2025 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 7

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

Zero Draft Thirty: Day 7.

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

“Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.”

— Ray Bradbury

Today’s Inspirational Video

Today’s Daily Dialogue Video

I have dedicated the 2025 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge to memorable movie dialogue. Today: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.

If two hobbits can defeat the malevolent powers of Sauron, surely YOU can write today! And if you feel weary and spent, close your eyes and imagine Sam holding you in his arms as you clutch your laptop computer.

I can’t carry it for you … but I can carry you!

Today’s Dalton Trumbo Award winner: Martina Cook.

Over at the Zero Draft Thirty Facebook group, Martina posted this:

One scene! One page! One paragraph! Even one line of dialogue! Whatever you write puts you one step closer to Fade Out.

No, Pudgy! It’s NEVER too late to catch the bus. Because you’re not a bus rider. You’re a bus WRITER!!!

More bus stuff!

For that busload of inspiration, today’s recipient of the Dalton Trumbo Award is Martina Cook!

Congratulations, Martina!

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.

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Now Zeronauts …

You’ve got hobbits urging you on …

And a bus to catch.

Deposit your derriere on chair …

And write!