Ok, I'll start off the first comment. What's your favorite song to write to? What songs should I put in my playlist?

Call me crazy, but Sympathy for the Devil by the Rolling Stones just gets me going.

Re music. My favourite is Thunderstruck by AC/DC, but I like all sorts. Much depends on the mood of what I'm writing. Slow electronica or symphonic music for slow build ups or romantic scenes, heavy rock for action and so on... But just about anything with a beat gets the pulse going and thus the writing tends to gain a pretty rapid rhythm :-) Well, at the end of day 10, I managed just 5 pages. Am slowing down a little in an attempt to pace myself But am now at p88 :-) Onward I say! Onward! :-)

I often to listen to music while writing or preparing to write. I like making playlists that are appropriate to my characters or emotions of the story. I have one going for this project. It helps. If you have a general sense of something you're looking for, I might be able to give recommendations. Looking at recently played..."Sweet Jane" by the Velvet Underground is just one of many songs that gets me a in good mood for writing.

Yes, 10 days of writing does feel worth celebrating. I got 4 more pages down tonight. So I'm feeling pretty good and feeling the momentum build in a meaningful way. Let's keep it going.

Well, you ARE a man of wealth and taste.

I have Spotify open and choose music the same way I pick music when I'm driving. Sometimes it's to create a certain mood or atmosphere, but other times it's just What Jam Do You Wanna Hear Right Now. And let it flow from there.

4 more pages, page 40! Once I hit 50 I'll be the furthest away from FADE IN, that I've ever bean. /samwise I feel like diving into actually writing is more important than any screenwriting book ever by itself. All the advice, notes on structure and tone, tips, none of it matters unless you're cutting your way through the brush with nothing but you and your time. And I wouldn't have really felt that realization if it hadn't been for ZD30. Thanks everyone, see you tomorrow!

thedchen, I can't begin to tell you how thrilled I am to hear this. You have hit at the heart of the matter and believe you me, this: "I feel like diving into actually writing is more important than any screenwriting book ever by itself. All the advice, notes on structure and tone, tips, none of it matters unless you’re cutting your way through the brush with nothing but you and your time." Would be music to pro writers' ears. Sure, you can learn things from screenwriting 'gurus' and hopefully from teachers such as myself (I don't consider myself as a 'guru'), but at the end of the day, it IS about you, the writer, sitting with your characters and pounding out pages. And to know this is as far as you've gotten EVER in a script? Keep going. Get to FADE OUT. That will be a HUGE psychological boost for you! Onward!

Thunderstruck... That song most definitely has THE coolest sexiest intro EVER ^^ Mr Zombi and my 15 year-old daughter are both die-hard AC/DC fans so my ears are pretty full every day both at home and in the car. Which is quite OK with me - they're great! I like all kinds of music except for rap and the recent vinyl record revival is a godsent! I listen mostly to soundtracks when I write and it's always the same ones - I can get a little obsessive that way ^^ This year, it's been MAN OF STEEL, INTERSTELLAR, GLADIATOR and TRON: LEGACY. I'm also completely in love with the works of the Italian pianist Ludovico Einaudi and am getting into John Carpenter's LOST THEMES (just got it on vinyl along with ESCAPE FROM NY). Well done with your pages, happy writings :)

Couldn't write very much because of a very long day at work. But I did manage to write a scene. As to what I listen to when I write? I like to just pick one song and have it play over and over. Somehow that makes my brain get into a rhythm and I'm able to concentrate better. I also like to listen to positive affirmations to try to raise my self esteem.

LOL. That song is #8 on my Top playlist. I find that listening to music helps me when I'm rewriting....just that it puts you in the mood and pumped to be creative. Writing is challenging enough...so stuff that puts you in a good mood like eating your favorite snack, having a nice cold beverage, finding a good place to write and listening to good music helps.

I'm up for almost anything as long as it's a good song. I'm constantly scouring for new songs because I don't want to get tired of my playlist, so I have to add new songs to it, to keep it fresh. I've gone through every decade and pulled the songs that I thought were terrific whether they were hits or not.

Unfortunately, I didn't write any page yesterday. My headache was killing me, so I spent most of the day away from any kind of technology. So, today the goal is to write from page 34 to page 39. I hope 40.

I haven't made new ones in a heck of a while, but I try to make soundtracks of all my ideas, I can see the whole movie in my head, then the rest is just the details.

4,5 pages already. Planning to do at least 10,5 more today. Wish me luck!

I'm an historian and have more experience writing nonfiction history stuff than fiction. My screenplay obsession started a year ago. It's all a learning process. I love it so much. I usually listen to instrumental soundtracks like Last of the Mohicans, Gladiator, Glory, lots of James Horner. I've been playing around with a romantic comedy since July. I'm using ZD30 for motivation to get the first draft done. 56 pages this month! Do it!

Great job, everyone!! Re: music ... sometimes a particular song will help me write a particular scene or montage. For two recent scripts, one called for listening to Van Halen's "You Really Got Me", and the other called for Rixton's "I Like Girls". Listening to each over and over and over helped me nail those scenes. Otherwise, I can't have music with singing playing .. as a general rule .. unless it's the white noise b.g. sort, like at a bustling coffee house. As for pages, I'm not amassing much this week. I'm out of state visiting family I haven't seen for 2 years, so I'm allowing no guilt to creep in. I knew this coming into the challenge. I am, however, working out a lot of scenes and sequences during long morning walks and car-rides. I'm sure I looked pretty silly in the woods yesterday talking out loud with no one else around, but honestly, it was just me and some squirrels, a woodpecker and a deer, so ........ no worries! As suspected, when I have actually typed, I bogged myself down IN the screenwriting software --- my tendency is to fuss more about how the pages look than what the words are saying --- soooooo I am reverting back to Word and free-writing without any concern for format. It's helping me get stuff down in that free-est way possible. (sigh) Lastly for today: stumbled across a great article with tips from screenwriter Charlie Kaufman. Well worth the time to take a peek, ya'all. Here's the linK: http://thestorydepartment.com/charlie-kaufman-masterclass-in-sweden/ Alright, onward. Keep on rockin', folks!!

The screenplay I am writing for ZD30 actually was inspired by an old Mexican cumbia song I used hear back in the day (that is, the 90s). I started playing it to my kids and it got to the point where they could not stand it anymore. One day, I started thinking that this would be a great song to play to introduce a character in a movie... but what character would that be? And how? And why? And when?And it all came to me. I finished the outline just in time for ZD30. Now I play this song when I write to get me in the zone. Now I'm 38 pages in and there is no turning back. And, of course, I made a note to play the song the first time the protagonist is introduced (to be played over the initial credits.) Which also means that without the permission to use the song, I'm pretty much screwed.

Today I doubled what I had. From page 14 to 28!