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Word Count 58: The problem with blurbs, Susan Cooper at the British Library
Plus BAFTA Rocliffe, Channel 4 Screenwriting Course 2024 & Cheshire Novel Prize Kids, Scriptnotes on character and voice, Amazon's AI guidelines and…
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Word Count 57: Arthur C Clarke Award results, what James Gunn's music choices tell us about Guardians of the Galaxy
Plus podcasts about The Good Place and Asterix, some writer's strike news, and extremely fluffy snow leopard cubs.
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Word Count 56: Tag and the Six Act Structure, Sex Education, John le Carré Scholarship
Plus BBC Writers Room Open Call, Kindle Newsstand closes, fake books on Amazon & Goodreads, FTC lawsuit could break up Amazon, Filmmakers Podcast talks…
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Can publishing survive the oncoming AI storm?
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Word Count 53: The state of AI and the Goodreads fiasco
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Word Count 40: London Book Fair, the liberation of imperfection and binge watching Detectorists
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Word Count 45: Big Comedy, Radio 4 open call, and US screenwriters vote to strike
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Word Count 54: SAG-AFTRA has entered the game
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First Five Minutes: Sex Education
What do we learn in the first five minutes of S1E1?
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Word Count 55: BAFTA screenwriting comp, GQ shenanigans, streaming's candle sputters...
Plus massive Bloomsbury profits, a brief history of Marvel Studios, TikTok owner ByteDance becomes a publisher, two writing craft podcasts, and the…
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Word Count 54: SAG-AFTRA has entered the game
The actors are striking and it matters for all of us.
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Word Count 53: The state of AI and the Goodreads fiasco
Just two main topics this week but one is important and the other is mindboggling.
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Word Count 52: Ada Lovelace Day is back! Fieldwork update, Clarke Award shortlist
Plus Alex North webinar available for catch-up, visualising plots, Blackadder lost pilot, why it’s hard to hear dialogue, group dynamics and more!
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Fieldwork: Do you know where your keys are?
Are you sure? Absolutely sure? Because I know I don't have them.
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Catch up with Alex North in Conversation
Watch Alex and Suw chat about the ups and downs of a writing career, pseudonyms, writing processes, and much more.
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Word Count: Mews, News and Reviews
Word Count: Mews, News and Reviews
Word Count is Suw Charman-Anderson's regular round up of writing tips, podcast recommendations, book reviews, and thoughts about TV, film and more. Continue on to subscribe to Fieldwork, which follows my comedy short about ecologists in the field!
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