BFI FILM ACADEMY Q&A PART 2
Hi There, Last Saturday I did a zoom talk on screenwriting for the BFI Film Academy. The last 15 minutes of the session consisted of me answering questions from the attendees but there were so many questions that I could only answer a small selection, SO in this newsletter I will be attempting to answer […]
LAURENCE TRATALOS guest blog
Hi There, This week, I’m absolutely delighted to share with you the first of several screenwriter guest blogs. I am so grateful to the brilliant, generous people who have written these guest blogs – and I hope you enjoy them as much as I have. SO for the next few weeks, the screenwriting newsletter will […]
INTERVIEWS & RECOMMENDATIONS
Hi There, From this week onwards, for the next few weeks, I will be sending out this newsletter WEEKLY rather than fortnightly as I have some really excellent gust blogs that I’d like to share with you. So the next few editions will alternate from week to week between my musings and guests writing on […]
SCREENWRITING INTERVIEW
Hi There, I hope you are continuing to cope with the weirdness of social isolation and still managing to find the headspace for writing and creativity. Here is the text from an interview I did earlier this week about various aspects of screenwriting with Hanna Peretz, a Film & TV producer based in Sweden – […]
CREATIVITY IN LOCKDOWN
Hi There, I hope you are all keeping well in these strange and severely restricted times. It seems we’re just going to have to be patient, be kind to ourselves and each other and try – although sometimes it’s not easy – to keep feeding our creativity, as things we were looking forward to disappear […]
NEW SCREENWRITING COURSES + COURSE REVIEW
Hi There, I hope very much that you’re keeping safe and well and, above all, managing to remain calm, upbeat and anxiety-free in these very troubled times. I won’t go into detail about my feelings about how the situation is being ‘managed’ by the UK authorities because I am writing this on Monday and I’m […]
ONE PAGES PITCHES + FRANCE SCREENWRITING RETREAT
Hi There, I’m very pleased to announce that in September I will be running a 5 day SCREENWRITING COURSE / RETREAT in a beautiful, rural part of South Western France, near Limoges. All the details are on my website. This does feel like a slightly counter-intuitive time to be announcing a new venture abroad (!) […]
ONE PAGE PITCHES + SCREENWRITING RETREAT
Hi There, I’m very pleased to announce that in September I will be running a 5 day SCREENWRITING COURSE / RETREAT in a beautiful, rural part of South Western France, near Limoges. All the details are on my website. This does feel like a slightly counter-intuitive time to be announcing a new venture abroad (!) […]
DREAMS & STORIES
COURSE UPDATE – WRITING A SHORT FILM SCRIPT COURSE – SOLD OUT. CREATIVITY FOR SCRIPTWRITERS, March 8th – still a few places left. http://script-consultant.co.uk/training/ Hi There, DREAMS + STORY Are dreams part of your creative process? I remember dreams quite often and like to think about my dreams. It’s frustrating how they have that elusive […]
ONE PAGE PITCHES – A CHALLENGE
Hi There, ONE PAGE PITCHES These are among the most difficult documents to get right and one of the aspects of screenwriting that writers seem to agonise over most but they are also really important – very often the way to start a conversation with potential employers. I have read a huge amount of these […]
