Sitemap - 2024 - Word Count: Mews, News and Reviews

Word Count 88: A library secret, medieval dog names, and let's credit ghostwriters

Word Count 87: Writing prize for the 60+, pitfalls of NaNoWriMo

Word Count 86: Big personal news, new competition for fiction writers

Word Count 85: Philip Ralph on the state of the screen industry, Joel Morris's new comedy course...

Word Count 84: BBC and Female Pilot Club script calls, Black List moves in on books

Fieldwork: Learning a whole new way of thinking

Word Count 83: Newcastle writing centre plan, NaNoWriMoOhNo, Pagans pre-order

Word Count 82: Galley Beggar short story prize, how to answer the 'Why now?' question

Word Count 81: New Julian Simpson audio drama, new comedy course from Joel Morris

Word Count 80: Arthur C Clarke winner is…, fixing Ferris Bueller's Day Off in post, Marianne Dreams on Backlisted

Fieldwork: What can improv teach us about sitcom stakes?

Word Count 79: New comedy script competition & John Yorke's 10 Questions

Word Count 78: John Finnemore's cryptic murder mystery, eight gorgeous Detectorists book covers

Word Count 77: Book credits pages, talking to your audience, H2G2 on Backlisted

Fossil fuel activists attack literary and music festivals

Fieldwork: First draft done!

Word Count 76: Short story comp, explaining general meetings, Fieldwork update

Word Count 75: Clarke Award shortlist, Neil Gaiman interview, Canongate goes B Corp, The Fall Guy

Word Count 74: Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist, reader surveys, do people buy books?

Grist: Creating characters with personality

Fieldwork: Building a script one week at a time

Word Count 73: Write Start competition, an ecofont saves trees, the Origin Story of zombies

Word Count 72: The importance, or not, of bestseller lists and author's book promo efforts

Word Count 71: Catch up with Dean Burnett, new BBC training scheme, Gary Gibson on building a sustainable career

Catch up with Dr Dean Burnett in conversation

What is Grist?

Fieldwork: Lessons from the Big Comedy Conference

Word Count 70: Dean Burnett webinar, BAFTA Rocliffe comedy script comp, podcast with comedy author Joel Morris

Grist: Creating characters with personality

Fieldwork: Book reviews & writing progress

Word Count 69: Script competition, next Grist convo, radical empathy writing exercise

Word Count 68: Fern Academy essay prize, C4 New Writers' Scheme, writing tip from David Milch

Argleton, Chapter 14: Months later

Argleton, Chapter 13: The Centre

Grist: How plan continuation bias might affect character decisions

Word Count 67: Fellowship opportunity, ghostwriting conference, Grist, we see/we hear

Argleton, Chapter 12: Masquerade II

Argleton, Chapter 11: Fimden

Word Count 66: Two submissions, a Fieldwork update, BBC Comedy Collective and Cheshire Novel Prize

Fieldwork: What’s in store for 2024?

Argleton, Chapter 10: Journey to Fimden

Argleton, Chapter 9: Internet cafe