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Archive for the ‘Mental Game’ Category

  • Small things can be important too

    13 Jun 2018

    Small things can be important too. Sometimes, I sweat for an hour over a paragraph, a line of dialogue, a…

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  • Fighting yourself? Here’s a way to stop.

    06 Jun 2018

    Fighting yourself? Have you ever started a project and found that for some reason you’re not moving ahead? Maybe you’re…

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  • Do criminals have free will – or is it all down to good and bad luck?

    02 May 2018

    Do criminals have free will? If you ever thought philosophy was for people with glasses and sticking-out ears who need…

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  • 12 top tips for quickly learning a language you’d love to know

    21 Apr 2018

    Interested in learning a language but think it might be too hard? Planning a holiday or meeting people from abroad? …

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  • Can you defend yourself from verbal attack? Review: Verbal Aikido Green & Orange Belt by Luke A Archer

    19 Dec 2017

    It may surprise you that a verbal attack can be much trickier and more difficult to deal with than a…

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  • Want to get ahead? Get good habits – Review: Daily Rituals

    06 Oct 2017

    If you want to improve at something, you can’t do better than studying the habits of people who’ve already done…

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  • Woody Allen on showing up

    10 Mar 2015

    This is a great extract from a Woody Allen interview and it sums up for me the importance of what I call the…

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  • 6+1 ways to stop research becoming procrastination

    29 Nov 2014

    Last week a writer asked for advice on how long you should do research and how do you know when it’s time…

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  • How to get writing by getting nasty

    24 Oct 2011

    WRITING BY GETTING NASTY What links Tom Waits, suicide and the Klu Klux Klan? They’ve all come up in a…

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  • Write as a Professional

    17 May 2011

    I'm busy planning the Euroscript Professional Screenwriting Mini-Summer School (June 24-26), which is devoted to helping TV and cinema screenwriters develop their skills to a higher professional level  - and I've been asking myself: what is it that makes the difference between a professional script and one that isn't?

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