Ishy Din

Ishy Din is an award-winning playwright. His plays include Snookered and Wipers, and he has also written for TV and Film. He has recently written an episode for the new Channel 4 drama Ackley Road and is listed on the BBC New Talent Hotlist 2017.

Writing Tips and Exercises

Writing Tips

Don’t get distracted

Genre: All

Somebody once said about writing, “If it’s easy you’re not doing it right”. And because it is so difficult it’s easy to get distracted, here are a couple of little tips to concentrate the mind. If like me your procrastination and displacement activit...

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Writing Exercises

The Object Exercise

Genre: All

Think of an object or thing that you can’t live without and write it down, not a mobile phone or any electronic device! Then list 12 words that you associate with that object or thing, they can be abstract or descriptive. Now I’d like you to write a rant....

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Writing Exercises

Bringing Dramatic Action Into A Scene

Genre: Theatre

The purpose of this exercise is to help us bring dramatic action to our scenes. Firstly we should examine what we mean by Dramatic Action? Dramatic Action is the tactics a character is using to achieve his or her goals. There will be the overarching goal of wh...

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Writing Tips

Finish Before The End

Genre: Theatre

I always find that finishing my working day before I’ve ran out of ideas is a great help. Imagine you’re writing your scene/s, you’ve planned and thought what is going to happen, how the scene will start, who will be in it, how it will end, perhaps you�...

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