Zero Draft Thirty 2016 Autumn Challenge: Day 19
Zero Draft Thirty: Day 19.
September 1: Type FADE IN / The Beginning.
September 30: Type FADE OUT / The End.
30 days. 1 script. Movie script. TV script. First draft. Rewrite. Whatever.
Get it down. Get it done.
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Today’s Writing Quote
“Audiences go to movies to feel.
When the movie becomes too mechanical
instead of organic,
audiences detach from the film.”
— Simon Kinberg
Today’s Inspirational Poem
A Spiral Notebook
By Ted Kooser
The bright wire rolls like a porpoise
in and out of the calm blue sea
of the cover, or perhaps like a sleeper
twisting in and out of his dreams,
for it could hold a record of dreams
if you wanted to buy it for that
though it seems to be meant for
more serious work, with its
college-ruled lines and its cover
that states in emphatic white letters,
5 SUBJECT NOTEBOOK. It seems
a part of growing old is no longer
to have five subjects, each
demanding an equal share of attention,
set apart by brown cardboard dividers,
but instead to stand in a drugstore
and hang on to one subject
a little too long, like this notebook
you weigh in your hands, passing
your fingers over its surfaces
as if it were some kind of wonder.
I love this poem. It’s a poem for writers. The tactile experience of writing, reflective of the magic and wonder of something emerging from nothing.
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UPDATE: This from Gatwiri NyamNyam:
For that insight into the creative process, today’s Marion Award goes to Gatwiri NyamNyam:
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