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
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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
Assignments and Dissertation Ideas
Does time really pass this quickly? The answer is of course yes, especially when you are having a bit of fun. But I still can't believe that I'm thinking about dissertation ideas... My course doesn't officially begin lectures again until the 7th of February, which is great as my assignments need to be in on… Continue reading Assignments and Dissertation Ideas
Research and how much of a story ought to be true?
I was researching an essay on Dinosaur Footprints and I decided to include North Brother Island, which is an abandoned quarantine island between the Bronx and Queens. There is an abandoned leper colony in America, right next to NYC… If you look at it online then you can see the devastation, the trees growing through… Continue reading Research and how much of a story ought to be true?
How to write and live… And Happy New Year!
On the 29th December a blogger I follow called Cristian Mihai wrote a blog called You either write or live. In it Cristian quotes: “The more you write, the less you feel alive,” says Jonathan Fisher. Cristian then goes on to agree... Except I don't. If you write or you live then there would be a… Continue reading How to write and live… And Happy New Year!
A conundrum
"The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of consequence." Cyril Connolly This was posted in the Thresholds Facebook page... and it got me thinking. Is the only true function of a writer to create a… Continue reading A conundrum
Boxing day and big brown bears
It is strange when you realise just how young you were when you started to expand your vocabulary. Twas Boxing day yesterday and my sister and her tiny son (less than a year old) were round for Christmas leftovers. Well after eating she was playing with Bill and suddenly he takes off for the kitchen,… Continue reading Boxing day and big brown bears
It’s Christmas!
Well almost. Tomorrow is Christmas Eve and I am sitting in front of the Christmas tree and trying to ignore the Christmas special on the telly. Enough 'Christmas's'? I think so. Don't get me wrong I'm not a bar-humbug type of person but I do hate the commercialism of it all. My gifts this year… Continue reading It’s Christmas!
How do you write a two-way radio dialogue?
So I am working on a story and I need my character - a mountain rescuer - to talk to his boss on the two-way in his back pocket. I've already got dialogue in the story so the use of "-" doesn't make it different enough. So do I bold it or CAPITALISE it or… Continue reading How do you write a two-way radio dialogue?
Essays
5th December 2012 "Essays?" I asked, "really? Like factual... well... essays?" Shockingly the answer was - yes. Now I'm confused. I have an archaeology degree and essays where the pattern of life... How can you use the present to analyse the past? And so on. But I never anticipated anything would be like it in… Continue reading Essays
Kate Murray - Cleaver 