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Posts Tagged with ‘drama’

  • Four simple steps for writing a gripping treatment

    06 Feb 2013

    Do you find it difficult to structure a treatment so that it grips the reader as strongly as the full…

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  • Give your flashbacks the kiss of life

    09 Jul 2012

    There are a thousand myths about flashbacks in scripts. Some people say you shouldn’t ever write them. Some people say…

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  • A Clever, Sneaky Way To Hide Exposition

    26 May 2011

    The ability to handle exposition really sorts the professionals from the wannabes, and I'm going to share one of my top exposition techniques with you here.

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  • How not to sell your script

    14 Jan 2011

    Last night I got a call from a company who I’d bought from before. The previous time, I spent good…

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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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  • How to make a drama out of a story

    20 Sep 2010

    Having a problem writing a drama script? Do you find it's full of wonderful character development but somehow it just doesn't come together? Or you like it but your story isn't getting across to the people who read it?

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  • Write treatments with style

    01 Sep 2010

    I've written before that good screenwriters often get tangled up writing treatments. One major reason is that they are simply using the wrong style.

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  • Sometimes the work goes slowly

    27 Aug 2010

    Back from holiday, ready to get back to the writing and everything slowed down. I felt ill, my back hurt, I was lethargic, my head spun, my brain felt full of fog. I had a hundred reasons for why I couldn't get down to it.

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  • Writing Tip For Creating Rich and Surprising Characters

    28 Jul 2010

    I've got many ways that I use when I'm stuck, some wonderful tools for character development that I've picked up over the years. Here's a very simple method which can have very profound and surprising results.

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  • A surprising way to become a Great Writer

    21 Jul 2010

    What is it that makes a great writer great? What can we learn from them and hope to emulate? OK, it's that time of year and maybe the heat's got to me, but I'm starting a list - my Top Ten Attributes displayed by the greatest writers - those I admire and honour. I don't mean that they use or don't use adverbs or three act structure. This is much more personal. And like every list it is totally fallible and biased and mainly intended to annoy, irritate and make people foam at the mouth.

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