Over the coming months, I’m hoping to write a series of posts for aspiring kids’ content makers tackling some of…
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ADVICE TO NEW AND EMERGING SCREENWRITERS (AND SCRIPT EDITORS)
So, I write for television and I get paid for it. It literally pays my bills and keeps me fed.…
Monthly Wrap-Up – February 2018
It’s been an up-and-down month, I’m not feeling great and I have no idea what I have written below –…
Monthly Wrap-Up – January 2018
Inspired by Austin Kleon’s Ten Things, and in awe of Pip Lincolne’s Taking Stock blog posts, I’m going to give…
View From The Top (of the Book Pile) – January 2018
I feel determined to make more of an effort to read, watch and enjoy stories by women, about women, this…
The Power of Predictive Poetry
It all started (for me at least) when I saw this tweet from J.K. Rowling: The tweet was in response…
A Fun, Feminist Magazine for Girls? Yes Please!
A couple of months ago, a friend got in touch to let me know about her latest project. And my…
Embracing My Inner Loser
I’ve been having a couple of those kinds of weeks. I’ve taken on work I really didn’t want to take…
The One Difference Between Good and Bad Producers
Being a good producer takes a lot of guts. Generally speaking, I think film and TV producers get a bad…
What’s The Point (Of Scene)? How The One Liner Changed How I See Stories
If writing is re-writing, scriptwriting is script editing. And one of the most basic tools of script editing is the…
A Festive Salute to Freelancers
The first big production company I worked for cultivated its own mythology, which included tales of the heady, freewheeling 80s when…
How Would You Describe Yourself? An Incidental Discovery
Towards the end of last year, I was in a bit of a state. I was still coming to terms…
