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Posts Tagged with ‘draft’

  • So what’s so special about Scrivener? Review – Road Test

    23 Feb 2018

    Scrivener review road test: What’s so special about Scrivener? Some people love it – a few hate it. Almost everything…

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  • Five things they don’t tell you about screenplay structure

    25 Apr 2014

    There’s a great deal of hot air talked about screenplay structure – much more than about any other area of…

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  • If you want to write for cinema, learn to multi-task

    13 Aug 2013

    TO WRITE FOR CINEMA, MULTI-TASK Everything in a well-constructed cinema script carries out two, three or even more tasks. There’s…

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  • 6 techniques for making your writing visual

    10 Jul 2013

    Good visual writing puts pictures in the head of the reader without them realising you're doing it. Here are 8 ways of doing exactly that.

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  • Are we there yet?

    30 Jul 2012

    There must be something in the air: I’m in the mood for finishing things. I just finished writing a novel…

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  • Multitasking

    23 Feb 2011

    Newspapers tell us that women are better at it than men. Men tell us they are just as good really. Neurologists tell us that there's no such thing - is multitasking the answer to our creative problems?

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  • Writers’ Resolutions

    30 Dec 2010

    Have you made a New Year’s Resolution? To start that script? Or finish it? To start selling the novel you…

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  • Ways to be a Great Writer: #2

    22 Nov 2010

    No writer can survive without it. It's that crucial device that sits just between your ears and tells you when you're coming up with crap.

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  • Tips from Linda Aronson

    12 Nov 2010

    It was great seeing so many people last night at Euroscript for the conversation I had with Linda Aronson (writer…

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  • The Kindest Cut

    07 Oct 2010

    Here's a tip that will work for just about every script, novel, short story, short film, movie or TV series.

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