WE ENABLE CREATORS
David Mamet’s memo to the writing staff of ‘The Unit’ has been doing the rounds on the interwebs for a while now but it’s so good we thought we would share it here: “To the writers of the unit Greetings. As we learn how to write this show, a recurring […]
Leading distributor DRG today announces that it has secured a major new partnership with Wildseed Studios, the innovative, BAFTA-winning content and talent incubation company founded by Miles Bullough and Jesse Cleverly in 2013. Wildseed Studios was established to find new content creators and pilot original ideas specifically designed to work across […]
Careless Talk Costs Lives So – here we are – at the very smallest unit of story – the dialogue itself. The first thing I would say to you is delay the moment you write dialogue for as long as you possibly can. This will feel weird because writing dialogue […]
Scenes OK – so ever smaller we go! The next unit of story after the sequence is the scene. Scenes are what we remember from films – and the late-great John Houston once described the difference between a good and great film as “three great scenes, no bad scenes”. The question […]
Stages of Development – Sequences So – after you have the moved the big pieces of your story around and got your act turning points really humming, you will want to now think about the Sequences of your story. A sequence is usually unified by location, time or a character […]
Getting your acts together… Welcome back to my (very brief!) guide to development… I hope you got into your characters last week… OK – so this week – the acts! The acts are the big turning points in the story – and there would be more of them if they […]
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