SCREENWRITING: Great podcast

Another great podcast I've been listening to lately is the Creative Screenwriting Magazine podcast. It's updated roughly once a week and takes the form of a Q&A between Senior editor Jeff Goldsmith and the guest after a screening of their feature. All the top Hollywood writers get a grilling and it's truly insightful to hear some of their stories. If you are interested in screenwriting, check it out here...

WRITING: Screenwriter 6 available

Any other budding screenwriters may be a little excited to know the long awaited latest version of Movie Magic Screenwriter (version 6) is now available. If your upgrading from an earlier version it costs just $99 - Bargain!

If you have even the slightest inclination towards writing televisual scripts either Screenwriter or Final Draft should be top of your Christmas list.

Head over to the Screenplay site here, or Final Draft's site here.

WRITING: Screenwriting article for Digital Video

I have contributed an article in issue 231 of Digital Video UK magazine about screenwriting. Concentrating not on the formatting and initial ideas but on the difficulties and pitfalls of re-drafting. Alongside the main body of the article, I managed to speak to agent Diane Culverhouse and screenwriter John Fay, whose past credits include Coronation Street, Mobile, Brookside, Blue Murder and Robin Hood.

Very interesting to get their take on the business, interested parties should check it out on newsstands or subscribe over at the Future Publishing website.