Professional script advice from a working screenwriter.
There it is. The party train rolls into July, and with a snap of the fingers, half of humanity…sorry, half of 2019 is done and dusted. It’s been a funny six months, with a lot of excitement and promise mixed with a lot of stalls and stutters. I was propelled into January off the back … Continue reading The Writing Journal #36
There are few feelings better for a writer than coming across a new idea. The rush of giddy excitement as new characters, story worlds and set pieces flash across your mind, propelling you into a mad scramble to capture them all before they disappear into the ether once more. During this time, you don’t have … Continue reading The Writing Journal #35
It seems there is a glut of phenomenal TV on our screens at the moment. The Virtues, Years and Years, Ghosts and What We Do in the Shadows to name but a few (before you even begin to add in Big Little Lies, Killing Eve and The Handmaid’s Tale starting back up again the weekend … Continue reading The Writing Journal #33
At the beginning of May, I was in quite a creatively low place. The preceding months had swept me up in a whirlwind of potential opportunities and exciting projects to get my teeth stuck into, which was fantastic, but for various reasons – funding applications being turned down; collaborators having to switch priorities; projects in … Continue reading The Writing Journal #32
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