Writing is a solitary exercise. But the business of getting your writing read, talked about and appreciated is just the opposite. You need to be a focussed solitary scriber, and then morph when the time [...]
Readers of this blog and writers lucky enough to have bagged an early bird discounted copy of my book ‘Writing For Television, Series, Serials, Soaps’ (order here from Kamera Books https://www.kamerabooks.co.uk/creativeessentials/writingfortelevision/index.php?title_isbn=9781843443377) will [...]
You have been writing for a while now; honing your craft; you are serious about being a professional writer, one who gets paid for the scripts they produce and you have decided you want [...]
The London tube strike and the resulting crush and cram across our dear capital, could not diminish my hard-boiled enthusiasm for the day ahead and the workshop I was about to run for the Indie [...]
Writers are their own worst enemy. As a Producer, I had no problem believing in my opinions on drama, on television writing, on scripts; why some worked and why some didn't. I felt confident that [...]
HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM SCRIPT ADVICE TOWERS.... I thought to herald in the New Year, I would give you a new blog. A new style. George the Blogging Writer lives in my head mostly; she does [...]
Chain Link Fence (Photo credit: camknows) ATTENTION ALL STORY-TELLERS! If you follow me on Twitter, or are a member of my facebook group Script Advice Writer's Room, then you will know a bit [...]
Snow crystals 2b (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The nights are drawing in, 2013 is putting it's feet up. Now, with Cocoa in hand, I feel is a good time to give you the best [...]
Here's a super concentrated list of the slips and trips I most often see when reading scripts. But before that; I need to repeat the script writing mantra: * We are in the [...]
'The spirit of times' - Zeitgeist. I have spent a fair amount of my career 'in Development Hell,' or what the Industry terms the position a Script Editor or Development Producer finds themselves in, whilst [...]
