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?

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 …

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, …

3 Reasons Why I Recommend The NYC Midnight Writing Challenges

About a year ago, I came across a group called NYC Midnight that run a slate of online writing competitions. I’m usually pretty suspicious of these sorts of things, and to be honest I’m not someone who regularly enters competitions. But after poking about their website, I thought, why not? I’ll try it once, and …

Ann Hood’s Top Ten Tips On How To Write A Kick-Ass Essay

I came across this fantastic podcast the other day via Tin House and featuring writer Ann Hood who shares her ten rules on how to write a 'kick-ass' essay. It is excellent and I urge you to listen to it immediately! The podcast is a recording of Hood's lecture given during Tin House's 2014 Summer Writer's Workshop. Hood is …