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Archive for the ‘Character’ Category

  • Review: Straight White Male

    10 Oct 2014

    Straight White Male by John Niven My rating: 4 of 5 stars How do you succeed in creating a difficult…

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  • Use the Bake Off rule to improve your scripts

    19 Aug 2014

    Bake Off is back. But is there something we can learn from the series’ success? Aside from how to bake a…

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  • How do writers come up with character names for their scripts?

    13 Jan 2014

    Could you do more when it comes to naming characters in your scripts? Top of my list of faults are names that are bland, cliché, too similar, or just plain wrong. But how do the top writers do it?

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  • How to express yourself without killing your screenwriting career

    08 Nov 2013

    There's a phrase that's popular among writing courses at the moment - we're all expected to "express ourselves". Self-expression is the thing. And it certainly is, if you want to kill your career stone dead. This article tells you how to deal with big issues and get away with it.

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  • 8 ways to make your characters come vividly to life

    14 Jun 2013

    To create living, interesting characters, you need to draw on your experience of life, and add to it. Or to put it another way, bring us your unique take on people. Here are 8 ways to help you do exactly that.

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  • Fire Up Your Writing Career

    06 Mar 2013

    Here's a psychological tool to help with focusing your writer's mind - dealing with issues such as procrastination and self-sabotage, and staying creative.

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  • Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Screenwriter

    22 Sep 2011

    I have a soft spot for Le Carré and I went to see Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy with certain trepidation.…

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  • Writing Tip For Creating Rich and Surprising Characters

    28 Jul 2010

    I've got many ways that I use when I'm stuck, some wonderful tools for character development that I've picked up over the years. Here's a very simple method which can have very profound and surprising results.

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