My son has Chicken Pox. He is not at school and as I type this, he watches his favourite Lego-themed DVD; 'Clutch Powers'; Malick The Maligned has stolen Clutch's father's Creation Spark....I feel a blog coming [...]
I have started watching ABC's 'Nashville' and am re-awakening my enjoyment of CBS's 'The Good Wife' on More4. The former is a big frothy bath of soap bubble and intrigue, set against the backdrop of the [...]
Over the last few months, via my work with writers at all levels of experience and development and through teaching writers at my workshops, I have found that for a lot of you, the area [...]
The London tube strike and the resulting crush and cram across our dear capital, could not diminish my hard-boiled enthusiasm for the day ahead and the workshop I was about to run for the Indie [...]
Writers are their own worst enemy. As a Producer, I had no problem believing in my opinions on drama, on television writing, on scripts; why some worked and why some didn't. I felt confident that [...]
Chain Link Fence (Photo credit: camknows) ATTENTION ALL STORY-TELLERS! If you follow me on Twitter, or are a member of my facebook group Script Advice Writer's Room, then you will know a bit [...]
Snow crystals 2b (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The nights are drawing in, 2013 is putting it's feet up. Now, with Cocoa in hand, I feel is a good time to give you the best [...]
Here's a super concentrated list of the slips and trips I most often see when reading scripts. But before that; I need to repeat the script writing mantra: * We are in the [...]
Those charming folk at the KFTV website; (use this to search for companies/agencies/individuals in the writing and film making business) link to a blog I wrote about what to expect as a writer, going into [...]
Marketing Bods beavering away in the back rooms of Consumer Cathedrals like Waitrose and Sainsbury's use the words Basic and Essential to draw the wider slice of the human consumer-pyramid towards products that are vital [...]
