Posts Tagged with ‘film’
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Ways to be a Great Writer: #2
22 Nov 2010No 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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How to be a screenwriting success – Not just 10,000 hours part 2
15 Nov 2010All great artists – writers, film-makers, musicians, etc – think outside the box. They learn the rules, and then they learn to master them and break them. They break them so effectively that they make new rules for others to keep.
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A Sure-Fire Way Not To Sell Your First Script
12 Oct 2010I see loads of well-written scripts (and a fair load of badly written scripts too) and I've seen just about every fault that writers have ever invented. But there's one flaw that stands out as being the real killer.
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The Kindest Cut
07 Oct 2010Here's a tip that will work for just about every script, novel, short story, short film, movie or TV series.
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How to make a drama out of a story
20 Sep 2010Having 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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Writing Tip For Creating Rich and Surprising Characters
28 Jul 2010I'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 2010What 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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Tip: Writing for Low Budget
09 Mar 2010Here's a crucial tip for writing low budget scripts: Quality actors cost. And of course you want to have the best acting. So, how do you write parts that can be played well by the actors the budget can afford?
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Money, Money, Money…
04 Feb 2010I want to talk about a small strategy that may seem simple and yet if you use it has the power to push the sales of your scripts/films/novels/etc through the roof. It's one that's so easy it almost feels like cheating and yet when it's done well it's highly artistic and connects very directly with your audience.
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Ultra-short Pitching Competition – The Answers
12 Jan 2010A few days ago, I wrote about the industry's most famous pitch - a mere three words - "Jaws in Space." It was the original pitch for Alien. And I promised to tell you about a two word and a one word pitch - the only ones I know of.
