2024 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge: Day 18

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

Zero Draft Thirty: Day 18.

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…

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Today’s Writing Quote

“The secret to screenwriting is short sentences, small words, and BIG pictures.”

— William Kelley

Today’s Inspirational Video

Out of the mouths of babes and infants…

Today’s Anita Loos Award winner: Gary Frazier.

Over at the Zero Draft Thirty Facebook group page, Gary posted this.

I admire this. Use each day to progress your story toward Fade Out. Then attend a Weezer concert.

Still, my favorite Weezer song is this one.

Kudos, Gary, for having your priorities straight: Write first. Weezer second. As a result, you are today’s recipient of the Anita Loos Award!

Congratulations, Gary! Feel to print this award and post it at your writing desk for inspiration.

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

For your chance to win the Anita Loos 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 to be and what it is, go here, here, and here.

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Now Zeronauts…

SCAMPER ON!

Onward!