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A Few Irish Films, Introduced by The Hoff!
Happy St Patrick's Day from the Hoff! My brother sent me this today, and I'm sure you would agree, it is too fine not to share. For more Hoff beauties, check out www.hoffgallery.com.On a slightly less...
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Short Films
As well as working on a synopsis for a 30-minute single drama for Coming Up, my other writing project at the moment is a short film, which I may or may not enter for the Kaos Films short script...
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Comments Function Sorted - Thanks Scott!
Thanks to Scott the Reader for alerting me to the fact that I was unwittingly preventing comments on this blog - seems I had the 'moderate comments' box ticked. Anyway, I've unticked it now so...
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Cool for Cats
I've often thought I'd like to write for a children's series or cartoon so I try to pay attention to what's on CBBCwhen I can - not easy as I'm not always home during the day, but I try. So I read this...
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Light Housekeeping
I've (hopefully) sorted out some of the links on the right that weren't working, and added a few new links as well. I thought it was about time I put a picture in my profile as well. I wouldn't dream...
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Tagged
Oblique Ismo has tagged me with the "Four Things Meme", so here we go:Four Jobs I've had:Assistant Stage ManagerShelf stackerYouth workerUniversity administratorFour Films I can Watch Over and Over...
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A Couple of Opportunities - London Based
From Arts Council England's "Arts News" mailing list:INTRODUCTION TO SCRIPTWRITING5 WEEK EVENING COURSE, STARTS THURSDAY 6THAPRIL, 6.30PM TO 8.30PM, BLOOMSBURY, LONDON WC1.This course is aimed at...
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Some Updates
A little while ago I posted about short films on the web, and some opportunities for short film script competitions. I've just discovered the Super Shorts Film Festival, which will be held for the...
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Scripts I'd Like to Rewrite
Tom of The One Year Push was also tagged by Ismo and opted not to tag four more bloggers, but instead to ask scriptwriting bloggers to list the 4 films they would like to rewrite. I like making lists...
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Suddenly all hell breaks loose with hilarious cons...
Last year I did a short course about writing arts reviews. I'm not sure review writing is really for me, but I found the course useful in other ways. As with scriptwriting, writing reviews is all about...
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My Body Hates Me
As I've mentioned before, my current working situation is three days of the week in a stuffy office doing a job I'm not especially enthusiastic about (though it does have some nice perks), and two days...
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Closure
After almost 5 months, I've finally got some feedback from BBC about my Evening Play Submission. As expected, the feedback was brief, though it was encouraging and they pointed out the "emotional...
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Kaos Films British Short Script Competition
The early deadline for this competition is just a few days away, on April 14th. If you get your script in then, you'll save £10 on the entry fee. I'll be aiming to have something ready in time for the...
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Spread the Word
As they have just announced their new season of literature workshops and events, it seemed a good idea to highlight a great writing resource for London, Spread the Word. There is a slight bias towards...
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Scriptwriting on a Budget: Getting Feedback
Scriptwriting is big business. There are numerous books on scriptwriting, "script gurus" offering workshops or one-to-one advice, scriptwriting retreats, scriptwriting software and of course, many...
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Gone
Sent my Coming Up submission off yesterday and have been dealing with the slight sense of a come-down that tends to follow any submission. The idea I had been working on has been with me in some shape...
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(Mini) Festival Fever
A couple of mini-film festivals coming up in London in the next week or so. From 26th-30th April, the Apollo West End hosts the Sci-Fi London Festival. In the line-up are several UK premiere...
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Need Funding for Your Dream Project?
I got this email today:Free Funding Available for Talented Artists. We are making a brand new prime time show for ITV, where the public are invited to come along and pitch for some money for absolutely...
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Podcasts
This Friday's Shooting People screenwriter's bulletin helpfully contained a list of screenwriting and film podcasts. I've had Creative Screenwriting Magazine's podcast page bookmarked in my favourties...
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Frustrations
It's been an up and down week. Been doing loads of work on the outline for submission to the Friendly Producer Scheme. It's not quite there yet, but feeling better about it than I was. One minute I...
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Q and A: BSSC Semi-Finalist Eleanor Tucker
I've been getting a lot of traffic to this site from people searching for info on the British Short Script Competition, which I mentioned in this post back in April. It's always good to get some...
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Movie Meme
A nice little meme I found over on Is That So Wrong?1. Popcorn or candy?Popcorn. But mostly I don't eat at the cinema, because other people munching loudly or rustling wrappers bothers me so I feel I...
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Cover Letters
Been catching up on script reading this week. One company I read for send me the cover letters, the CV's and anything else the writer has included in addition to the scripts. I'm always fascinated by...
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Writing for Other Media
We all know how difficult it is as a new writer to break into film and TV writing. Last October I attended aScript Factory panel discussion on writing for other media. I wrote a report about the event...
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Writing for Other Media: Theatre
Following on from my previous post on writing for other media, I thought I'd take a look at some opportunities in each of those 'other media', starting with theatre.Soho Theatre have just announced the...
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