Tips
Avoid getting stuck: use multiple notebooks
Writing can be hard, particularly if you’re stuck at a certain point. It’s easy to feel tied to the last thing…
Alexis Zegerman is an award-winning actress and writer working across theatre, TV, film and radio. She was writer-in-residence at Hampstead Theatre where her play Lucky Seven premiered. She is currently writing a comedy feature for BBC Films.
Tips
Writing can be hard, particularly if you’re stuck at a certain point. It’s easy to feel tied to the last thing…
Exercises
As a writer, you need to know your characters better than they know themselves. The way to believable, complex, story-laden characters…
When writing a screenplay, I don’t naturally think in structure. I don’t automatically think of the specific plot point coming on…
Exercises
This is a great character exercise and works even in the most extraordinary of circumstances. For example, if one of your…
Tips
Whether it’s a script set in Medieval times or a story from your own life, research is important. But it’s also…
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