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To write well it’s essential to know who you’re writing for; this is true for any writing genre, from children’s…
I’d never been at ease with the chemistry of theatre. With a film it’s a finished thing regardless of who’s…
Liberation isn’t all that’s needed to achieve the long-haul goal of a novel, it takes discipline too. Liberation isn’t all…
I’m old enough to be your father but in fact I’m your son; the child is father to the man.…
Alice turned me into an addict. I became an avid reader, always in search of fantasies; science fiction, adventure, mysteries…
I am writing to some extent about a city that no longer exists, a city of the mind, and tangled…
Not so much touch-typing as hammer-throwing; what that did for my finger joints I am only now beginning to find…
I still employ that childhood sweet-shop approach of chancing upon an author I like then consuming all her, or his,…
I also need to listen to the target audience. How and where will they watch the film? What have they…
People will ask how well sales are going, when what you want them to say is how beautiful that line…
Shades of meaning crowd round every piece of advice I ever received. I never took anything as truth, only as…
I find a photo of a green pick-up truck and remember open roads, low slung hills, ghost towns, dust balls,…
