Confessions of a First Commission
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 [...]
HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL
Cover of Mrs. Santa Claus I am waving festively from my desk in Script Advice Towers. The faux fur hat is at a jaunty angle, I have bought [...]
HOW TO STORYLINE A TELEVISION SERIES – WORKSHOP
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 [...]
WINTER ROUND-UP THE BEST OF MY SCRIPT WRITING BLOGS
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 [...]
FIVE SCRIPT WRITING TRIPS AND SLIPS
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: [...]
SHORTENING THE ODDS
'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 [...]
WRITING FOR TELEVISION: WHAT TO EXPECT
Those charming folk at the KFTV website; (use this to search for companies/agencies/individuals in the writing and film making business) link to a blog I wrote about what to expect [...]
FIVE BASIC, ESSENTIAL SCRIPT WRITING DO’S AND DON’TS
Marketing Bods beavering away in the back rooms of Consumer Cathedrals like Waitrose and Sainsbury's use the words Basic and Essential to draw the wider slice of the human consumer-pyramid [...]
AUTUMN NEWSLETTER – STORY STRUCTURE
WHAT THE SCRIPT FACTORY SAYS ABOUT SCRIPT ADVICE: We can heartily recommend Yvonne’s workshops – she unravels television like no one else! Find out if I can help you with [...]
INT: SCRIPT EDITOR’S MIND – HQ – SCRIPT ADVICE TOWERS – DAY
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. That's what television and film production is [...]
GETTING INTO SHAPE – TELEVISION WRITING PART 2
My guest blog for the marvellous screenwriting site Euroscript is now up and live. Part Two goes into script writing, and script editing in more detail. The journey of a [...]
WORKSHOPS – WHAT DO THEY TEACH YOU?
“I am absolutely loving your blog columns. Packed full of amazing guidance from first hand experience. Thanks Yvonne!” Kelly Veno Creative Consultant. Transmedia I love to teach my television writing [...]
STORYLINING; IT’S AN ART
There is nothing as frustrating as those times when, in the story lining process, a meaty, potentially dramatic and resonant storyline is not plotted to the fullest extent of it’s [...]
DIALOGUE – THE ESSENTIALS
The purpose of dialogue in a drama script may seem obvious; it's the talking bit - right? Of course. But it is also the hardest part of screen writing to [...]
WHEN A SOAP FAILS
I am guest blogging about what the ways in which a Soap, or Series, if failing can be fixed. What the Producers must do to get the sick show back [...]
a guide to writing for television – THE KNOWLEDGE
Those knowledgeable guys at The Knowledge asked me to blog for them - here it is, A GUIDE TO TV WRITING where I give you a head's up about what [...]
WHAT I KNOW NOW
It's a chilly September morning. The heating is on at Script Advice Towers. Another Summer been and gone, for this blogger at least, in a blur of sandwiches, sand in [...]
NEWSLETTER 18 – LATEST FROM SCRIPT ADVICE
WHAT THE SCRIPT FACTORY SAYS ABOUT SCRIPT ADVICE: "We can heartily recommend Yvonne’s workshops – she unravels television like no one else! www.scriptfactory.co.uk Find out if I can help you [...]
Television Writing; Getting into Shape
Those lovely folk at Euroscript asked me to blog for them. Here it is. The journey of a television storyline....get your head around this stuff and you will make an [...]
HOW TO MAKE YOUR SCRIPT, SCRIPT EDITOR FRIENDLY
Charles Harris of @screen_lab.co.uk asked me to guest on his site. Here I dissect the sort of script an editor likes to read https://www.screen-lab.co.uk/
IF YOU WANT TO WRITE FOR CINEMA, LEARN TO MULTI-TASK
Welcome writer, director, script guru and all round good fellow, Charles Harris to the Script Advice Blog! MULTI-TASKING IN CINEMA Everything in a well-constructed cinema script carries out two, three [...]
THE THREE C’s: CREATIVE, COLLABORATIVE, COMMISSION
You probably saw this article in the Guardian a few days ago. A disgruntled, disillusioned writer tells of the torrid time he had with producers at BBC3 Comedy, following the [...]
FACE TO FACE – PITCHING – HOW TO DO IT
Over the past 20 years I have been on the receiving end of many successful and some disastrous pitches from writers seeking to sell their ideas to the channel I [...]
WHAT’S IN A STORY?
On my writer's group page Script Advice Writers Room the fabulous Lucy V Hay of www.bang2write.com and I coined a word for what script editors/writers who are also mothers do [...]
WHAT’S YOUR PROBLEM? How to Write a TV Script
Are you trying to learn how to write a tv script? Writing for television requires the same fundamental skills as writing drama or fiction for any other medium, although you [...]