When I was 25 and starting out doing what I am doing now but not sure how to go about it, I would have really appreciated it if someone had taken me by my silver [...]
* Are you stuck on a storyline? * Are you getting bogged down in woolly story lining? * Have you painted yourself in to a story corner and can’t work yourself out of it? * [...]
Writers who have worked with me via my services at Scriptadvice.co.uk know that I consider planning and structuring your stories as important as creating them in the first place. Art and artifice go hand in [...]
There is a fair amount of confusing and conflicting information out there, in Cyberland, about television documents and what it is you, the writer, needs to have ready to show them, the Producers and Commissioners, [...]
Via my Script Consultancy Business www.scriptadvice.co.uk I work with a lot of writers, mainly via email or Skype, from my desk here at Script Advice Towers aka My House. I also have a child to [...]
I asked Jayne Lake; writer, twitterer, facebook member of my group Script Advice Writer's Room and all round good egg, to pen me a blog about what she took from the BBC Writers' Festival 2014. [...]
Regular readers of my blog and readers of my book; Writing For Television Series Serials and Soaps - will know how that I started my long career in television drama production via the script editing route. [...]
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 [...]
My son has Chicken Pox. He is not at school and as I type this, he watches his favourite Lego-themed DVD; 'Clutch Powers'; Malick The Maligned has stolen Clutch's father's Creation Spark....I feel a blog coming [...]
I have started watching ABC's 'Nashville' and am re-awakening my enjoyment of CBS's 'The Good Wife' on More4. The former is a big frothy bath of soap bubble and intrigue, set against the backdrop of the [...]
