On my writer's group page Script Advice Writers Room the fabulous Lucy V Hay of www.bang2write.com and I coined a word for what script editors/writers who are also mothers do every day as we balance [...]
Are you trying to learn how to write a tv script? Writing for television requires the same fundamental skills as writing drama or fiction for any other medium, although you need to be looking at [...]
I've been helping writers via SCRIPT ADVICE since 2007 and it feels the right time now to collate the most oft-made mistakes I see in scripts and hope you find the don'ts useful to know [...]
I started in television in 1990 when the world was analogue not digital and mobile phones were Bengal Tiger rare. The only ones I regularly saw were those used by the film crew on location [...]
Holby City 1999. I had been asked by Mal Young (Head of Series drama at BBC1) to produce the second series of this critically acclaimed medical drama. The first series had not been the ratings [...]
I cut my drama teeth on Eastenders. This fact made two things true about me: 1/ That I thrive on pressure 2/ That I like making stories happen. To continue in a symetrical vein, this show [...]
I was a Script Editor on Eastenders. That's how I started in the television industry.Prior to my baptism of fire on the then twice weekly popular soap from the BBC, I had been running a [...]
