Last year, in response to a writing prompt on the second day, a writer reached out and said:
"I can't figure out how to fit a fire escape into the play that I'm writing."
To which I replied:
"That's fine. Keep writing your play the way you want to. Ignore the prompt."
While we appreciate what good rule followers writers can sometimes be, you can feel free to give yourself a break any and all of the 30 days.
If you're working on a project and you just want to use the structure of daily having to turn in pages to the challenge as a way for you to either start or complete a script, go for it. (I did that ALL the time in past writing challenges run by others.)
The point is to write every day, not to write to the specific thing we tell you to.
The prompt is there to help inspire you. It's not there to get in your way.
If the prompt doesn't work for you, then write something else.
If you want to write a cheeky aside to the rule you're ignoring, like a character saying "Boy, I really wish we had a fire escape for this problem," feel free to make fun of the prompt. But it's not required that you even acknowledge it that much.
This is not a contest.
You're not being judged.
You're not being graded.
The only thing we want everyone to do is write a little bit every day for a month.
That's the only thing we ask of you.
And if you stumble one day and don't write, don't beat yourself up, just write the next day.
Don't sweat the guidelines, other than to put something in writing and then get it into our hands by 12 noon Central Time each day, via any of the routes outlined in the prompts.
Don't make it more complicated than that.
Just write.
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