The Development Path is not often an easy one. Writers must not only create a series that is true to their voice, to their interests and intentions, but also this series must deliver to [...]
How to write a Pilot for Television. This is my mark 2 chapter on the subject. A note of caution from the Off. Firstly, do read my blog How To Write the Pilot for [...]
The creative process can be messy. If you are a Jackson Pollock sort of word splasher, then you will know what I mean. If you lean more to the Mondrian or Escher school of thought, [...]
I regularly write articles for InkTip Magazine and this is my latest - I break down the creative v the commercial aspects of writing for television and give you a handy listicle of the documents [...]
Here is a handy link to my TELEVISION WRITING TIPS AND TRICKS column for Script Magazine; all my articles all in the one place. Book mark this so you can have me at your finger [...]
Here is my latest article for Script Magazine on Writing Successful Stories for Television and the tips and tricks writers need to have in their 'stash of useful stuff' to ensure they engage an audience [...]
As many of Script Advice Writer’s Room members on Facebook and followers of my Twitter feed may know, I delivered a session on Treatment Writing for Television at the London Screenwriter’s Festival in October. It [...]
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? * [...]
I am fresh back from an amazing time at The London Screenwriter’s Festival, where I did four things of note: 1/ Run my session ‘Sizzle and Substance’with Bafta winning writer and show-runner Barbara Machin and [...]
