2023 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge: Day 6

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

Zero Draft Thirty: Day 6.

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

“Almost any story becomes a visual enactment of the psychological dilemmas faced by the lead character.”

— Arash Amel

Today’s Inspirational Video

From The Lonely Island:

Hey, why not YOU! Finish that script! Sell it for high-six figures! It happened to me! It could happen to you!

Today’s Anita Loos Award winner: Isabelle Dornic!

On Twitter — Hell, yeah, that’s what I still call it! — Isabelle tweeted — Hell, yeah, I still call that that! — this.

Two things.

First, go for a walk. Nothing better to get in sync with your story than you, your thoughts, and the world around you.

Second, I’m all over this: Meet your characters. Feel their emotions. Discover their stories. OMG, it would be so great if someone were to write a book about character-driven screenwriting and storytelling …

After all, it’s their story (the characters). They know it better than you do. Immerse yourself in their lives. Discover their stories. Then when you sit down to write another scene in your zero draft …

Don’t think. Feel.

That’s wisdom bestowed on us by the late great Ray Bradbury.

OMG, it would be so great if some blogger somewhere did a series called Sundays with Ray Bradbury’s “Zen in the Art of Writing”.

Anyway …

In gratitude for reminding us about the importance of walking and engaging our characters, the recipient of today’s Anita Loos Award is Isabelle Dornic!

Congratulations, Isabelle! 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…

WALK!

DISCOVER!

SCAMPER!