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Six Things You Need To Know About Treatments
03 Nov 2012If you want to write for film or TV, then treatments, outlines, synopses (the terms are interchangeable in the industry) are something you have to get good at. And to write good treatments there are six things you'll need to know.
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Three Tips for Writing Treatments
05 Feb 2012Writing a good, compelling, readable treatment is tough. It's difficult enough to write a script - but then to boil the whole thing down from 90+ pages to one or two...! However it's a crucial part of a screenwriter's job. Here are three of my top tips.
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Want to enjoy writing treatments – find your voice
04 Feb 2011It's true screenplays don't offer a great variety of style or voice - but that doesn't apply to treatments, synopses and outlines. There are far fewer style rules for such outlines of your story.
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Write treatments with style
01 Sep 2010I've written before that good screenwriters often get tangled up writing treatments. One major reason is that they are simply using the wrong style.
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Writing Treatments – Get Out Of First Gear
20 Jan 2010Treatments are essential both for developing and for marketing your scripts - and yet many good screenwriters fail to write good treatments. It took me a long time to realise why.
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How the gurus who teach “show don’t tell” could ruin your treatment
09 Nov 2016All screenwriting gurus teach “Show don’t tell” – it’s one of the few things they all agree on. How can…
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The biggest synopsis mistake that writers make
11 Feb 2015THE BIGGEST SYNOPSIS MISTAKE I see hundreds of treatments and synopses and most have clearly been slaved over by their…
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12 essentials for writing a film or TV treatment
24 Oct 2013Writing a treatment for a screen story is one of the most difficult forms of writing there is. I know,…
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Four simple steps for writing a gripping treatment
06 Feb 2013Do you find it difficult to structure a treatment so that it grips the reader as strongly as the full…
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Treatment writing tip: It’s not how much, it’s how little!
04 Feb 2013OK, let’s face it, it can be tough writing a good treatment, cramming all the important events in a 99-120…
