COURSE UPDATE + BEST DRAMA 2019
Hi There, Happy New Year! I hope you had a relaxing / productive break and are creatively fired up for 2020. COURSE UPDATE There are still places available on my 3 courses for Feb & March (although only 4 places left on the WRITING A SHORT FILM SCRIPT course). Plans for the 1 DAY INTRODUCTION […]
NEW SCREENWRITING COURSES FOR 2020
Hi There, NEW SCREENWRITING COURSES FOR 2020 Just in time for Christmas I’m very happy to tell you about three courses I will be running in the first few months of the New Year. ONE DAY INTRODUCTION TO SCREENWRITING London Saturday Feb 8th This will be the 2nd time I have run this course and […]
CHANNEL 4 SCREENWRITING COURSE SCRIPT FEEDBACK Part 2
Hi There, CHANNEL 4 SCREENWRITING COURSE 2020 We have now short-listed and informed the 37 writers for interview and I will be emailing everyone else who applied in the next day or two. THE BRIT LIST 2019 The 24 scripts on this year’s TV BRIT LIST were announced last week. This is the list of […]
CHANNEL 4 SCREENWRITING COURSE SCRIPTS – A RESPONSE
Hi There, This week, a few thoughts about / responses to the scripts I’ve been reading for the last few weeks for the C4 screenwriting course. As ever, it’s been a fascinating, mentally stimulating, exciting and exhausting process. A huge thank you to all of you who have submitted. I appreciate the huge amount of […]
SCREENWRITING STRATEGY
Hi There, This week I’d like to share with you a very excellent thread that I came across on twitter by US screenwriter CHRISTOPHER MCQUARRIE (The Usual Suspects, Mission Impossible, The Tourist, etc). As I am working my way through the 1454 scripts we received for the 2020 Channel 4 screenwriting course (with the help […]
LONDON FILM FESTIVAL 2019 HIGHLIGHTS
Hi There, Over the last couple of weeks I have been making my annual visit to the LONDON FILM FESTIVAL and have seen many extremely good films. From a story telling POV it was quite inspiring to reflect on how different the 9 films I saw were in tone and subject matter; and it’s been […]
10 SCREENWRITING QUESTIONS – KATE TRAILL
Hi There, This week a massive thank you to excellent screenwriter KATE TRAILL for her wonderfully entertaining and insightful answers to my 10 SCREENWRITING QUESTIONS. But before that, I would like to thank you for the wonderful and overwhelming response to what Kat Roberts and I wrote in the last newsletter. I have never received […]
POSH! – YOUR RESPONSES
BONUS NEWSLETTER! This is an addition to my Oct 4th 2019 newsletter – the pick of the responses to my POSH! Newsletter about boarding schools, private education etc of Sept 20th 2019. So many fascinating, thoughtful, disarmingly truthful and constructive responses here to what is clearly a subject that means a lot to a lot […]
POSH!
Hi There, Please indulge me this week as I go somewhat off-topic. And be assured that I will be back talking about dramatic writing in two weeks time! BUT the question of private education and the sort of leaders it’s producing is painfully relevant at the moment as we’re shamefully represented by the self-serving, mendacious […]
CHANNEL 4 SCREENWRITING COURSE 2020
Hi There, CHANNEL 4 SCREENWRITING COURSE 2020 After a very enjoyable summer break I’m delighted to say that the 10th CHANNEL 4 SCREENWRITING COURSE 2020 will be accepting script entries from Tuesday Sept 10th – up until Friday Sept 27th. All the information you need about the course and submitting your entry can be found […]
