Morning Pages 2024-10-08 - Interview link I recently did an interview with design expert Andy Polaine for his Power of Ten podcast. It's essentially an hour of me banging on about film and TV development and the state of the industry. If that sounds like it might be up your street, it's
Newsletter Workflow: From Inception to Outline How I generate, research and outline ideas, a frankly exhaustive guide.
Audio A podcast script A few people have asked recently what podcast scripts look like. Well, I don't know. But I know what mine look like so, for those who are interested, here's a PDF of the first episode of The Shadow Over Innsmouth. I write these scripts in normal
Creativity A really useful Ulysses course A really great course that finally persuaded me to make Ulysses part of my toolkit.
Creativity Back to basics, again... I've realised that digital tools have started to destroy my creativity during lockdown.
Writing Concepts and Milanote A couple of new (to me) apps that have freshened up my working methods.
Work Featured How To Juggle Projects Breaking down a system for managing multiple projects without going insane.
Inspiration Night Of The Living Podcast interview I did an interview last night with Freddy and Kelley from the Night Of The Living Podcast. It was easily the most fun interview I've done but I haven't listened back to it, so there's a decent chance I talk a lot of nonsense.
Creativity Truth and fiction in "The Whisperer In Darkness" A few things it seemed useful to mention that might be of interest to listeners...
Writing Interview with Kurt Sutter This is a really interesting piece, from Deadline, with some insights into the studio process and showrunner politics.
Creativity Seven Days Walking - Box Set This has been the soundtrack to all my writing this year. Now Ludovico Einaudi's SEVEN DAYS WALKING project is complete (it was originally released over seven months). The download is around now, but the CD box set is available from November 1st. This is perfect Autumn music, perfect
Getting Started Featured Some thoughts on first drafts... I'm writing a couple of movies right now that are both one-step deals, which means that I'm being paid to deliver one draft with no re-writes. Writing in my journal this morning, I stumbled across the following thought:
Writing NOS4A2 Interview with Joe Hill I really loved this book and I've excited for the TV show. Joe Hill has some interesting stuff to say here about the nature of horror and of adaptations. http://collider.com/nos4a2-joe-hill-interview/#charlie-manx
Writing Featured An Updated Work-Flow This is an addendum to a previous post from 2018 “A Working Guide To Screenwriting Software”. Much of what was written there still stands but experience and various updates and changes have affected how much I use these apps and what I use them for.
Work The Case Of Charles Dexter Ward I did an interview this week with The Verge, about our Charles Dexter Ward podcast. You can read the piece here: https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/19/18106662/best-podcasts-2018-npr-slate-serial and, if you haven’t had a chance to catch the series yet, here’s the iTunes link (though you’
Writing Highland 2 This piece was written in May 2018 and since then I have had a few significant technical problems with Highland 2. I still think it's good but it hasn't reached it's potential yet and tech support is not as attentive as it could be.
