Zero Draft Thirty: Write a Script in a Month Challenge

24 Oct 2015 • 1 min read

T minus 8 days. On November 1, the Zero Draft Thirty challenge kicks off!

Zero Draft is what some writers call the vomit draft… or muscle draft… the just-get-the-damn-thing-done draft.

And thirty is… well… the number 30 which is… oh, yeah… the number of days in November!

Write an entire first draft of a script in November — FADE IN to FADE OUT in 30 days.

I’m doing it! How about 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!

Go here, here, here, here, and here to learn about the Zero Draft Thirty challenge.

Check out the comments and see how over 200 writers have signed up. And you are invited to join the creative fracas.

By the way, Indiewire has picked up on the challenge. And it’s been translated into Spanish. So this thing has legs!

This week, I’ve been focusing daily ZD30 posts on story prep. Next week: The psychology of writing. But for now:

November 1: Type FADE IN.
November 30: Type FADE OUT.

30 days. A first draft of an original screenplay.

Who’s with me?

It’s cool! It’s crazy! It’s free!

NOTE: For those of you using Twitter, use the hashtag #ZD30SCRIPT.

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