Professional script advice from a working screenwriter.
Before I start on the Writing Journal proper this week, I would like to take a moment to ask a favour of you, my dear and esteemed readers, to help with one of my projects that could do with a little boost in the weeks ahead. Poor Uncle Dave has had a wonderful start to … Continue reading The Writing Journal #50
Time flies when you’re having fun. Apparently, it also flies when you’re producing a podcast too, because somehow, we find ourselves in September with the summer holidays behind us and that back to school feeling in the air. It still feels, to me at least, like summer has only just begun, but that could well … Continue reading The Writing Journal #45
The summer holidays are drawing to a close, and so is Series 1 of Poor Uncle Dave. Looks like everyone is heading back to school… Poor Uncle Dave Goes Back to School is now available to stream and download via Spotify, ITunes, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, and TuneIn Radio. It marks the 6th, and final, episode … Continue reading Poor Uncle Dave Goes Back to School
It’s going to be a short and sweet entry into the Writing Journal this week, as there’s lots to do and very little time to do it in! There’s a final podcast to edit together, ten hours of book edits to squeeze in, and some final summer hurrahs to be had. Izzy whizzy, let’s get … Continue reading The Writing Journal #44
What are you having for dinner this evening? Whatever you go for, I hope the preparation is less perilous than it is for Poor Uncle Dave… A brand-new episode of the Poor Uncle Dave BookCast – Poor Uncle Dave Makes Dinner – is now available to download and listen to. In this episode, Emma and … Continue reading Poor Uncle Dave Makes Dinner
This time last year I was living it up in Florida at both Disney World and Universal – my dream of a holiday in places that I absolutely adore. This summer, I’m riding a slightly different rollercoaster in producing a podcast; a relentless cycle of edits and promotion that has been a whole heap of … Continue reading The Writing Journal #43
It might be a wet and miserable day in this traditional British Summer, but that’s not going to stop us going to the seaside… The brand-new episode of Poor Uncle Dave – Poor Uncle Dave Goes to the Seaside – is now live for listening on Spotify, Apple Podcasts & Buzzsprout. In this episode, the … Continue reading Poor Uncle Dave Goes to the Seaside
“Writing a feature film is a marathon, not a sprint.” These are just some of the many useful words of advice my wonderful script development tutor gave me while I was at film school, and it is a message I have carried with me throughout the years since. They are a soothing, calming mantra during … Continue reading The Writing Journal #42
Holiday season may well be in full swing for some, but here at Stevenson Towers it has been a relentless few weeks across a number of work projects. The podcast and the novel have dominated most of my time, but there have also been the first tentative steps back towards film production starting to be … Continue reading The Writing Journal #41
It’s going to be a rather short entry into The Writing Journal this week, as there are a lot of other things making life very hectic at the moment. As some of you will hopefully be aware by now, last week saw the launch of my brand new Bookcast, “Poor Uncle Dave”, with the debut … Continue reading The Writing Journal #40
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