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Posted onMarch 4, 2017January 31, 2021Writing

The screenplay format – when pointless obsession takes hold

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I can’t bear widows. They are the bane of my life. Not the black-clad in-mourning type, but the single-word-on-a-line type. They have the power to…

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Posted onMarch 1, 2017January 30, 2021Writing

The terror of the first 10 pages

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I’ve just started rewriting a thriller – and I’m feeling the pressure of the first 10 pages more than ever. Perhaps it’s because this script…

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Posted onJanuary 23, 2017February 16, 2021Writing

Helen Duncan – the greatest true story never brought to screen?

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How many writers can be working on the same story at the same time? About 7,643 it turns out. Imagine a story that brings together…

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Posted onDecember 29, 2016November 24, 2020Film and TV

Widows: can Steve McQueen transfer one of the UK’s best-ever crime dramas successfully to film?

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I can’t help myself. I’ve started watching it again. I’m currently on my twenty-somethingth viewing of Lynda La Plante’s Widows – a six-part TV drama I’ve been…

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Read more about me, if you can stand it. Hello. I write screenplays, plays and fiction. Find out more about me, my work and how I perfected this casual pose.
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