Posts Tagged with ‘character’
The 5 Best True Crime Books of 2019
07 Jan 2020For the first post of the year, I’m delighted to welcome guest-blogger Desiree Villena, a lifelong true crime aficionado. Today…
Paris by noir – Review: Clementina by Simon Cann
13 Jun 2019Paris by noir – review: Clementina by Simon Cann Last week I wrote about honesty in writing – how it…
What I learned from the World Cup
21 Jun 2018Bored with the World Cup? Take another look. Football has probably taught me more about people and psychology than anything…
Darkness in the Pacific: Review – Black Water by Louise Doughty
02 Mar 2018Review: Black Water by Louise Doughty. Agents, publishers, books on writing tell you to write about nice characters who grow…
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.…
Writing a gripping thriller
21 Oct 2014I’m delighted to be talking about Writing a Gripping Thriller for Hayley McKenzie’s blog ScriptAngel – you can read the full…
Review: Straight White Male
10 Oct 2014Straight White Male by John Niven My rating: 4 of 5 stars How do you succeed in creating a difficult…
Use the Bake Off rule to improve your scripts
19 Aug 2014Bake Off is back. But is there something we can learn from the series’ success? Aside from how to bake a…
What the World Cup taught me about screenwriting
04 Jun 2014I have to confess: much of what I know about life, let alone screenwriting, has come from football, and in…
How do writers come up with character names for their scripts?
13 Jan 2014Could you do more when it comes to naming characters in your scripts? Top of my list of faults are names that are bland, cliché, too similar, or just plain wrong. But how do the top writers do it?
