2023 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge: Day 9

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

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

“The point is getting it all down, even if it’s crap or incomprehensible to anyone but you.”

— Warren Ellis

Today’s Inspirational Video

A video produced by the Writers Guild Foundation called Words:

It was released in 1987, the year I joined the Guild. I remember seeing it several times and it inspired me as I pushed myself to learn the craft.

Today’s Anita Loos Award winner: Wendy Propps Casto!

Over at the Zero Draft Thirty Facebook group page, Wendy posted a series of inspirational quotes:

“Deep and simple are far, far more important than shallow and complicated and fancy.” ~Fred Rogers

“The big question is whether you’re going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.” ~Joseph Campbell

“Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.” ~Ray Bradbury

“Once you crack the script, everything else follows.” ~Ridley Scott

“Do not be told something is impossible. There is always a way.” ~Robert Rodriguez

“Every scene should be able to answer three questions: Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don’t get it? Why now?” ~David Mamet

“As a writer, whenever we take up a new story, we embark on a creative journey, leaving our ordinary world and venturing into the extraordinary world of our imagination.” ~Scott Myers

Hey, look at that last one! A rare sighting of me being quoted! Know what? In my humble opinion, that’s a really good quote.

In gratitude for these many words of inspiration, the recipient of today’s Anita Loos Award goes to Wendy Propps Casto!

Congratulations, Wendy! 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…

EMBARK!

VENTURE!

SCAMPER!