Writing Life: insights, updates, and craft
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Does this make me a Marxist?
Busy, good times. Last week saw the London VAULT Festival outing of Passion, thanks to Allie Butler and Helen Cuinn at tidycarnage. I’ve also been working up the notorious ten-page treatment (and other stuff) required for ifeatures and proposals for Screen Yorkshire’s Triangle. And we’re moving towards the development day for the all-consuming quantum mechanics…
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Chance to see…
Upcoming show dates: 4-8 March, 6:30 pm, London – PASSION: http://www.thevaultfestival.com/passion/ – tidy carnage do their magic with Passion, a one-woman rave for a soldier with PTSD, as part of the excellent VAULTS Festival 2014. Edan’s back from Afghanistan and raving; hunting an escape. Just what kind of escape will become all too clear… July…
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And as if by magic, the story structure appeared
There are a million books on story structure, especially in the screenwriting world. You can leap from Joseph Campbell, through Christophers Vogler & Booker, to Robert Key, Syd Field, Viki King, Blake Snyder and most recently, the excellent Into The Woods by John Yorke (if you want a reading list, I refer you to the…
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Meme of the Week
Originally posted on Studio Mothers: Life & Art: Happy Friday. :::::
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12 hours
I’ve just had an astonishing 12 hours. Overnight, the talentbacker campaign for script development for the quantum script (see previous post) hit and then exceeded its target with 6 days still to go. It’s not like running a race, cheered on by friends. It’s like asking them to run for you, while you keep yelling…
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To fund or not to fund? A Q&A on QM with actor Annette Chown
To fund or not to fund? A Q&A on QM with actor Annette Chown The thoughtful and thought-provoking Bristol actor Annette Chown has a bit of a thing about quantum mechanics. Which is lucky for me. Annette has very generously given over a blog posting to a Q&A with me about my quantum mechanics script…
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Raising cash with Upsy-Daisy & the Quantum Suicide Rifle
I made a film! I’m relentlessly asking people for MONEY! And it’s all about that terrier of a play on quantum mechanics (what? you missed me talking about it? Let me help you out: The heartbeat of an onion, Developing this oniony play – in pictures, and Gnash, gobble, splat: the sounds of a new script hitting the genre wall)…
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DIY is never DIY! Funding the ink to jump onto the stage…
I’m fundraising. Applications, grants, trusts and now some crowd funding (watch this space..) through the lovely people at www.talentbacker.com. Of course, it’s never DIY when it comes to money. Or any part of getting art out there. In this case, talentbacker are going to help me get lots of people to donate dosh. That will…
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How do we get people writing (produced work) for theatre when they can’t build a relationship?
You need to be familiar with a range of our work. Spend time at the bar, introduce yourself. If you’ve not seen new writing here in the last few months, I don’t want to hear from you. These are all real words spoken by theatre building peeps, to writers. I can’t argue – and am…
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M-O-N-E-Y and the “emerging writer”
I’m a member of a professional writers’ group for the Bath / Bristol area. Great people, all quite different in style and temperament. Very supportive. I don’t get there often enough (childcare, blah de blah) but without fail, it’s inspiring. So here’s last night. After a session on another writer’s work, we rolled up our…
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Good, better, best
V chuffed to report that “Hard Men’, my pilot show script, developed through last year’s Channel 4’s 4Screenwriting programme, has got through the quarter-finals of the Screenwriting Goldmine Awards 2013. It made for a lovely afternoon, with writers galore getting in touch to check that I knew! Just goes to show what a community we…
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Clackety-Clack
It’s been three months since I was here last! Thankfully, I know you don’t expect (or want) an apology… June and July saw a mass of playwriting deadlines for writery types. Of the theatres that still accept unsolicited scripts, many have moved to “open submission windows”, instead of accepting scripts all year round. Some are…
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