If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!When I launched Screenwriting Goldmine back in June I was unprepared for two things:
1. The genuine warmth of your response. The people that read the book seem to have loved the method and been stimulated into writing in exactly [...]

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I strongly recommend you set up your story so the Hero beats the Villain in the end:

Audiences prefer happy endings. And why not? Who doesn’t like the sun? Who, honestly, doesn’t instinctively gravitate towards light, and warmth, and positive energy?
Why would you want to spend three months of your life on creating more negativity for [...]

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I’m getting a lot of emails from people telling me about appalling experiences with screenwriting competitions.
The process of sending your script off plus an (often high) entry fee to what appears to be a very reputable competition, then hearing nothing, ever - or even receiving actually abusive coverage - seems far too common.
I find it [...]

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There’s a heck of a lot of local tv and radio attention being paid to these radio plays. They are being performed and recorded this week in three different regional theatres, and some of the press is no doubt just the usual work to get an audience - but I feel there’s another angle to [...]

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Back! Finally finally sorted out the problem that took the blog offline. A nice support person at my hosting company tells me it was all to do with memory allocations and PHP files being in the wrong directories. Sounds plausible enough. Anyway, sorted.
Now, where was I?
So as far as I am concerned, the radio shows [...]

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The length of time it takes to load pages on here has been driving me mad for weeks now. I’ve been in all the forums looking for answers, and tried a whole set of different things to no avail - this blog takes ages to load each page.
I wanted to ask you - how much [...]

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I’ve noticed some very interesting differences between writing for the two forms. Currently I’m about halfway through the first draft of these radio plays. I can’t helping some differences between writing for the screen, which I’ve done a fair bit of, and writing for the radio, which I’ve never done before.
Actually, there is one further [...]

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