How to write a Series Outline for Television 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.
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 the screen. I work with [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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; we had Kate Oates Series [...]
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 it were - my television [...]
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 Screewriter’s Festival in October. It [...]
