The Development Hell Writing Course

Soup-to-nuts, this is pretty much everything I know (and some stuff I don't) about writing for screen and audio.

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Too Much Exposition...

...and why there's no such thing.

Sep 14 •

Breaking the Screenplay

The rules are there ain't no rules.

Sep 2 •

An essential tool

Aug 19 •

On writing software...

Boring, but necessary

Jul 29 •

Character Journeys

The order I’m writing these things in might seem a little random, but I’m trying to work in the order in which I think about story. Once I’ve got my…

May 21 •

Organising Ideas

One of the great pleasures of being a writer in any medium is the not-writing part; the bit where you get to play with your ideas, brainstorm them…

May 11 •

Story Ideas - The First Spark

It all starts with the spark of an idea. And everyone’s got one of those. During the week, I asked in the Substack chat for example notions that I could…

Apr 29 •

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