‘We had a productive fun day at our latest Story Away Day – I love to pass on what I know to writers and help raise their writing bar, take a look at the feedback below and how attending this day might help you’

Yvonne Grace

“I’ve learned so much; subtext, character arc – things that are key to success at script writing”

“Within 15 minutes I’d already got my monies worth”

DEVELOP YOUR TV SERIES IDEA – ONE DAY – AT MY COTTAGE IN EAST SUSSEX

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TV scriptwriting

‘Her process is immersive, challenging and above all, stimulating’

Andrew Craft

‘What strongly appealed to me was Yvonne’s deep understanding of the DNA of television; its workings and what success looks like’

Greg Vines

  NEW date to be confirmed – £200. Lunch provided.

Working with a tv professional is essential to getting your tv series idea off to a strong creative and commercial start. Working with me in a small and friendly group setting at my cottage in East Sussex we will:

  • Break Story
  • Build character and develop their arcs
  • Shape your series outline 
  • Write your Treatment 

I will take you through my process taking each writers’ project individually and I will show you how you can pull out your themes, your message and identify your narrative through line.

Using my tried and tested Treatment Template as a guide, I will take you through the treatment writing process and then you will write your own treatment.

I live in a 300 year old cottage in a pretty village 1hr. 10mins train ride from London Charing Cross.

We start 10am with an hour lunch provided and finish at 4pm with tea and coffee breaks in between.

The atmosphere will be convivial, productive and fun.

I have 30 years experience of working with writers and their projects; let me take yours through my process to make your project as good as it can be.

FEE: £200.00 Contact me yvonnegrace61@gmail.com for my bank details to confirm your place around my table and to ask any questions. Join the small group to access my big telly brain…..

You will also each receive a signed copy of my book Writing For Television Series Serials and Soaps.

My Book

Yvonne Grace is an award-winning television drama producer with 25 years experience in script editing, script development, and drama production for the BBC and other networks. As a Script Editor, she delivered record ratings for her episodes of EastEnders, as a Producer, her series of Holby City was Bafta nominated, latterly, she Executive Produced the critically acclaimed final series of Crossroads.

She helps writers write better scripts through her script-editing, mentoring and training company www.scriptadvice.co.uk

Cottage Location

Useful Resources

If you are interested in reading more helpful advice or joining an online community of like-minded writers, join my group Script Advice Writers’ Room on Facebook and take a look at my blog.

‘Yvonne is creative, insightful and experienced. Her personality also shines which makes working with her a real pleasure’

Lyndon Hayes

‘So grateful for your insight and expertise, delivered with a dash of sparkling humour!’

Julie Ferry

You can’t create experience, you must undergo it

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Yvonne has worked with the following companies and can proudly wear the ‘been there, done that’ T-shirt

Once I had a first draft, I honestly couldn’t tell if it was any good. I hadn’t written for TV before and had no idea what the structure for an episode was…I knew I needed to get some expert eyes on it, so I went to Yvonne… She’s had 30+ years in the industry and seemed to fundamentally understand TV drama. She was the right person to help. I’d had lots of positive feedback about how strong my opening pages were. I was really, really proud of them. And one of Yvonne’s first comments was, “the opening’s got to change”…I trusted her though, and she was right…

MARTIN BELL

JEM DRYER Delegate/script editor If you ever want to see a real wizard at work, sign up for Yvonne Grace’s Script Editing for Television course right this second. The way Yvonne can take apart a script is genuinely dazzling to watch, and you can’t help but feel yourself becoming ten times the script editor you were just by watching her process. There is no explanation for being able to cover every aspect of script analysis and editing, storylining, delivering notes to writers, and understanding the script editor’s role in production in only four days other than magic.

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