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    Tag Archives for: "How to Write a Screenplay"
     Free Screenwriting Webinar: All your questions answered
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    In Invitations, Newsletters, Webinars
    Posted February 13, 2023

    Free Screenwriting Webinar: All your questions answered

    Find out everything you’ve always wanted to know about writing for the screen, whether for film or television, at our free screenwriting webinar. Ask Michele Rowe and Richard Beynon, two of South [...]

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     Lights, camera, action: our Screenwriting Crash Course starts 27 February
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    Posted February 8, 2023

    Lights, camera, action: our Screenwriting Crash Course starts 27 February

    Have you ever dreamed of writing for your favourite television series, or writing an award winning screenplay? Our Crash Course in Screenwriting will get you started and arm you with a range of [...]

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     Free Screenwriting Webinar: All your questions answered
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    In How to write a book, Webinars
    Posted June 28, 2021

    Free Screenwriting Webinar: All your questions answered

    Find out everything you’ve always wanted to know about writing for the screen, whether for film or television, at our free screenwriting webinar. Ask Michele Rowe and Richard Beynon, two of South [...]

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     What’s On in June: A free webinar, our flagship Creative Writing Course, a memoir workshop and more!
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    Posted June 1, 2021

    What’s On in June: A free webinar, our flagship Creative Writing Course, a memoir workshop and more!

    This June, we’ve got a buffet of courses and events for you to cherry-pick from. The month kicks off with our flagship Creative Writing Course, continues strong with a free memoir webinar [...]

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     Use our 20% discount to start writing your book or screenplay
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    In How to write a book, Promotions
    Posted May 28, 2021

    Use our 20% discount to start writing your book or screenplay

    Take advantage of our massive May discount of less 20% if you book and pay for any of these four courses by midnight on 31 May. Use the voucher code mayearlybird in either our UK shop or [...]

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     Crash course in (screen)writing excellence starts 18 January
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    In Screenwriting courses
    Posted January 13, 2021

    Crash course in (screen)writing excellence starts 18 January

    On 18 January our acclaimed Crash Course in Screenwriting for film and television gets under way. We assume that you’re already at least intensely curious about these visual media. We’ll satisfy [...]

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     Turn your idea into a script that producers will drool over
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    In Screenwriting courses
    Posted February 13, 2020

    Turn your idea into a script that producers will drool over

    All About Writing provides aspirant script and screenwriters with both the skills and advice they’ll need to turn good ideas (we’ll even help you with those!) into the sorts of stories that [...]

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     Learn the secrets to writing a tv hit
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    Posted May 31, 2019

    Learn the secrets to writing a tv hit

    Crash Course in Screenwriting When: Starts Monday 3 June and continues for five weeks Where: Online What’s involved: Ten modules with ten assignments to which you’ll receive personal [...]

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    Posted August 11, 2017

    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 then you might as [...]

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    In Screenwriting courses
    Posted May 28, 2017

    Scriptwriting support for booming feature industry

    South Africa’s feature film industry is mushrooming – and, as a result, is in desperate need of good home-grown scripts. “South Africa has a booming film industry with world class technicians,” [...]

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    Keep your friends close - and your neighbours clos Keep your friends close - and your neighbours closer. 

This week on the water - we shared printed copies of the free ebook “Murder as a Matter of Taste” with our neighbours who provide inspiration for the James Clatterbridge series. 

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    This week, Richard dives into the very heart of th This week, Richard dives into the very heart of the writing challenge:

“Every character you write is a character you are not.
I mean that quite literally. Yes, I know many of us base our early protagonists on ourselves...
Using yourself as your model for characters is quite natural. But the moment your protagonist ceases to be a direct copy of yourself – the moment you give her a different childhood, a different set of insecurities, a different way of entering a room – you are already doing the thing that some writers treat as a special and dangerous challenge. You are already inventing. You are already entering into the consciousness of another...
The challenge of writing characters who are not you is not an exception to the craft of fiction. It is the craft of fiction. It is what you are always doing, every time you sit down.
The question is not whether you can do it. The question is how you do it honestly.”

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    We’re thrilled that Bedford here in the UK is la We’re thrilled that Bedford here in the UK is launching a literary festival, Write by the River, in September. Richard’s contribution to help make it a success is a short writing workshop. If you live within striking distance of Bedford, then sign up for a free two hour workshop, The Power of Place.​ Link in bio. 

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    How do you write a memoir – from the first journ How do you write a memoir – from the first journal entry to the finished book on a shelf?

Watch the REPLAY of The Story Behind: Unbridling now up on our blog. Listen via the Link in our Bio. 

Sheryl and Sandy James, the mother and daughter behind the memoir Unbridling, joined Karina Szczurek and Kerry Hammerton of Indeed Books for a conversation about journaling, writing through difficult emotions, navigating the people in your story who are still living, and what it really takes to move from manuscript to published book.
It was a generous, collaborative discussion, and participants came away with both practical publishing advice and a renewed sense of permission to tell their own stories honestly.

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    This week, Richard asks writers to “copy the her This week, Richard asks writers to “copy the heron” - to “observe: watch, listen, make notes. Then consider all the ways in which what you’ve observed might be shaped to form a story, or be absorbed by a story to serve a dramatic need.” 

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    We have your weekend read all sorted! FREE JAMES We have your weekend read all sorted!

FREE JAMES CLATTERBRIDGE NOVELLA

Richard is thrilled to announce that a free digital copy of his novella, Murder as a Matter of Taste is now available. This forms part of the James Clatterbridge Series. Book one, Murder as a Working Hypothesis, is open for pre-orders.

There are worse places to live than Abbey Marina. The boats bob, the geese honk at all hours, and the neighbours know each other’s business rather too well – which is generally a comfort, and occasionally a problem.

It becomes a problem the evening James Clatterbridge – horror writer, houseboat dweller, and regular customer of the marina’s fish and chip van – finds Molly Whitcombe dead beside her fryer.

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    This week, Richard asks, "What does your protagoni This week, Richard asks, "What does your protagonist want?”

Not what happens to them. Not what you want – which might be to explore themes of enduring human significance. No. What does the person at the centre of your story want – specifically, urgently, to the point where they would do something really unwise to get it?

Grab a mug of tea or a coffee, or a glass of wine if so inclined, and dive into this week’s Monday Motivation because it will have you looking at wants, needs, and in between. 

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    ✍️FREE WEBINAR: The Story behind Unbridling - ✍️FREE WEBINAR: The Story behind Unbridling - Writing, Publishing and a Paralympic Bronze Medal✍️

We invite you to a free webinar with Sheryl and Sandy James, alongside Kerry Hammerton and Karina M. Szczurek of @indeedbooks for a conversation about writing and publishing Unbridling.

We'll explore what it means to shape a lived experience into a book: how two voices and two sets of memories became one narrative, and what the journey from journal to published manuscript looks like.

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