Tag: craft

  • Screenwriter Training

    An interesting post the other day at Tim Clague’s gaff on training courses got me thinking. In any job you get, there’s a training budget. If we’re professionals, then we should have a training budget too. For things like screenwriting courses, conferences, residential workshops and so on. (Or, if you swing that way, on script […]

  • On-swa! On-swa!

    I’ve just finished playing Ico. It’s a game for the PS2 in which you have to escape from a castle – and take your companion with you. The game is beautifully drawn, and instead of music features a soundtrack of ambient sound: the wash of waves on cliffs, gulls crying on the wing. The light […]

  • Rogers Moore

    John Rogers is a rather fine screenwriter. His works include the vastly under-rated The Core, and a pilot for a Global Frequency TV show (which, sadly, wasn’t picked up). He also wrote one of the drafts of Catwoman, and was unfortunate enough to have his name on the finished product. But he’s really sorry about […]

  • Bibliomancy

    Some more TV bibles for your reading pleasure. Three from Lee Goldberg and William Rabkin:She Wolf of LondonMartial LawDiagnosis Murder And one from Harlan Ellison and Ben Bova:The Starlost Earlier bible roundups here and here.

  • David Shore

    A couple of weeks ago I went to an event at BAFTA hosted by mediaXchange. MediaXchange are a company who try and bring creatives together across the Atlantic – so for example TV execs in the UK might be taken across to LA in order to shadow a showrunner for week. In this case, though, […]

  • Clams and Toppers.

    If you don’t have Jane Espenson‘s blog on your must-read list, you really ought to. She writes regularly on the process of creating spec scripts. Also, about what she had for lunch, but as that’s a story on a par with Tom Baker’s Scarf, we’ll let it slide. Having started out as a comedy writer, […]

  • The Table Read

    It’s a really simple concept, and you’d think it would be more widely done. You’ve written your spec. It’s as good as you can make it. You’ve been through a dozen drafts, stripped back the action paragraphs and deflowered the prose. The characters have objectives that they’re working towards, and problems that they need to […]