Published in June 27th, 2007
I’ve learned the best route into the BBC yesterday for writers with no TV experience. Thought I’d pass it on…
I had the first draft meeting on my screenplay yesterday. About 4 hours of good conversation about the script, in which the the Script Editor and Producer ran through their ideas for how the thing ought to [...]
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Published in June 22nd, 2007
Now my eBook is launched, it’s time I got back to writing my episode.
As it’s a medical show I’ve written out the bulk of the ‘drama’ and now I’m waiting for call backs from the various medical advisors so that we can straighten out the medical action and dialogue and I can start to plug [...]
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Published in June 20th, 2007
It’s finally launched.
This eBook has been a very long time coming, and I’m just as excited by the whole thing as I was when I had the initial idea.
Six, nearly seven months in the making, and I have tried to make it as pared down, as concise, and content filled, and as downright USEFUL as [...]
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Published in June 18th, 2007
Some of you have been saying words to the effect that: “it’s all very well writing the best screenplay in the world, but I’ll never be able to handle those hard nosed studio types, so what’s the point of even starting?”
Well, here’s what you do… Assume through hook or by crook, or by deal with [...]
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Published in June 14th, 2007
So yesterday my script editor called me and said they were happy with the storyline and I should start writing the script. Could they have it in 8 days please. (This is an hour’s tv.) I was so startled I just laughed, then I realised they were serious. A swift bit of haggling later and [...]
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Published in June 13th, 2007
I’m late to comment, I know, but I just saw the Sopranos last episode, and I had no idea what was going to happen. All I’ll say is my jaw dropped. Can’t remember seeing THAT before…! Nice one Mr Chase.
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Published in June 13th, 2007
Here’s a question: “How do I get Company ABC to read my script when I am only an XYZ?”
Here’s my answer:
“The problem isn’t that you’re “only” an XYZ, the problem isn’t even that they won’t read your script, because an awful lot of companies actually will read your submission (even though it may take them [...]
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Published in June 8th, 2007
There is a certain type of writer who believes the two are incompatible. Writers like this believe the heart wants to be free, and to respond to the emotions directly, and not be driven through rigid channels imposed from somewhere outside. They think the heart wants to just WRITE.
Well, maybe. But there is something the heart [...]
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Published in June 7th, 2007
I saw this by accident, with a friend who’d just had some terrible news about a TV movie she is producing (change of regime high up in the network means all the projects on the development slate, even the ones with a theoretical green light, get canned, or run into unfeasible demands. Typical. But not good, seeing [...]
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Published in June 7th, 2007
Well, I don’t know where my sudden need to give my posts mythical creature headlines comes from, but, then again, writing is all about applying mythical structures, so that must be where my head is right now.
Not a lot to report at this point - I’m deep in battle with the storyline for this show I’m [...]
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Published in June 5th, 2007
Just a quick one - it drives me crazy to see all the billions of people out there insisting you have to format your screenplay in such and such a way, on so an so paper, punched here and there, margins specified down to the last nth of a millimetre in all directions.
Look, it really [...]
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Published in June 5th, 2007
The last few weeks I’ve been going out of town to a Detention Centre for Young Offenders. It’s research for another show. The producer I’m working with has secured access to this place for a few sessions spread over a month or so, and she and I are going over there twice a week to spend [...]
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Published in June 4th, 2007
Just back from a day with my producer and script editor for a brainstorm about this continuing drama episode I’m doing. I have to say, I entered this with some trepidation - this kind of meeting can be excrutiating. However today was great. We managed to tear the whole thing apart, toss all the bits [...]
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Published in June 3rd, 2007
You never forget your first time. And if we are talking about the first time you write a script, well, the script will probably never get made, but it will always be special.
Mine was a piece that I’d written as a short story years before and tried to sell to any place I could find that [...]
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Published in June 2nd, 2007
Today it was baking hot outside, and people were heading for the country and the beach, but I had to stay inside in my office because there’s still a lot of work to be done on the website and pre launch for the Screenwriting Goldmine Ebook. I know it’s worth doing, but, wow, it was [...]
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