When I was 25 and starting out doing what I am doing now but not sure how to go about it, I would have really appreciated it if someone had taken me by my silver [...]
* Are you stuck on a storyline? * Are you getting bogged down in woolly story lining? * Have you painted yourself in to a story corner and can’t work yourself out of it? * [...]
I read television and feature film scripts almost every day. This is because I am in the fortunate position of being able to offer writers (like you, reading this blog) my SCRIPT ADVICE READING AND [...]
I am very pleased to say I am now a member of the Script Magazine community of writers and bloggers and urge you to bookmark this magazine as it is an excellent resource for writers [...]
Writers who have worked with me via my services at Scriptadvice.co.uk know that I consider planning and structuring your stories as important as creating them in the first place. Art and artifice go hand in [...]
There is a fair amount of confusing and conflicting information out there, in Cyberland, about television documents and what it is you, the writer, needs to have ready to show them, the Producers and Commissioners, [...]
I have just finished a busy weekend up in the freezing North - the glorious grandeur of Edinburgh to be exact - teaching a talented, creative bunch of would be television and feature writers how [...]
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 more scented candles than is [...]
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 essential, but expendable element of [...]
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