Posts Tagged with ‘movie’
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Screenwriter
22 Sep 2011I have a soft spot for Le Carré and I went to see Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy with certain trepidation.…
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If you want to sell your script, don’t get stuck on the bridge
26 Jul 2011IS YOUR SCRIPT STUCK ON THE BRIDGE? Back from holiday, I’ve been thinking about a massive underpublicised reason why far…
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One question that will help you sell your script
03 Jul 2011What is the key question you need to ask to sell your script? The right question follows soon. First here's the wrong question.
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Pitching: What’s Love Got To Do With It?
08 Apr 2011Where do you fit the emotion into the cold hard-nosed job of pitching?
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How not to sell your script
14 Jan 2011Last 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 2010Have 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: #3
14 Dec 2010Today we have an attribute that I didn’t recognise for a long time. When great artists of all kinds are…
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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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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…
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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.
