2023 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge: Day 5

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

Zero Draft Thirty: Day 5.

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

“First you have nothing, and then, astonishingly, after ripping out your brain and your heart, you have something.”

— T.C. Boyle

Today’s Inspirational Video

If THAT didn’t get your creative juices going, I don’t know what will!

Today’s Anita Loos Award winner: Phoenix Black.

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

Have this taped to my desk. Starting today at page 19. Today have to get them from war into civilian life.

Accompanied by this photo:

At the start of every university course I teach, we discuss this saying: Follow your bliss. Indeed, it was the first words I wrote on the whiteboard in my office, the day I began my gig at DePaul University in September 2016.

What is bliss? I describe it this way to my students.

“Find that part of you which enlivens you. Which brings you joy. Which is unique to who you are. Something you want to share with the world. Some aspect of who you are you are passionate to learn and grow and develop. More than likely, that is your bliss. Avocation or vocation, if you discover it … follow it. For that is the path upon which you will discover your authentic life.”

No matter what form it takes, your bliss is creative.

Share it with others.

That your joy may inspire others.

For that inspiration, the recipient of today’s Anita Loos Award is Phoenix Black!

Congratulations, Phoenix! 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…

CREATIVITY!

BLISS!

SCAMPER ON!