2025 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 25
One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
Zero Draft Thirty: Day 25.
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
“A great script creates an irresistible narrative flow that propels a reader to an inevitable dramatic conclusion.”
— Javier Grillo-Marxuach
Today’s Inspirational Video
This amazing performance may have been the moment where Janis Joplin became JANIS JOPLIN. She totally grabbed the audience and would not let them go. An object lesson for our screenwriting.
Today’s Daily Dialogue Inspiration
I have dedicated the 2025 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge to memorable movie dialogue. Today: Casablanca.
Then the great line from Laszlo:
Do you know how you sound, M’sieur Rick? Like a man trying to convince himself of something that in his heart he doesn’t believe.
First, this is inspirational because it’s a scene from one of the most memorable movies of all time. But there’s also this: It raises the subject of belief. That is fundamental to a writer’s life: believing in one’s self.
Every time we sit down to write, we act on the belief …
We have something to say.
We have a story to tell.
We are a writer.
The world would try to convince us that we don’t really believe, like what Rick was trying to do.
But in the end in Casablanca, Rick reconnected with that belief.
Connect with the belief you have in yourself as a writer …
Then write.
For your chance to win the Dalton Trumbo Award, post something inspiring, here on the blog or the Facebook group.
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Now Zeronauts …
Believe in yourself as a writer.
Act on that belief by writing.
Onward!