Archive for the ‘Technique’ Category
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Wave Your Wooden Leg
02 Dec 2010Here’s a screenwriting tip that will make your life so much easier. And before I get to it, just a…
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The secret of telling a gripping true story
29 Nov 2010A true story can be a massive elephant trap. I know, I’ve fallen in more than once. Like pebbles straight…
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Tips from Linda Aronson
12 Nov 2010It was great seeing so many people last night at Euroscript for the conversation I had with Linda Aronson (writer…
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A Sure-Fire Way Not To Sell Your First Script
12 Oct 2010I see loads of well-written scripts (and a fair load of badly written scripts too) and I've seen just about every fault that writers have ever invented. But there's one flaw that stands out as being the real killer.
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The Kindest Cut
07 Oct 2010Here's a tip that will work for just about every script, novel, short story, short film, movie or TV series.
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How to make a drama out of a story
20 Sep 2010Having a problem writing a drama script? Do you find it's full of wonderful character development but somehow it just doesn't come together? Or you like it but your story isn't getting across to the people who read it?
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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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Sometimes the work goes slowly
27 Aug 2010Back from holiday, ready to get back to the writing and everything slowed down. I felt ill, my back hurt, I was lethargic, my head spun, my brain felt full of fog. I had a hundred reasons for why I couldn't get down to it.
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Writing Tip For Creating Rich and Surprising Characters
28 Jul 2010I'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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What is it about research?
12 Jul 2010What is it about research? I know that every minute spent on research is worth an hour doing anything else. Talking to people, in person, on the phone; reading books; checking out web sites; watching documentaries - it's all part of the job. And yet something stops me.
