Archive for the ‘Training’ Category
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Can you defend yourself from verbal attack? Review: Verbal Aikido Green & Orange Belt by Luke A Archer
19 Dec 2017It may surprise you that a verbal attack can be much trickier and more difficult to deal with than a…
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How to avoid the crime fiction trap
25 Nov 2015Crime is the post popular genre in fiction and on screen today, but many writers fall into the crime fiction trap.…
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What writers can learn from Andy Murray
31 Jan 2015I wouldn’t have thought there was anything that writers could learn from Andy Murray, but today I read Barney Ronay…
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Review: Writing for TV: Series, Serials and Soaps
06 Aug 2014This excellent book on Writing for TV by Yvonne Grace has already taken up a permanent place on my bookshelf.…
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How to write a script report, and why it’s good for your writing
16 Nov 2013Check out this excellent article by the always excellent Lucy V. Hay. Right on the money. I’d add three things,…
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Two simple ways to add power to your pitching
10 Sep 2013If you want to pitch with power, here are two powerful ingredients that are often forgotten by script gurus although they are used to powerful effect in almost every successful TV drama or cinema film.
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Simple song rises above the battlefield
08 Apr 2013Last night I learned a great deal that I wasn't expecting to - both about war and about writing.
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How you can use not knowing to write better scripts
10 Jun 2012The strange realisation hit me the other day: the more I write, the less sure I become about all my theories about writing. One day, with luck, I'll be sure about nothing at all. This is not an argument for ignorance.
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Good movie? Where did it come from?
11 Jan 2012Cameron wants us to make blockbusters. David Cameron, that is, not James. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9006675/Ken-Loach-pouring-lottery-money-into-blockbusters-is-a-travesty.html Speaking as a film director, and director…
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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?
