Do Your Best! First up, always do your best! Sounds simple, right? You can use any submission opportunity as an excuse to get the project to the very best stage that you can at that time. So if your submission is unsuccessful, who cares? You’ve got a shiny new project Read more…
Don’t include the script or novel in the first email: copyright Agents and producers often won’t open an email that contains an unsolicited creative work in a query letter. This is because it opens them up to copyright lawsuits if they are working on another project that’s similar, or one Read more…
Make the antagonist embody the negative values that the protagonist rejects If your protagonist is on a journey towards love, life, and happiness then your villain may represent death, decay, and unhappiness. Often a protagonist will learn who they are throughout the course of a story, and eventually actively chose Read more…
There are certain structures and principles that are present in many commercially successful and popular stories. Every story is of course different, and every story teller has a unique way of approaching storytelling, but considering the suggestions below may help you to understand how your favorite stories are structured, and Read more…
Even though every creative writer’s journey to publication is different, there are things you can do to increase your chances of publication. The most important step is to produce the best work you can, and the second is to learn how to promote your work, or sell it. If you Read more…
So which are really the best Booker Award winning novels? In 2008 a special Best of the Bookers award was announced to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Booker Award. The books below were the ones chosen by a panel of judges as being the best of the best, with Read more…
Here are five creative writing tips from legendary creative writers. 1. As a writer you should not judge, you should understand – Ernest Hemingway On Writing “Then get in somebody else’s head for a change. If I bawl you out try to figure what I’m thinking about as well Read more…
Here is a list of some of the best and most influential novels of all time. Gathered below are books which are widely considered to have had an enormous impact on the novels that were written in their wake. Don Quixote by Cervantes Written in 1605, this astonishing novel Read more…
OK, so you love to read. You’ve got a sneaking suspicion that you might have a novel inside, and you want to find the best keys to unlock that work. You don’t want to reinvent the wheel, however. You’re smart, and you want to hear what the best writers in Read more…
So you want to improve your screenwriting skill set as quickly as possible, right? You’ve watched Youtube clips of all your favourite writers talking about their process, but oddly, when you sit down in the front of the blank page the words still aren’t flowing. You’re ready to enter phase Read more…