Search results for: treatments
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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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Losing faith in your work?
22 Mar 2012Losing faith in your work happens to the best writers - and it can be lethal. The story starts to feel flat. The emotions false. The scenes mechanical. Soon you wonder what you even saw in the idea.
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How to land a top star and the BBC with one treatment
13 Sep 2011Most people hate writing treatments. Not me, I love them. This is how I used a treatment to hook a top star comedian and the BBC in just five pages - and how you can too.
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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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Get it rite, not written
01 Apr 2011Most people understand if a few typos or stylistic solecisms slip through in an email or (perish the thought) in a blog post. These are informal media. But a treatment or script is different. Unlike other forms of writing, they can easily contain hidden traps.
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Recommended books for writers
17 Dec 2010There are thousands of recommended books for writers, most for beginners, rather fewer for the more advanced. All aim to…
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Favourite Books For Writers
10 Nov 2010There are a thousand books on writing and related subjects – from psychology to time management. You learn something from…