Blog posts by year and monthDecember 2008
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The Perfect 10: 4. Character is Everything
And here's instalment four: Character is Everything I could have started with this. It's the beginning, middle and end of what makes or breaks a great script - and a great writer. You can have everything else, but if you don't create strong, vivid, compelling characters then you ultimately...
Christmas creative wishes
For those of you who will be scribbling away at your ABBA entries over the Christmas period, I thought I'd address a couple of questions which keep cropping up in the comments from the blogs and in the radio drama masterclasses. The big question I keep being asked is does your script have to ...
The Perfect 10: 3. Coherence
Apologies for the late arrival of instalment three, it's been an extremely busy couple of weeks... This time, it's about Coherence: A major problem with a great many scripts is that the piece as a whole simply doesn't hang together. There might be brilliant characters, dialogue, scenes, id...
The surgery is open
In the past couple of weeks, I've met a lot of new or relatively new writers, first when I went to talk to the MA students on the television writing course at De Montfort University, and then at a rather overwhelming Writers' Room drinks. Many of the same questions cropped up, so in the spirit of giving, I thought the pre-Christmas blog could be devoted to comedy writers' FAQs. Bring them on and I'll try to do answers.
Newcastle masterclass
I'm now back in the office after spending Wednesday evening at Live Theatre running my first masterclass with Katherine Beacon. Thanks to everyone who attended, especially those who braved the snow to get there and a big thanks to Gez at Live for letting us host the event. Katherine and I stayed...
Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe
Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe is all about telly. It's both very funny and very educational. The last episode was all about writing, and you can watch it on iplayer for the next five days. Unlike most episodes, it's very much a straight Q&A with writers Tony Jordan, Russell T Davies, Sam Bain ...
Alfred Bradley Bursary Award Launches
Hello! I'm Charlotte Riches the Development Producer for BBC Radio Drama North. For the next three months or so I'm going to be writing a blog to coincide with the running of the Alfred Bradley Bursary Award (or ABBA as we like to call it), which was launched yesterday. I've been planning ABBA...
The Alfred Bradley Bursary Award
Jeremy Howe, Commissioning Editor for Drama on Radio 4 is one of the judges for the Alfred Bradley Bursary Award, which launched today. So if you're thinking of putting in an entry - or even if you want to try writing something for the Afternoon Play slot outside of the competition - you shou...
