It turns out it’s hard to write comedy when your dad’s just died. My lovely dad was taken into hospital suddenly at the end of…
For a long time I was completely allergic to road-testing my concepts. Naturally, when you tell people you’re writing something, they want to know what you’re writing.…
So I found myself watching it again. So many years after I begged my mum to let me stay up late so I could watch…
I’ve just finished a script I’ve been working on for ages. I think it’s the best thing I’ve written so far. So why am I…
Like lots of people in lockdown, I spend most of my time apologising to friends and family that I have nothing to say for myself.…
I’ve tried it both ways. I’ve followed the advice of screenwriting books and have diligently plotted a film or TV series with my 5″x7″ cards…
In the spirit of ‘New Year, New Me!’ (despite wearing the same three Matalan sweatshirts on rotation since March last year), I recently took Bang2Write‘s…
Like a lot of people I’m a fair-weather Doctor Who viewer, dipping in and out and mainly paying attention to the bigger stories. I have…
I can’t count the number of times I’ve seen Legally Blonde. Staggeringly, it’s 20 years old this year (about time for its first spa visit).…
I recently read John R Gordon’s new novel Hark set in a racially divided Southern US town – a world I’ve never experienced. But something…