So this Tuesday gone - the 19th March - I wandered up to the Carmarthen campus to listen to Rati Saxena ( http://www.boloji.com/writers/ratisaxena.htm) . I wasn't sure how this would work as she is a Hindi poet. But I also found out that she is also a translator, scholar and runs kritya (www.kritya.in). She has… Continue reading A Guest Writer – Rati Saxena
Category: Masters tales
Anything about the Masters in Creative Writing and Scriptwriting
Screenwriting 4
Well, it turns out that screenwriting is far harder than I would have thought. It's not what you put in but rather what you leave out. I've written a scene where a woman is abused by her husband (nasty I know but he does die in scene four). Anyway, she is being beaten... Do I… Continue reading Screenwriting 4
I’m Passing!
I'm so relieved! I was starting to worry... But the provisional marks came though today and I am passing my masters. Phew! Big relief... Now I just got to finish!
Screenwriting 3
I've changed my idea, the other one just wasn't working. It was a decent enough story, a child's fantasy, but it just didn't have 'legs'. There was very little way of putting in a subplot and exploring the intricacies of screenwriting. So out went the child's film and in comes the adult drama. I'm actually… Continue reading Screenwriting 3
Saffron
This is my version of 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears' as worked from the breakdown I posted the other day. Saffron She runs, hardly able to see. The darkness around her is oppressive and bears down on her like a presence, always watching. She stumbles and falls to her knees, smelling the damp decay of… Continue reading Saffron
White Rabbits!
Okay so it's a little late... On the first of the month the first thing we say in our house is - "White Rabbits" Course this is probably a corruption of another tradition, but in our family it is our own tradition. I've been working on fairy tales and have mind-mapped Goldilocks and the Three… Continue reading White Rabbits!
Trick, not Treat
This is a short story written as part of my masters course. Enjoy! Trick, Not Treat When the electricity failed, Pat was plunged into darkness and was not aware of anything except for the suspicion of a noise out on the porch. He froze, hands suspended above the keyboard, not sure if he had heard… Continue reading Trick, not Treat
Fairytales and Folk Stories
Wednesday 20th February 2013 Now I have been addicted to fairy tales in the past. As a child my illustrated collection (two volumes) were my favourite books, but seriously I hadn't thought about them for a very long time. So when I realised that the lecture was about fairy tales I was interested. But I did see the… Continue reading Fairytales and Folk Stories
Screenwriting 2
Wednesday 13th February 2013 It's time to actually put pen to paper and the first thing I get to decide is how to write something that happens in the story via narrator speak. I don't want a voice over so I have to tell the story by writing a small plot... It's difficult - more… Continue reading Screenwriting 2
Screenwriting 1
Wednesday 6th February 2013 My first lesson back from Christmas and it's what I've been looking forward to since beginning the Masters. Screenwriting! Films... To say I'm a film-buff would be an understatement. I love movies and I watch them all, from the really bad ones where the camera shakes to the massive billion pound… Continue reading Screenwriting 1
Kate Murray - Cleaver 