WRITING MISTAKES YOU DON’T WANT TO MAKE
I've been helping writers via SCRIPT ADVICE since 2007 and it feels the right time now to collate the most oft-made mistakes I see in scripts and hope you find [...]
EVERGREEN LIST – FOR TELEVISION WRITERS
I started in television in 1990 when the world was analogue not digital and mobile phones were Bengal Tiger rare. The only ones I regularly saw were those used by [...]
SCRIPT ADVICE NEWSLETTER 17 – CRITICISM – HOW TO TAKE IT
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.ukFind out if I can help you with your [...]
MY FAVOURITE LINKS FOR WRITERS
Running my website for writers SCRIPT ADVICE and THE SCRIPT ADVICE WRITERS ROOM on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/237330119115/ I often come across very valuable advice on the Net for writers. I also [...]
NEWSLETTER 16 – THE SPRING ONE
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.ukFind out if I can help you with your [...]
QUALITY CONTROL
Holby City 1999. I had been asked by Mal Young (Head of Series drama at BBC1) to produce the second series of this critically acclaimed medical drama. The first series [...]
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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 [...]
10 MISTAKES WRITERS MAKE WHEN WRITING FOR 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 [...]
PULLING OUT THE STORY
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 in [...]
NEWSLETTER 14
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 [...]
10 MISTAKES PEOPLE MAKE WHEN WRITING FOR 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 [...]
SCRIPT ADVICE NEWSLETTER -13
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 [...]
SCRIPT EDITING – THE LOW DOWN
I was a Script Editor on Eastenders. That's how I started in the television industry.Prior to my baptism of fire on the then twice weekly popular soap from the BBC, [...]
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SCRIPT ADVICE NEWSLETTER 12 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 [...]
WRITING FOR SOAPS
WRITING FOR SOAPS – Very few programmes ever reach the Olympian ratings heights of our much-loved, much discussed soaps. Having spent a large proportion of my script editing and producing [...]
SCRIPT ADVICE NEWSLETTER 11
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.ukFind out if I can help you with your [...]
FIVE BASIC, ESSENTIAL SCRIPT WRITING DO’S AND DON’TS
Marketting Bods beavering away in the back rooms of Consumer Cathedrals like Waitrose and Sainsburys use the words Basic and Essential to draw the wider slice of the human consumer-pyramid [...]
SCRIPT ADVICE NEWSLETTER – AUTUMN EDITION – 10
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 [...]
SCRIPT ADVICE NEWSLETTER – SUMMER – 2011 – issue 09
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 [...]
script advice newsletter – Spring
SCRIPT ADVICE – NEWSLETTER 08 · Spring is here! · Story telling for Telly · Short Courses from SCRIPT ADVICE and other interesting stuff WHAT THE SCRIPT FACTORY SAYS ABOUT [...]
SCRIPT ADVICE NEWSLETTER – 7
SCRIPT ADVICE Newsletter – 7 Contents: Happy New Year! The Ups and Downs of Social Networking A Day In The Life Of George, Jobbing Writer – Me and My Shadow [...]
SCRIPT ADVICE Newsletter – 6
SCRIPT ADVICE Newsletter – 6 Contents: Morning! I’ve Got An Idea For A Script…. A Day In The Life Of George, Jobbing Writer – ‘Networking’ A Bit Of Extra Find [...]
SCRIPT ADVICE Newsletter – 5
Contents: Hello Breathless A Day In The Life Of George Jobbing Writer Interesting Stuff Find out if I can help you with your current project @ https://scriptadvice-co-uk.stackstaging.com/ offering writers mentoring, [...]
SCRIPT ADVICE NEWSLETTER 4
My son was born in my 46th year. This, according to the NHS made me as old as the Peat Bog Woman but he turned out healthy and happy in spite of my Neolithic status. So I for one am happy to concede that I can not have it all and am very lucky that I had the career had and still managed to get the opportunity to be a mum before my bits turned back to peat bog.
THE SECOND DRAFT EDIT
Welcome to the second instalment in the life of George, my fictitious enthusiastic writer, trying to make her way in the tricky world of television. A Day In The Life [...]