2020 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge: Day 8
One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity
Zero Draft Thirty: Day 8.
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!
September 1: You type FADE IN / “Once upon a time…”
September 30: You type FADE OUT / “…They all lived happily ever after.”
It’s free! It’s fun! It’s Fade In to Fade Out!
For everything you need to know to join, click here.
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On Twitter, use this hashtag: #ZD30SCRIPT.
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Today’s Writing Quote
“It’s really important to know not to panic, it’s all going to come together; you’ve just got to keep pushing forward.”
— Lisa Cholodenko
Today’s Inspirational Video
I love this song! Molly Tuttle singing “Take the Journey.” Amazing clawhammer guitar technique. Here are the lyrics:
Cold, cold nights lead to cold, cold mornings
The road keeps going and it never seems to end
Lonely hearts that cry without warning
When the light ain’t shining from around the bend
Take the journey
No matter where it starts or where it ends
Take the journey
Someday you’ll make it back home again
You can try to control the weather
But the rain inside you is still gonna fall
Days of drought will merely starve you
There’s no use hiding, we gotta face it all
Take the journey
No matter where it starts or where it ends
Take the journey
Someday you’ll make it back home again
Skies are falling all around you
Who will protect you from your deepest fears?
Take the hand of the one besides you
Let the fire guide you ’til the path is clear
Take the journey
No matter where it starts or where it ends
Take the journey
Someday you’ll make it back home again
Someday you’ll make it back home
Hero’s Journey! Heroine’s Journey! Protagonist’s Journey! Writer’s Journey!
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Zero Draft Thirty: Day 6
Zero Draft Thirty: Day 7
Each day this month, I’ll post a Zero Draft Thirty Challenge post here at Go Into The Story. And as I’ve done with every past Challenge, I will hand out an award for a notable Tweet, Facebook post, or comment here on the blog. This cycle, the winner will receive the Frances Marion Award!
Today’s Frances Marion Award winner: Donna Kienbaum.
At the Zero Draft Thirty Facebook group, Donna posted this:
The zero draft approach embraces the potential for failure. This draft is not going to be perfect, in fact, far from it. Go with it! Lean into imperfection! Feel your way into and through the writing of each scene. And whatever you do, no matter how you are feeling about your pages, get to Fade Out.
Charlie Kaufman really risked failure with his latest mind-bending movie I’m Thinking of Ending Things. Here is the trailer:
The movie is available on Netflix.
Today’s Frances Marion Award recipient is Donna Kienbaum!
You, too, can be a recipient of an award. Just offer some insight, humor, or something which catches my eye, either here, the Facebook group, or on Twitter (#ZD30SCRIPT).
For more information on Frances Marion, one of the earliest and most influential screenwriters in Hollywood, go here.
For background on how the Zero Draft Challenge came into being and what it is, go here, here, and here.
Now Zeronauts, Scampers, Word Warriors, and Outlaws…
TIME TO WRITE!
