The bare bones guide to screenplay 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 […]
Monday Motivation: How to get unstuck
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 […]
Monday Motivation: Don’t roll your eyes, madam, at me
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 […]
Monday Motivation: The devil’s in the detail
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 […]
If you’re serious about screenwriting, then this is the course you need
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 […]
August Newsletter: Words on water or immortal prose?
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 […]
Monday Motivation: When a lock becomes the key
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 […]
August Writing Challenge
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, […]
And the winner of the July Writing Challenge is…
Last month we dedicated our writing challenge to the creation of a creative community without borders, by sharing an international flash fiction contest, organised by the César Egido Serrano [...]
