Be The Best Writer You Can
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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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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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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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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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 [...]
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How To Write A Screenplay