Archive for the ‘Technique’ Category
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8 ways to make your characters come vividly to life
14 Jun 2013To 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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9 steps to writing dialogue with rich subtext
16 May 20139 ways to get your subtext muscle working for readable, rich dialogue
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What if your story is unconvincing?
11 May 2013Here's a very nice blog post about what to do if you suddenly lose faith in what you're writing
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Fire Up Your Writing Career
06 Mar 2013Here'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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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…
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3 Ways to Make Sure Your Script Stands Out
09 Jan 2013Despite what most writers think, most scripts fail to sell not because they are too different, but because they are…
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New Year’s Resolution: Break a Rule
07 Jan 2013I’m a great believer in resolutions – New Year and otherwise. Even if they only last a few days as…
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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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What do you do next? Procrastinate?
04 Aug 2012Last Monday I talked about finishing. So after you’ve finished – what do you do next? Do you push on…
