2024 Zero Draft Thirty March 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!

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

“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 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: Diana Ross and the Supremes, “Someday We’ll Be Together” (1969)

Today’s Dalton Trumbo Award winner: Barbara Carson Todd.

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

That is very much in the spirit of writing a zero draft:

Not great, but okay for now.

They key is to “Get it down.” That’s how you “Get it done.”

For that reminder, the recipient of today’s Dalton Trumbo Award is Barbara Carson Todd.

Congratulations, Barbara!

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.

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Now Zeronauts, Scamperers, Word Warriors, and Outlaws…

SPREAD THE WORD!

GO WRITE!

GET IT DOWN! GET IT DONE!