Posts Tagged with ‘creativity’
Four steps to starting a compelling script
10 Sep 2012People often ask how to get ideas. Of course ideas are all around. What they mean is where do you find ideas you know will work. Ideas that will stay alive and grow. Nothing is certain, but I've found these four steps will ignite my blue touch-paper.
Stuck? A simple way to get your work moving.
09 Mar 2012Here's a deceptively simple method for literally getting your work to move forwards - but don't be fooled. Like many simple ideas it can be profoundly useful. It works for all kinds of screenwriting, and other creative work, and also for problems in directing and producing.
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.…
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…
Writers’ Resolutions
30 Dec 2010Have you made a New Year’s Resolution? To start that script? Or finish it? To start selling the novel you…
Planning to write over the holidays? Here’s a Christmas tip.
22 Dec 2010Many writers put aside time to write over the holidays. It can be a great idea, and it can also…
Ways to be a Great Writer: #3
14 Dec 2010Today we have an attribute that I didn’t recognise for a long time. When great artists of all kinds are…
The 21st Century Screenplay
10 Nov 2010One of my all-time favourite screenwriting books has been Linda Aronson’s Screenwriting Updated – and now she’s updated it! The…
