2025 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 31
One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
Zero Draft Thirty: Day 31.
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 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
“Writing is a journey through complexity to simplicity. What is the simple emotional journey that grounds everything?”
— Justin Rhodes
Today’s Inspirational Video
We end where we began, but this time the Songify version:
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.
Today’s Daily Dialogue Inspiration
I have dedicated the 2025 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge to memorable movie dialogue. Today: The Matrix.
The last line changes is the movie: A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there, I leave to you.
There you go, writers. Any time we sit down to write, anything is possible. And if we keep writing … keep at it …
We can reach FADE OUT. THE END.
An appropriate way to round out this Zero Draft Challenge.
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Now Zeronauts …
The choice is up to you.
Write … or don’t write.
One thing is clear.
The only path toward Fade Out …
Is the path named “Write” …