2024 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 9
One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
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!
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
“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 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 Spinners, “It’s a Shame” (1970).
Today’s Dalton Trumbo Award winner: Lauren Taylor Bishop.
Over at the Zero Draft Thirty Facebook Group, Lauren posted this:
Accompanied by this image of a “bopping” bird.
Although Zeronauts typically refer to writing sprints as writing scampers, we have nothing against writing bops. Especially if they work!
That’s the spirit! Scamper! Bop! Whatever verb stirs your creative juices and amps up your productivity.
DO THAT!
Of course, being the ancient relic that I am, Lauren’s bopping brings to mind The Big Bopper and his hit song Chantilly Lace.
In the spirit of bop ‘til you drop a page or two … today’s recipient of the Dalton Trumbo Award is Lauren Taylor Bishop!
Congratulations, Lauren!
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!
BOP ’TIL YOU DROP!
SCAMPER ON!