Zero Draft Thirty 2016 Spring Challenge: Day 17
Zero Draft Thirty: Day 17.
March 1: Type FADE IN / The Beginning.
March 30 31: Type FADE OUT / The End.
30 31 days. 1 script. Movie script. TV script. First draft. Rewrite. Whatever.
I’m doing it. You’re invited.
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Today’s Writing Quote
“Writing is the best gig in the whole business,
as far as I’m concerned.
You just sit down and make shit up.”
— Robert Mark Kamen
Today’s Inspirational Video
Named by Rolling Stone magazine as the #1 song in its list of the top 500 rock songs of all time, I concur! Play it. Revel in it. Creativity at its apex.
Check back later for the winner of today’s Trumbo Award!
Onward!
UPDATE: Sometimes as a writer, you just have to laugh. So here you go!
Yes, there are occasions when we don’t know what we’re writing about. But the spirit of Zero Draft is if you write it, it will come. So if during this current Zero Draft Thirty Challenge, you feel like you’re lost, go ahead and laugh. A big hearty guffaw. Writing a story is a crazy leap of faith. We need to be able to laugh to balance out the pounding head on keyboard, pulling out hair, and screaming into the darkness moment which frequent the process.
So for this visual, today’s Trumbo Award goes to Anna Blackmon.
Give yourself a chance to laugh. Then put those fingers onto the keyboard and get back at the writing.