How To Make Friends and Influence Producers
Focus on Film: Advice and strategies for meeting producers who are making the kind of thing you’re writing. If you love film, you should love watching films, so going to festivals, the cinema, seeing what’s being made and by whom should be the most enjoyable part of your job. That said, there is a point […]
Meet The Gang: Part 2
How to Begin an Ensemble Drama by Script Angel’s Lucy Hackney Part Two In my first article on this subject we saw how effective it can be to focus on a single newcomer to the world you have created for your ensemble drama. This time I’ll be demonstrating how there’s another often used technique of […]
Meet The Gang: Part 1
How to Begin an Ensemble Drama by Script Angel’s Lucy Hackney Part One Do you have a great idea for an original ensemble drama? If you can bring that idea to life in a pilot script, you’ll find producers and agents pay attention because this genre can be some of the most addictive and long […]
The Rejection Collection
How coping strategies for rejection can be key to resilience and productivity, by Script Angel’s Jay Harley. As you’re making your way as a writer, rejection will become an inevitable part of life. Any rejections, including the writerly kind, can be tough, and as you’re starting out they can be demoralising and de-motivating. However we’ve […]
Screenwriting Events Calendar
Screenwriting events are a great opportunity to improve your craft, meet peers and network with other industry professionals. Below we’ve listed major screenwriting events across the world. The events are in date-order and we’ve colour-coded by area so that you can see at a glance which events are in your part of the world. UK […]
Truth and Vulnerability in Your Writing
Screenwriting is, at its heart, storytelling. And storytelling is about creating an emotional connection with an audience. But how do you connect with your audience unless you, as the writer, are willing to let us in? For your work to connect, what it needs is for you to do that most difficult of things, to […]
When Opportunity Knocks… and You Don’t Answer
Guest post by Script Angel’s Jay Harley In 2015 I started a writers’ group in Cardiff and online, which burgeoned into a fantastic community of successful writers. One of the early events in Cardiff was a talk by BBC Wales Drama Development script editor (now producer) Jenna Robbins about screenwriting opportunities. Jenna generously explained the […]
Book Review: The Idea by Erik Bork
How do you know if your story idea is strong enough to be worth pursuing, and if it’s not, how do you fix it? In his book ‘The Idea’ Erik Bork explores the seven elements he believes are essential for any story idea to be viable for screen, stage or fiction. Most books on screenwriting […]
What Makes A Screenplay Stand Out In A Script Competition
Guest Post by Gordy Hoffman, Founder and Judge, Blue Cat Screenplay Competition. People often ask me what makes a script stand out when its submitted to the BlueCat Screenplay Competition. BlueCat is one of the oldest script competitions in the world and I’ve been hand picking the winners since we began. I’ve personally reviewed thousands […]