Archive for the ‘Psychology’ Category
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Give your future readers a Christmas present
21 Dec 2011Christmas is coming and the writers are getting twitchy. Are you planning to use the glorious break from everyday life…
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Is your script predictable?
14 Dec 2011I’ve read hundreds of scripts by very competent writers, and very few have ever given me a single moment of…
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Writing successfully in a recession
15 Nov 2011I’m thinking a good deal about creativity at the moment, as I prepare for the launch of my next novel.…
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Find Time for Your Real Writing
07 Nov 2011My son Oliver, whose first novel The Hollow Man came out this year (it’s great and I’m not biased) has…
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How to get writing by getting nasty
24 Oct 2011WRITING BY GETTING NASTY What links Tom Waits, suicide and the Klu Klux Klan? They’ve all come up in a…
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Want to succeed? Maybe do the opposite.
30 Aug 2011Have you heard of Kelly Marcel? If not yet, you soon will. You'll probably, if you're like me, be deeply and painfully jealous. And something she said recently might teach us something important.
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How long should your treatment be?
25 Aug 2011I've been running my Exciting Treatments workshop for over ten years now, and one of the first questions I'm asked is alway, How long is a treatment supposed to be?
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Just one trick for screenwriting success
16 Aug 2011How can the most successful video on YouTube help you find screenwriting success?
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How to become a better writer? You may be surprised by the answer.
21 Jun 2011They all say practice makes perfect. But does it help you become a better screenwriter? Maybe it doesn't help as much as everyone thinks. Or maybe there's another issue here that you need to address if you are going to succeed in movies or TV.
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Why do we call them Screen – Plays?
03 Jun 2011Want your script to stand out from the crowd? Want it to be read from cover to cover and passed…
