Category: Thoughts on Screenwriting

Hi There, On Wednesday afternoon I was lucky enough to go to a matinee preview at the National Theatre of the revival of LONDON ROAD.

DRAMATIC IRONY by Tom Hanham HELP! I don’t have much time. I’m being held hostage and Philip Shelley is forcing me to write a newsletter,

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

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

  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

Hi There, It’s blindingly obvious that the most important thing for budding screenwriters is your writing – your ability to tell a story compellingly and

BIOPICS It seems to me that BIOPICS are one of the hardest genres to nail. There are just so many pitfalls to avoid with this

Hi There, Please bear with this – there is a story telling reason for it!… In August last year (2023) I went to watch my

  MONTAGE IN SCREENPLAYS I’ve been thinking about MONTAGE recently – when does it work? What makes a good montage? What makes a bad montage?

Hi There, This fortnight’s screenwriting newsletter is the penultimate reader feedback from the 2024 Channel 4 screenwriting course readers. (The final missive by the brilliant