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 storyline on a tv drama [...]
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 on track. Here, on the [...]
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 to expect and how to [...]
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 sandals and a bid to [...]
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 with your current project@ https://scriptadvice-co-uk.stackstaging.com [...]
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 commission of his Sitcom pilot [...]
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 was working for. So I [...]
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 every day as we balance [...]
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 need to be looking at [...]
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 the don'ts useful to know [...]
