2025 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 2
One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
Zero Draft Thirty: Day 2.
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 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!
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Today’s Writing Quote
“A word after a word after a word is power.”
— Margaret Atwood
Today’s Inspirational Video
I’ve recently discovered a wonderfully creative persons: Elle Cordova. Musician, songwriter, poet, and a social media influencer in the best sense of the word. Her short-form videos are at times whimsical, other times funny, always thoughtful.
Here is a video she calls “A Thought Experiment.” I strongly recommend you take two minutes to watch and reflect on the wisdom Elle shares.
As a bonus, here is a three-part series Elle did imagining conversations between fonts. That’s right … fonts.
Today’s Daily Dialogue Video
I have dedicated the 2025 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge to memorable movie dialogue. Today: The Shawshank Redemption.
“Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things and no good thing ever dies.” Words of inspiration for those of us on this month’s writing challenge.
Of course, we must do the ending scene from Shawshank.
“Hope.” The very last word of the movie. This from Red, who much earlier had told Andy, “Hope is a dangerous thing.”
That right there sums up Red’s character arc.
Beautiful movie.
Today’s Dalton Trumbo Award winner: LaNita Mosley.
Over at the Zero Draft Thirty Facebook group, LaNita posted this:
What is the important word there? Challenge? Sure. FADE IN. Absolutely. But the one I’m zeroing in on is this: START. Okay, a slow start, but a start is a beginning. A first few steps. Black type as letters … words … sentences … paragraphs … scenes … pages.
Slow … fast … pace doesn’t matter. What does is to START. And keep starting every day. Start with this scene. Tomorrow start with that scene.
You do that for the month of March, eventually you get to Fade Out.
By providing that Challenge icebreaker, today’s Dalton Trumbo Award recipient is: LaNita Mosley!
Congratulations, LaNita!
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 …
Keep hope alive!
Write the next scene!
Go! Do! Write!