News, Tips & Advice

I have been writing these fortnightly newsletters for over a decade on many different aspects of screenwriting and storytelling. So this has grown into a fairly huge online resource for screenwriters.

We have tried to break the newsletters into useful categories so that you can access the subjects that interest you.
I have covered many subjects over the years – including PITCHING, CHARACTERISATION, LITERARY AGENTS, many recommendations of inspiring and brilliant shows and scripts; and interviews with many fascinating screenwriters and producers.

I hope you will have fun dipping into some of the old newsletters; and I hope that they will be helpful and energising for your screenwriting.

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CREATIVITY FOR SCRIPTWRITERS 1 day course London Saturday June 21st. A course for scriptwriters in all media – TV, film, radio, theatre – designed to help you generate exciting ideas

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CHARACTERS AND STORY

CREATIVITY FOR SCRIPTWRITERS 1 day course London June 21st. A course for scriptwriters in all media – TV, film, radio, theatre – designed to help you generate exciting ideas and

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SCREENWRITERS WHO INSPIRE

Hi There, This week, Part 2 of your answers to the question: Which contemporary screenwriter\s do you find the most inspiring and why? ‘Jimmy Gardner: writer of Outlaws, The Cops

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SCREENWRITING NOTES PART 3

  Hi There,  Last week I mentioned character ideas pitched to me by my CREATIVITY FOR SCRIPTWRITERS course at the Actors Centre, London. This week I was asked by my

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SCREENWRITING LISTS

Hi There, This week a bit of a jumble of – RANDOM SCREENWRITING THOUGHTS YOUNGERS First off I’d like to make a Guardian-style CORRECTION. Two weeks ago I credited Levi

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RADIO DRAMA – JOHN DRYDEN

Hi There, This week, a guest article by writer \ director JOHN DRYDEN. JOHN is a talented screenwriter but is most known for his pioneering work in radio drama, where

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