CAT JONES 20 WRITING QUESTIONS
CREATIVITY FOR SCRIPTWRITERS 1 day course London Saturday Nov 15th 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 script […]
AMERICAN STORY-TELLING
CREATIVITY FOR SCRIPTWRITERS 1 day course London Saturday Nov 15th 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 script […]
BREAKING BAD REVISITED
CREATIVITY FOR SCRIPTWRITERS 1 day course London Saturday Nov 15th 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 script […]
20 QUESTIONS FOR SCREENWRITERS
Hi There, This week a bit of a round-up of my recent screenwriting-related activity. First though I’d like to say a huge THANK YOU to all of you who have shared your thoughts on screenwriting \ writing and more! It makes writing this weekly blog enormously rewarding when I get so much great feedback from […]
SUCCESSFUL SCREENPLAY ELEMENTS Part 2
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FEMALE SCREENWRITERS – CAN THEY DO IT LIKE MEN?
CREATIVITY FOR SCRIPTWRITERS Now Booking – 1 day course London Saturday November 15th. A course for scriptwriters in all media – TV, film, radio, theatre – designed to help you generate exciting story ideas, create original character characters, and give your creativity a boost with a day of fun, stimulating writing exercises. Run by TV […]
ELEMENTS OF A CREATIVELY SUCCESSFUL SCREENPLAY
Hi There, This week Part 1 (of 2) of your answers to the final question I asked in my survey from last year – What do you consider the most important element for a (creatively) successful screenplay? ‘I think the most important element for a creatively successful screenplay is a sense that the characters’ lives […]
CHANNEL 4 SCREENWRITING COURSE 2014
Hi There, CHANNEL 4 SCREENWRITING COURSE 2014 It’s been a hectic couple of weeks, in which I’ve been in the thick of this year’s C4 course. We had the 2nd weekend on June 14 & 15 and a drinks evening at Channel 4 on Wednesday evening. By the 2nd weekend (the first weekend was back […]
STORY-TELLING : 112 WEDDINGS
Hi There, DOCUMENTARIES Pt2 : ‘112 Weddings’ I went to see a screening of this film and Q&A with its director DOUG BLOCK and editor MAEVE O’BOYLE at the Phoenix cinema East Finchley on Wednesday. Like many of the best films, this was predicated on a very simple but very good idea. Documentary film-maker Doug […]
STORY-TELLING: DOCUMENTARY \ DRAMA CROSSOVERS
DOCUMENTARY STORY-TELLING One of the first things I learned as a budding script editor was that just because something was true, if it was lifted directly from a writer’s life, didn’t mean that it automatically worked as drama. Many times I’ve been in a script meeting and initiated a discussion of a story element and […]
