PITCHING FOR TELEVISION – HOW TO DO IT WELL
Creating a cohesive, engaging, comprehensive, creative and commercial world for television from scratch, getting it out of your head, on to the page/screen and ultimately across the desk of [...]
The Development Path Writing Television Scripts That Sell
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 [...]
How To Write a Pilot for Television
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 [...]
WRITING THE TELEVISION PILOT – FIRST TEN PAGES
Writing the Television Pilot - the first ten pages - can be daunting for Television writers. In this blog, I want to set out the five key factors that [...]
HOW TO WRITE A TREATMENT AND STRUCTURE SERIES NARRATIVE
Do you want to know how to write Television Treatments and learn how to structure your series narrative?
How to write a TV series outline
How to write a TV series outline is a tricky skill to get right. You need to be both creative but also present your series narrative commercially, so that Producers find it easy to read and it answers their key questions about the series as a whole.
How To Write Well for Television Series Drama
Television writing demands specific, necessary and particular skills in order that the story and characters you imagine make it strongly and clearly to the page and from there to [...]
HOW TO STRUCTURE STORY FOR TELEVISION DRAMA SERIES
Working with Television series story structure is often an eye-opener for many writers working with me for the first time. It can be surprising to learn just [...]
THE POWER OF STORY
In The Beginning When the world was a place of fear and danger; when wild carnivorous animals roamed free that could eat a human in one [...]
Loglines For Television Series Drama – How To Write Them
There’s an awful lot of conflicting information about Loglines on the Internet. There are some who would demand that a logline has a certain number of words in it; that [...]
Writing A Treatment For A TV Series
You are a writer with great ideas. You've had a brilliant one which has to be for television - there's a series here you know it, but the sheer [...]
How To Write a Pilot for a Television Series
Are you about to dive into that exciting, also rather terrifying world of the TV Pilot? Here is what one of my favourite writers (of short stories) Lorrie Moore says [...]
How To Structure A Television Drama Series
Those of you that have worked with me in 2018 will know that THE most thing I bang on about during our Skype script edit sessions is the importance of [...]
Five Key Ways To Get Your Story On The Page
Here at SCRIPT ADVICE www.scriptadvice.co.uk I have compiled a hit list of the vital things you should be considering as you dive off that metaphorical screenwriting board into the shifting [...]
Eight Step Plan: How To Write Great Television Series Drama
1: THE CREATIVE PROCESS What do you want to say? 2: MAPPING AND STRUCTURE - THE MACRO V THE MICRO How are you going to say it? 3. CHARACTER ARCS [...]
How To Make The First Ten Pages Of Your Script Sell The Other Fifty
Recently Scriptadvice.co.uk teamed up with Screenwritinggoldmine.com to run this little beauty of a workshop for writers wanting to tackle the first 10 pages of their television pilots. It was great; [...]
Series Story Telling – It’s All About The Subtex
Subtext can be found beneath words, gestures, behaviours, actions, and images..... I like being connected and associated with Series and Soaps; for this is where I earned my stripes as [...]
HOW TO WRITE A TELEVISION SERIES TREATMENT
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 [...]
How to write a really good television drama treatment
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 [...]
THE SCRIPT EDITOR VIEW – THE CRUCIAL FIVE
TEXT SUBTEXT CHARACTER DIALOGUE NARRATIVE PACE I have a steady stream of writers coming through the Script Advice portal via my website www.scriptadvice.co.uk. I read a lot of scripts. You [...]
How to write television series drama – The structured path
The writers that work with me regularly via Script Advice and those familiar with my blogs will be all too aware of how much I bang on about the importance of [...]
How To Create Narrative Stretch
I cut my drama teeth on Eastenders. This fact made two things true about me: 1/ That I thrive on pressure 2/ That I like making stories happen. To continue [...]
TELEVISION DRAMA SERIES – WHAT MAKES THE GOOD ONES TICK
The health and vitality of Television Series has, happily, never been better and I say that from a perspective that covers both sides of The Pond. Breaking Bad practically broke [...]
10 Mistakes People Make About Writing and Working In Television:
1/ Believing you, the writer, are bigger than the sum of the show's parts. If you are part of a writing team on a series or serial, you are an [...]
ENDORSEMENTS FROM MY COURSE SCRIPT EDITING FOR TELEVISION MAY / NOVEMBER 2017
November 2017: Having come from a film background and been somewhat flying by the seat of my pants developing my own television projects, I wanted to learn more detail about [...]