2025 Zero Draft Thirty March 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 March — 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 comedy spec script. I’m spending most of the month working out my revision plan, then heading off for an extended writer’s retreat to knock out this draft.

If you join the Challenge, I will be right there with you writing each and every day in March! Let’s do this together!

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!

Today’s Daily Dialogue Video

I have dedicated the 2025 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge to memorable movie dialogue. Today:

Our Zero Draft Thirty version:

“This day we write! By all that you hold dear on this good earth — I bid you … hands … on keyboard! WRITE!!!”

Today’s Dalton Trumbo Award winner: Stephen Dudley.

Who else could we bestow this award to besides the writer who year after year creates the #ZD30SCRIPT calendar.

Congratulations, Stephen!

To learn more about Dalton Trumbo and his fascinating career as a screenwriter, go here.

For your chance to win the Dalton Trumbo Award, post something inspiring, here on the blog or the Facebook group.

Now Zeronauts …

SPREAD THE WORD!

GO WRITE!

THUMBS UP, EVERYBODY! ROCK AND ROLL!