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Posts Tagged with ‘drama’

  • Belgravia with batons: Philharmonia, love or hate it?

    19 Jun 2020

    PHILHARMONIA, LOVE OR HATE? There’s a new argument dividing our household? Forget Brexit, Trump or whether social distancing is a…

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  • Why most people are crap at persuading

    22 May 2020

    GETTING GOOD AT PERSUADING This message was intended solely for writers and film-makers, until I realised that pitching and persuading…

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  • Angry movies at the Baftas

    29 Jan 2020

    ANGRY MOVIES AT THE BAFTAS We live in angry times, it seems. So I shouldn’t have been surprised when I…

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  • Panto season – oh, yes it is, oh, no…

    27 Nov 2019

    PANTO SEASON The panto season has started early this year. Everyone loves live entertainment. (I’m even doing a live appearance…

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  • What I learned from the World Cup

    21 Jun 2018

    Bored with the World Cup? Take another look. Football has probably taught me more about people and psychology than anything…

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  • Historical drama on screen – to write or not to write?

    09 Dec 2016

    Historical drama is big in TV and film at the moment, but is it a good idea to write one?…

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  • Writing a gripping thriller

    21 Oct 2014

    I’m delighted to be talking about Writing a Gripping Thriller for Hayley McKenzie’s blog ScriptAngel – you can read the full…

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  • Use the Bake Off rule to improve your scripts

    19 Aug 2014

    Bake Off is back. But is there something we can learn from the series’ success? Aside from how to bake a…

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  • What the World Cup taught me about screenwriting

    04 Jun 2014

    I have to confess: much of what I know about life, let alone screenwriting, has come from football, and in…

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  • How do writers come up with character names for their scripts?

    13 Jan 2014

    Could 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?

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