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Upcoming courses How to Write a Screenplay – starts 1 September Venice Writing Retreat, Venice, Italy – 6 to 13 September Creative Writing Course, Online – starts 9 October Creative Writing [...]

 Let us walk you through the entire screenwriting process with our Writing for Film and Television Courses We’ll provide you with the skills you need, help you conceive of and develop your idea … [...]

I spoke a week or two ago about getting stuck in a piece of writing, and having to work out what the problem is before you can push on. That “getting stuck” is a little too generic to be of much [...]

Upcoming courses How to Write a Screenplay – starts 1 September Venice Writing Retreat, Venice, Italy – 6 to 13 September Creative Writing Course, Online – starts 9 October Creative Writing [...]

He uses variants of the phrase “he rolled his eyes” four times in Open Season; three times in the next book in the series, Savage Run; thirteen times in his next, Trophy Hunt; once in his next, [...]

  Upcoming courses How to Write a Screenplay – starts 1 September Venice Writing Retreat, Venice, Italy – 6 to 13 September Stow-on-the-Wold Writing Weekend Writing Workshop, Cotswolds, [...]

Today we crossed London from Paddington Basin in the heart of the West End to Limehouse Basin in the east. It’s a journey of nine miles, and descends through twelve locks. It took us all of seven [...]

Devising a movie treatment is difficult, and the producer you present it to unforgiving. If the story doesn’t grab him (or her) at once and if the characters are not compelling then you might as [...]

Upcoming courses How to Write a Screenplay – starts 1 September Venice Writing Retreat, Venice, Italy – 6 to 13 September Stow-on-the-Wold Writing Weekend Writing Workshop, Cotswolds, United [...]

Trish and I have just spent six weeks slowly working our way down the Thames River in our narrowboat Patience. We’re on the Grand Union Canal now, moored up in Paddington Basin in the heart of [...]

We’d come off the tidal Thames – a writhing, contained beast of a river whose coils you can feel flexing beneath the surface of the water – onto the Grand Union Canal at Brentford, in London’s [...]

Your challenge for August is to write a scene set on or around water. That might be a river, the sea, a pond or a swimming pool. It might even, convceivably, be a puddle covered in a film of [...]