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What I Wrote This Year – 2025
What I Wrote This Year – 2024
Yeah, it's been a while...
DIFFERENT THINGS – MARCH 2021
Miranda's Gary is still the devil, writing eulogies is the worst, and finding people to join your crazy writing group is the best... Here's some different things I've been thinking a lot about this past month. Maybe there's something here to interest you too?
DIFFERENT THINGS – JANUARY & FEBRUARY 2021
Drowning in telly, emailing your future, and the way I'm tackling my writing goals this year... Here's some different things I've been thinking a lot about this past month. Maybe there's something here to interest you too?
WHAT I WROTE THIS YEAR – 2020
This post title does not lie - a wrap up of what I wrote in the plague-infested year of 2020...
DIFFERENT THINGS – NOVEMBER 2020
Making pointless characters matter and making pointless competition meaningful. Here's some different things I've been thinking a lot about this past month. Maybe there's something here to interest you too?
WHAT I WROTE THIS YEAR – 2019
It's felt like a very long year! While it started off a little slow, it ran up into a big and tiring finish. There's been lots of great stuff going on professionally, loads of development work and a couple of wins too, with some Story Development funding from Screen Australia (the application for which is …
How To Write Movies: Mazin and Arndt’s Screenwriting Philosophies
I've spent a lot of time recently recommending a couple of fantastic resources to anyone and everyone I know in the middle of slogging it out on a screen story. The below two story lectures are fantastic for lots of reasons, but key to their impact is that they're incredibly useful, craft-focused overviews for anyone …
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What I Wrote This Year – 2018
A look back on my main writing achievements for 2018.
How Do You ‘Find Your Voice’ As A Writer?
On the destructive myth of a writer’s ‘voice’, and what ‘finding your voice’ actually means.
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. I don’t earn an outrageous living, far from it, but I earn enough to maintain independence and sanity. I don’t have to dig wells, sell shoes or wait tables* to keep myself afloat. AND I …
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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 One Liner, which focuses you on POS (point of scene). As a bright-eyed, bushy-tailed trainee script editor, my boss assigned me some practise. After I’d mangled my way through a set of off-balance notes, …
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