

Today’s Inspirational Video

“Dreams without goals are just dreams. Have goals. Life goals, yearly goals, monthly goals, daily goals. I try to give myself a goal every day. Understand that to achieve these goals, you must apply discipline and consistency.”

Damn. Straight. And in that spirit…

Today’s Anita Loos Award recipient: Martina Cook.

Over at the Zero Draft Thirty Facebook group page, Martina posted this.

Martina’s questions spawned quite a discussion with several writers chiming in that they, too, embrace a zero draft-like approach to their writing as they find it freeing. Here is my response:

The Zero Draft Thirty Challenge is an excellent opportunity to explore a freer way of writing. It’s not too late to join in dozens of other writers pounding out pages this month.

For inspiring an interesting conversation, today’s recipient of the Anita Loos Award is Martina Cook!

Congratulations, Martina! I trust you’ll print the award and post in a primes spot at your writer’s desk.

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.

Zero Draft Thirty: Day 1
Zero Draft Thirty: Day 2

Now Zeronauts …

BE FREE!

LIBERATE YOURSELF!

WRITE PAGES!

The Challenge is free and if you feel like it, check out the Zero Draft Thirty Facebook group page. It’s a private group, but it’s easy to join, just answer a few questions.