November 2007

The Great Final Draft Giveaway – Results!

by Phil Gladwin on November 19, 2007

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 conversation going on that it simply has to continue. I’ve set up a forum at [...]

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Script Writing on the Web – Freedom at Last!

by Phil Gladwin on November 13, 2007

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 [...]

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Script Writing Strike in the UK?

by Phil Gladwin on November 5, 2007

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 [...]

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