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Lovers in Paris
Can your love live up to the most romantic city in the world? It’s Disneyland... read more
Touchstone (2. Family at War) – a time travel Blitz story
The unforgettable fire… Continuing the adventures of Rachel and Danny, a... read more
Meet me in Montmartre
New Year’s Eve. An English girl. A French boy. A blind date. A kiss... read more
The Striker’s Fear of the Open Goal
Get a life. Get the girl. Get to Wembley. Ewan Glumie was born on the day Man... read more
The Budapest Breakfast Club
This summer: Go to Budapest… Make a movie… Have an affair. Ten... read more
The Very Thought of You
What happens when you fall in love with a woman who died before you were born?... read more
Train Can’t Bring Me Home
Love. Literature… and Tom Waits. Lots of Tom Waits. 1993. The former... read more
The Girl with the Bomb Inside
School is shit, your hero killed himself and your girlfriend’s pregnant.... read more
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Monthly Archives: October 2006
Dramatica: the DNA of story?
NEWSFLASH. Since writing this article I’ve since had the pleasure of interviewing Dramatica co-creator, Chris Huntley for the Shooting Screenwriters podcast, in which we discussed all things Dramatica for an enterataining and highly illuminating 40 minutes. See here. Imagine you turn on the news and hear that a couple of scientists have discovered the DNA of story: that each story, whether it be a novel, a screenplay, a sitcom script or a Simpsons episode, can be reduced to a precise …
How I learned to stop worrying and get a writing partner
There are two kinds of writer: those who treat their work in progress with the obsessive secrecy of a Freemason member of the Magic Circle who sidelines as a government spy, and those who can quite easily badger startled strangers in a coffee shop for opinions on the line they’ve just scribbled on a napkin. Being secretive about your writing makes sense. The wrong comment or opinion on your work-in-progress can drain you of any inspiration you had and relegate …
