The Great Final Draft Giveaway - Results!

Published in November 19th, 2007

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!It’s past midnight on Sunday here in the UK, and I’ve just been counting the votes, and re-reading the quite exceptional comments that have been pouring in on this blog over the last month.
There has been so much fine [...]

Script Writing on the Web - Freedom at Last!

Published in November 13th, 2007

Posted by Phil Gladwin in Selling Yourself

22 Comments

A comment AMZ made in one of the threads about Quarterlife:
http://www.screenwritinggoldmine.com/blog/the-great-final-draft-giveaway-2/2007/10/24/
reminds me of a discussion we were having and I’ve been meaning to write about for a while.
It’s fairly clear to me and a lot of the TV people I know that our future as writers/producers/directors is heavily bound up with the future of the [...]

Script Writing Strike in the UK?

Published in November 5th, 2007

Posted by Phil Gladwin in Screenwriting

14 Comments

Script writing is unusually politicised at the moment. I’ve just been reading two fascinating articles on the Writers Guild of America script writers strike.
Two points stand out:
From http://artfulwriter.com/archives/2007/11/where_i_stand.html
“If we strike… in many ways, it’s akin to a prison riot. We’ll kill a guard or two, light some mattresses on fire, a few snitches will get [...]