TRIBUTE: A WRITING CHALLENGE
An INDIE TRAINING FUND Course that I’m running in June– June 21st 1 Day STORY, CHARACTER & IDEAS MASTER-CLASS http://www.indietrainingfund.com/courses/narrative/?event=4060 Hi There, TRIBUTE – A Writing Challenge Without wishing to depress you all too much, one of the things that has been occupying me a bit more than I would have […]
SCREENWRITING NOTES
INDIE TRAINING FUND Courses that I’m running in the next few months– May 19th 1 Day SCRIPT EDITING ESSENTIALS http://www.indietrainingfund.com/courses/script-editing-essentials/?event=3953 June 21st 1 Day STORY, CHARACTER & IDEAS MASTER-CLASS http://www.indietrainingfund.com/courses/narrative/?event=4060 Hi There, This week, some random jottings about various screenwriting-related subjects… THE GOLDEN AGE OF TV Regardless of whether this is something we’re in […]
BBC WRITERS ROOM: COMEDY ROOM FEEDBACK
INDIE TRAINING FUND Courses that I’m running in the next few months- May 19th 1 Day SCRIPT EDITING ESSENTIALS http://www.indietrainingfund.com/courses/script-editing-essentials/?event=3953 June 21st 1 Day STORY, CHARACTER & IDEAS MASTER-CLASS http://www.indietrainingfund.com/courses/narrative/?event=4060 Hi There, This week, a guest blog by screenwriter LAURENCE TRATALOS. Via my website, I’ve worked with Laurence […]
SCREENWRITING COURSE: WHAT I LEARNT
INDIE TRAINING FUND Courses that I’m running in the next few months- May 19th 1 Day SCRIPT EDITING ESSENTIALS http://www.indietrainingfund.com/courses/script-editing-essentials/?event=3953 June 21st 1 Day STORY, CHARACTER & IDEAS MASTER-CLASS http://www.indietrainingfund.com/courses/narrative/?event=4060 Hi There, Last weekend was the latest iteration (a word I learnt on my holiday in LA where it is used endlessly) of […]
REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL PT 27
Hi There, REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL PART 27 Things I’ve enjoyed recently – screenwriting-connected – and some things only very tenuously connected to screenwriting. I went on two long-haul flights recently and managed to cram in 7 movies in the process. The ones I enjoyed most were – 99 HOMES You may have read my […]
GENERATING IDEAS
Hi There, 3 weeks ago I was running my CREATIVITY FOR SCRIPTWRITERS course in London, and it was another very enjoyable, creatively charged day. What always strikes me about this course is the number of brilliant ideas that come out of it – ideas that I encourage the writers to develop beyond the course. The […]
BEAU WILLIMON BFI INTERVIEW Pt2
Hi There, This is PART 2 of my notes of the BFI BEAU WILLIMON interview from last week – ‘Got an agent by writing a pilot for AMC. In grad school – assignment to come up with series idea. I’d come up with a story about a cotton plantation from the slaves’ perspective. Wrote this […]
BFI BEAU WILLIMON interview notes Pt1
Hi There, This week, PART 1 of notes from an interview I went to see last year at the BFI in London with BEAU WILLIMON, writer of HOUSE OF CARDS. Season 4 of HOUSE OF CARDS will be on Netflix on March 4th. BFI – BEAU WILLIMON Why do you write? Because I have to […]
THEMES, EXPOSITION & AGENDA
SPOTLIGHT + THE BIG SHORT – Themes, Agenda & Exposition ‘We’re living in an era of fraud in America. Not just in banking. But in government, education, food, religion, journalism, prisons, baseball…’ Mark Baum, THE BIG SHORT ‘Rider implicated after motor found on bike at world cyclo-cross championships… on Saturday a hidden booster motor was […]
CHANNEL 4 SCREENWRITING COURSE 1ST WEEKEND
CREATIVITY FOR SCRIPTWRITERS 1 day course London Sunday Feb 7th 2016 A course for scriptwriters in all media – TV, film, radio, theatre – designed to help you generate exciting ideas and characters, and give your creativity a boost with a day of fun, stimulating writing exercises. Run by TV drama script editor, producer and […]
