2024 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 4

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

Zero Draft Thirty: Day 4.

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!

As for me, I will spend the month rewriting a feature film spec script. It’s based on a story concept I came up with late last year and it may be the strongest comedy idea I’ve ever worked on. Now to take it to the next level.

If you join the Challenge, I will be right there with you writing each and every day in March! Let’s do this together!

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Today’s Writing Quote

“Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper, not eternal bronze.”

— Jacques Barzun

Today’s Inspirational Video

This video has 10M views. Watch it and let it inspire you!

Takeaway from the video: “You have to make the bad things first, so you know how to make things good.”

Today’s Motown Music Video

I have dedicated the 2024 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge as Motown Music Month. Part of that decision is to honor one of the greatest record companies of all time (check out their history here). But mostly, it’s an excuse to feature awesome music to get you out of your chair, dance around the room for 5 minutes, churn up your creative juices, then sit right back down and write your ass off.

Today’s featured song: Mary Wells, “My Guy” (1964)

Trivia: The Beatles stated that Wells was their favorite American singer and she was invited to open for the group during their tour of the United Kingdom, thus making her the first Motown star to perform in the UK.

Today’s Dalton Trumbo Award recipient: Juli Crockett

On Day 1 of the Challenge, Juli simply posted this in the Zero Draft Thirty Facebook group: “Let goooooooooooooooo!!!” Along with this GIF of everyone’s favorite novel-writing beagle: Snoopy!

Okay, so Snoopy is a dog, not a hamster like our spirit animal Scamper.

But just look at Snoopy go! Pounding out pages. Think he gets caught up in perfectionism? No way! Clearly, the dog exhibits a dogged zero draft approach to writing befitting a real dawg.

Because of that, today’s recipient of the Dalton Trumbo Award is Juli Crockett!

To learn more about Dalton Trumbo and his fascinating career as a screenwriter, go here.

For your chance to win the Dalton Trumbo 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 into being and what it is, go here, here, and here.

Zero Draft Thirty: Day 1
Zero Draft Thirty: Day 2
Zero Draft Thirty: Day 3

Now Zeronauts, Scamperers, Word Warriors, and Outlaws…

SPREAD THE WORD!

GO WRITE!

LET’S GOOOOOOOOO!!!