2024 Zero Draft Thirty March 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!

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

“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 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: The Four Tops, “Bernadette” (1967).

Today’s Dalton Trumbo Award winner: Yvonne Paulin.

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

Now THAT’S a process. And it works for Yvonne. I’ve known her for nearly a decade. Yvonne was selected to participate in the 2015 Black List Mini-Lab in New York City. Since that time, she’s written a bunch of screenplays and achieved many accomplishments.

As I always say, “There’s no right way to write. Each writer needs to find their own way.”

Yvonne has found hers. That is an inspiration to all writers to discover what works best for them.

Therefore, I’m happy to announce that today’s recipient of the Dalton Trumbo Award is Yvonne Paulin!

Congratulations, Yvonne!

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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