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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 how much of my creative work is to do with identifying, highlighting and then handling structure. [...]
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 gulp like a Chicken McNugget, fire was your friend. Around that fire, our Ancestors sat; in [...]
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 the length is prescriptively controlled, that under no circumstances should you exceed X number of characters. [...]
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 weight of the story, the abundance of characters, the complexity of this world you are creating [...]
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 about writing: 'The only happiness you have is writing something new, in the middle of the [...]
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 structure in the language of television drama. I literally come out in a rash if a [...]
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