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Writers 10 Rules And Why I Hate Them So

Mar 3, 2010 6:23pm

There's a big old pompous article in the Guardian Books Section entitled 10 RULES FOR WRITING inspired by Elmore Leonard's Ten Rules (yeah, Elmore Leonard, that great literary giant) that's tipped me into a twisted rage this week. The Guard......

Annotated In The Loop

Mar 2, 2010 2:52am

Three pages of the screenplay for In The Loop are up on the Fade In website - and they've been annotated by Armando Iannucci. We also have an interview with Armando from last year on the BBC writersroom website, where......

Oscar-nominated scripts

Feb 25, 2010 4:44am

This year's Oscar-nominated scripts are all available online. Find 'em here.......

Climbing To Making It Nirvana While Freebasing IMDB

Feb 24, 2010 3:09pm

I always find the suicide of a successful artist shocking. Such as Alexander McQueen this past month. Take a profile shot of his life and all seems gleaming: World renowned in his chosen field, rich behold comprehension, famous friends and......

Out, on a grief stricken [character name]

Feb 23, 2010 5:01am

Check out the alternative endings to last week's live episode of EastEnders, and reveal the other possible murderers of Archie Mitchell!......

An Hour a Day Keeps the Existential Angst Away

Feb 18, 2010 9:54am

In the book The 101 Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters there is a section on the hours these highly successful scribblers devote to their craft. Each and every one of them tells the editor of their gruelling work schedule. Getting up before dawn and pounding on the laptop, at furious...

Hart Hanson Interview

Feb 15, 2010 2:52am

Hart Hanson - creator and showrunner of Bones - gave a talk at Grant MacEwan University in Edmonton, Canada recently. Fortunately, one of the audience members recorded and transcribed his speech, which you can now find online here. As a......

Newsjack: Comedy Jazz

Feb 8, 2010 8:10am

Ok, in memory of Johnny Dankworth, here's how a sketch is like a jazz tune. Say you're listening to Coltrane play 'My Favourite Things'. He'll start out with the basic tune, and then he'll take it and muck about. He'll......

Welsh New Writers deadline

Feb 8, 2010 3:59am

Given the short turnaround for our call for Welsh writers, we have decided to extend the deadline by one week to allow writers more time to get their script and idea in to us. So the deadline is now: 5pm......

Newsjack: Special Guests

Feb 5, 2010 6:28am

Hello. Apologies for missing a week - I was off in Bristol doing some acting and then I lost the email with my login details. Also, I'm only half way through series one of Mad Men so something had to......

The Wire (UK not USA, and radio not TV)

Feb 4, 2010 8:07am

The new season of The Wire strand of original new dramas on Radio 3 starts this weekend with Alan Harris's play The Goldfarmer. The strand is in it's 10th season, has always been commissioned out of Writersroom by Kate Rowland......

Shifty script

Feb 4, 2010 7:08am

Eran Creevy's script for his low-budget film Shifty is now available to read. The film was developed through the Film London Microwave scheme in partnership with BBC Films. As part of the BBC's support of the project, I spent some......

Doctor Who Scripts

Feb 1, 2010 2:33am

So, the year before last Russell T Davies puts this book out, right? All about writing Doctor Who. And to go along with it he published all of the scripts he wrote for Doctor Who that year. Well, now that......

Dotcommery, Tomfoolery, and Swywthery

Jan 29, 2010 7:34am

Tim Wright is the writer of digital experiences including Online Caroline, Mount Kristos, and In Search of Oldton. His two new plays, Say What You Want To Hear, will air shortly on Radio 4 - and you can be a......

Tony Doyle Bursary Award

Jan 29, 2010 5:48am

The shortlist that goes to the judges has been decided and congratulations to the scripts and writers below: Murder in the Lakelands by Patrick Nash Only One Problem by David Ireland The Dealer of Ballynafeigh by Rosemary Jenksinson A Pocket......