Posts Tagged with ‘rules’
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Openings
19 Jun 2019Openings It was like they weren’t there. This is the opening sentence of my novel The Breaking of Liam Glass.…
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New Year’s Resolution: Break a Rule
07 Jan 2013I’m a great believer in resolutions – New Year and otherwise. Even if they only last a few days as…
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Want to enjoy writing treatments – find your voice
04 Feb 2011It's true screenplays don't offer a great variety of style or voice - but that doesn't apply to treatments, synopses and outlines. There are far fewer style rules for such outlines of your story.
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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…
