Welcome writer, director, script guru and all round good fellow, Charles Harris to the Script Advice Blog! MULTI-TASKING IN CINEMA Everything in a well-constructed cinema script carries out two, three or even more tasks. There’s [...]
You probably saw this article in the Guardian a few days ago. A disgruntled, disillusioned writer tells of the torrid time he had with producers at BBC3 Comedy, following the commission of his Sitcom pilot [...]
Over the past 20 years I have been on the receiving end of many successful and some disastrous pitches from writers seeking to sell their ideas to the channel I was working for. So I [...]
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 [...]
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Running my website for writers SCRIPT ADVICE and THE SCRIPT ADVICE WRITERS ROOM on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/237330119115/ I often come across very valuable advice on the Net for writers. I also tweet a lot of important [...]
WHAT THE SCRIPT FACTORY SAYS ABOUT SCRIPT ADVICE:"We can heartily recommend Yvonne’s workshops – she unravels television like no one else! www.scriptfactory.co.ukFind out if I can help you with your current project@https://scriptadvice-co-uk.stackstaging.com offering writers mentoring, [...]
