2024 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge: Day 1

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

Zero Draft Thirty: Day 1.

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!

Download your very own Zero Draft Thirty calendar — designed and created by Steven Dudley — and track your daily progress!

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Today’s Writing Quote

“I believe myself that a good writer doesn’t really need to be told anything except to keep at it.” — Chinua Achebe

Today’s Inspirational Video

Setup: This young fellow just rode a bicycle for the first time. Here are his words of inspiration:

I feel happy of myself. Everybody, I know you can believe in yourself. If you believe in yourself, you will know how to ride a bike. If you don’t, you just keep practicing. You will get the hang of it, I know it. If you keep practicing, you will get the hang of it, and then you can get better and better at it. Thumbs up everybody, rock and roll.

That is the spirit of the Zero Draft approach to writing. Believe in yourself and just keep at it. Let this video be your spirit guide throughout the next month!

The Anita Loos Award!

Every time we run a Challenge, we celebrate writers who participate in the event. If you post something inspirational … here at Go Into The Story … the Zero Draft Thirty Facebook group … on social media (Twitter/X, Instagram, TikTok) if you use the hashtag #ZD30SCRIPT … you… yes, YOU could be the recipient of the Anita Loos Award!

To learn more about Anita Loos and her illustrious career as a screenwriter, playwright, director, and journalist, go here.

For background on how the Zero Draft Challenge came to be and what it is, go here, here, and here.

Now Zeronauts, it’s time to type FADE IN … and start writing!