Category: Writing
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Rewriting, using comic book techniques, and other energy-boosters….
Tips and resources to get the energy going when it’s time to rewrite…
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Give me 4 minutes and I’ll read you a story for 6
Give me 4 minutes of your time by completing a survey for me, and I will reward you with 6 minutes of free, super-sizzling storytelling. That’s gotta be a win, right?
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Safe in Uncertainty
I’ve been floored by a lurgy – the culmination of a couple of weeks sliding grimly under the weather. The b*gger of it is that it’s a big work week with family obligations. But as you all know, if you keep applying the technique that got you here, nothing’s going to change. So. Surrender it…
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Breakin’ the law, breakin’ the law
Tell me something that drives you mad when people do it. Not a crime. Not cruelty. Just one of those small social laws we all obey without thinking. Talking during a play? Not having your ticket ready at the station exit? Sliding into the parking space someone else has clearly been waiting for? Now ask…
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All of 2025 in one post
If it’s how you pay your bills, being a scriptwriter has been a bit depressing the last few years. The screenwriting world is in crisis. Theatre is in freefall. If you back this profession up – like I do – with writing-related corporate work (I do more than write, but words are still significant), too…
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Theatre: everything to play for, moment by moment
Why’s a script more like an advent calendar or a Haynes manual than a novel?
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It’s all in the telling (and that can be hard)
The story-telling process (and not the end result) is where to put your focus …I may have been quiet, but, cor, have I been writing! I’m at the 65k word mark on a comedy novel, and loving the hard graft you get when crafting a story. This is my second prose adventure (the first is…
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Don’t wait for Santa
All through my life, this is the book I most wanted to steal from the library. And for the second year running, I’m one of its authors (so I got it for free!)…
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The Box is back!
There’s two things bubbling on the go. The first is ‘FFS’, a script which emerged from the murk like an old-fashioned photo in a dark-room’s developing tray. And the other is “the novel” which has even deeper roots in my life – like those disturbing children’s molar-roots that make me think of rabbit ears (just…
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Developing a photo very, very slowly…
Yes, this is one for you writer technique nerds out there. And if it interests or helps you, I would love your thoughts.
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Getting Creative When You Doubt You Can
Inspired by an acquaintance who’d been made so miserable by her utter conviction she didn’t have a creative bone in her, I wanted to encourage some self-care in others, and to share what I wrote. You can hear me read it on Kristin’s podcast here…
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Climate Catastrophe Satire Hits London Stage
News Release 1 Nov 2021 A climate catastrophe satire that was developed with audiences in Bath hits the London stage this month (November). The New Wimbledon Theatre, run by Ambassadors Theatre Group, opens Gill Kirk’s dark-green dystopian horror-comedy SKIN IN THE GAME on the very day that COP26 ends in Glasgow. Chosen by New Wimbledon Theatre…
Gill Kirk, writer 