CHANNEL 4 SCREENWRITING COURSE 2025 – READER FEEDBACK – MATT MCNALLY
Hi There, This fortnight, some reader feedback from the excellent MATT MCNALLY, who covered 280 of your script entries for the 2025 Channel 4 screenwriting course – ‘I thought I’d write something for the unlucky writers. The ones looking for explanations, enlightenment, encouragement or just reasons to feel even more cheesed off. So here is […]
TWO MORE COURSES
Hi There, 2 more courses – 2 DAY SCREENWRITING COURSE, LONDON June 21-22 https://script-consultant.co.uk/2-day-screenwriting-course/ I’m really pleased to be running my 2 day / weekend screenwriting course again for the first time in 2 years. I’ve met so many wonderful writers over the years when running this course, many of whom I am still in […]
CHANNEL 4 SCREENWRITING COURSE SCRIPT READING FEEDBACK
Hi There, This fortnight, some of the notes I made as I was reading script submissions for the 2025 Channel 4 screenwriting course. None of these are ‘rules’ (there are no rules!), just observations I made in the moment of reading, thoughts that occurred to me in the process of reading so many scripts – […]
STORY AND DEATH
Yes, it’s a cheery one. At the risk of being extremely depressing, I have been thinking, for various reasons, about death quite a lot recently. And that led onto thinking about the connections between death and story. I went to a funeral last week – not someone who I was close to – an […]
ONE DAY INTRODUCTION TO SCREENWRITING COURSE March 22nd
ONE DAY INTRODUCTION TO SCREENWRITING COURSE London Saturday March 22nd I’m delighted to be running this one day course for the first time for 2 years and I am now taking bookings. Please see all the information and testimonials on the course page on my website – One Day Introduction to Screenwriting – Philip Shelley, […]
CHANNEL 4 SCREENWRITING COURSE 1ST WEEKEND FEEDBACK
Hi There, This fortnight I look back at the 1st weekend of the 2025 CHANNEL 4 SCREENWRITING COURSE, which we held at C4’s offices in London over the weekend of Jan 18 & 19. The weekend consists of a series of talks, q&a’s with some brilliant people from the TV drama industry – representatives […]
SCREENWRITING THE BOOK – NOW PUBLISHED!
Hi There, SCREENWRITING THE CRAFT AND THE CAREER by PHILIP SHELLEY Please excuse this 2nd newsletter about my book, published yesterday Thursday January 23rd – it’s important to me and I hope will be very useful to you. In two weeks time I will move onto other matters! It was very exciting to finally get […]
RANDOM MUSINGS ON SCREENWRITING & STORY
Hi There, And Happy New Year! My newsletter returns with some random musings about storytelling for the screen – TROPES & MYTHS I really enjoyed this question and answer from RICHARD LINKLATER’S Q&A in The Observer New Review on November 24th – ‘There’s a line early on in your latest film (HITMAN): “Hitmen don’t really […]
SCREENWRITING – THE CRAFT AND THE CAREER by PHILIP SHELLEY
Dear All, SCREENWRITING – THE CRAFT AND THE CAREER by PHILIP SHELLEY https://www.nickhernbooks.co.uk/screenwriting Following up on last Friday’s newsletter teaser, I’m delighted to be able to share with you that I have written a book about screenwriting which will be published by Nick Hern Books on January 23rd 2025 – and as of today Dec 5th is […]
A TEASER & SOME RECOMMENDATIONS
Hi There, This fortnight – a teaser and more recommendations. TEASER! I’ve been reading a LOT of these (teasers) in the scripts submitted for the 2025 Channel 4 screenwriting course and here is one of my own. I’ve been working on a particular, personal project for the last couple of years which is finally about […]
