2023 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge: Day 7

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

Zero Draft Thirty: Day 7.

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

“Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.”

— Ray Bradbury

Today’s Inspirational Video

Today’s Loos Award recipient: Shannon Moore!

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

just spent my last 5 mins alone prepping for writing tomorrow (i only have time 6–7am) and the psychological dilemma is what I have prepared for. I seem to try and avoid the dilemma, writing all the fun stuff around it. But this time, I am diving in at page 18. Jump in head first. — (it’s words on paper, not marble).

Damn straight, Shannon! The zero draft approach is all about getting words down on the page …

Rather than etched in marble.

Thanks, Shannon, for reminding us of the spirit of zero draft writing. Pound out pages. Get it down … then get it done. For that inspiration, the recipient of today’s Anita Loos Award is Shannon Moore!

Congratulations, Shannon! 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…

DIVE IN

JUMP IN HEAD FIRST

SCAMPER ON!