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BUT WHAT NEXT? My Novel & The Current Abortion Debate

As anyone who follows me on Facebook or Twitter knows, this last week I have been imploring my friends and followers to email their MP regarding Nadine Dorries’ and Frank Field’s proposed amendments to the Health and Social Care Bill regarding abortion. For anyone who may have missed it, Dorries and Field believe women seeking abortions should be offered counselling “independently”, as they think charities who perform abortions such as Marie Stopes and BPAS, have a “financial conflict of interest” – in other words, those organisations are too “pro-abortion” to be “trusted” to give women impartial advice as those £s… Read More »BUT WHAT NEXT? My Novel & The Current Abortion Debate

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Fans of Fiction: cool or uncool? By Eleanor Ball

Fans of fiction. Are they cool? A lot of fan culture takes place online, and we’ve established now that the internet is cool. See, we’re on it as we speak, and we’re super-cool. The Social Network is one of the biggest films of the past decade; it seduced critics, hustled massive audiences, and rolled around in Oscars the way Colin Firth rolls around in melted chocolate (which he does, by the way, and often). And in The Social Network the geeky jabbering and lines of code are perpetually melded with beer, parties, and Victoria’s Secret models. These things are cool,… Read More »Fans of Fiction: cool or uncool? By Eleanor Ball

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Write What You Know? Then Write About Being A Writer! : P by Eleanor Ball

If you were at the Goldsmiths MA Scriptwriting Showcase last Thursday, thank you for attending! It was wonderful to see so many people there. The showcase was a great success, and we’re especially proud of it because we’re the first year to do it and we organised the lot on our own, from the casting to the gaffer tape. If you have any queries about the writers, actors or scripts, please hit me up here or on Facebook. Anyway, enough about my class’s brilliant initiative that makes you want to hire us instantly (which it does). There were lots of… Read More »Write What You Know? Then Write About Being A Writer! : P by Eleanor Ball

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#scriptchat Meet the Lovely Eleanor Ball!

As you know, recently I advertised for the first official Bang2write social networking-style intern, so all you lovely Bang2writers won’t go without your scriptwriting, industry & novels bloggage and linky-goodness while I take a few weeks off to have baby number 3. I was stunned by the number of interested parties and would love to thank everyone who got in touch, all of whom were completely 100% delicious in their own right! I know people **always** say “it was a hard decision” but it REALLY WAS, it was agony choosing!!! Without further ado then, I’d like to introduce the marvellous… Read More »#scriptchat Meet the Lovely Eleanor Ball!

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Novel Writing # 2: Moving From Screenwriting to Writing Novels

Professional scribe, long time Bang2writer & mate David Bishop has blogged about his experience of becoming a screenwriter after publishing forty trillion novels (100% true factoid) and has challenged me to blog my experiences of doing the reverse, so here it is. I’ve written on here before about how, as a child and teen, I *really* wanted to be a novelist. That was my dream. I loved movies and I loved TV – especially continuing drama – but it was books that made me go WOW. I thought the people who wrote them were the cleverest people in the world… Read More »Novel Writing # 2: Moving From Screenwriting to Writing Novels

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Routine Vs Inspiration

CitizenNate over at Twitter asked about Routine Vs Inspiration when I put a shout-out re: blog posts, so here are my thoughts. I’ve written before that time management is key when you’re a writer, be that professional or on spec. However, whilst paying or collaborative jobs will often dictate various things such as deadlines, schedules, when to get feedback, etc, solo spec jobs are a WHOLE different ball game. Just where does one start? Let’s fast-forward the brainstorming, outline and treatment process. I don’t think I’ve ever knowingly met a writer who does it the same as another. Myself, I… Read More »Routine Vs Inspiration

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Help – My Partner Won’t Let Me Write! What Do I Do??

Is This You And Your Partner? Does your life partner stop you from writing? Lots of writers have this issue. B2Wer Jade-K emailed me this week with this lament … I love my boyfriend to bits but he drives me nuts… He doesn’t get that I need to write my novel! He says we should watch spend time together after work and when the kids go to bed and gets proper narked if I want to write. I see from your blog you have kids, how do you manage it? Jade-K is not the first person to email me about… Read More »Help – My Partner Won’t Let Me Write! What Do I Do??

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Guest Post: An Insight Into The Realities of Self Publishing by Simon Lipson

I know a lot of you Bang2writers out there are very interesting in indie publishing, so many thanks to Simon Lipson, who shares his experiences with us today… Enjoy!—————————————–It all started with Losing It, an 80,000 word novel that took me 5 years to write, not because I sweated over the manuscript day in day out, more because I could never quite muster the enthusiasm to finish it, believing that getting it from my laptop to a prime table in Waterstones was a distant dream. I mean, a stand-up comedian trying to peddle a psychological thriller. Why bother? Then fellow… Read More »Guest Post: An Insight Into The Realities of Self Publishing by Simon Lipson

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Guest Post: Improve Your Prose With Poetry by Alexis Bonari

Many thanks to guest poster Alexis Bonari who reminds us – scriptwriters and novelists alike – that looking to *other* mediums can help us improve our writing, in this case: poetry. Love the notion of what a horse might think about… Enjoy!—————————————–If you’re looking to sharpen your vocabulary or shave off a few thousand words from your manuscript, try picking up a book of poetry. Many prose writers and novelists are taught to generally keep their noses in their genres; little mention is given to poetry if for no reason than the obvious disparity in length between a poem and… Read More »Guest Post: Improve Your Prose With Poetry by Alexis Bonari

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Novel Writing # 1

If you follow me on Twitter or Facebook or have read my bio, then you know I’m writing a novel at the moment. I wrote an in-depth pitch at first – about ten pages, rather like a script treatment – so technically I know exactly how the plot is supposed to work out. I have a beginning, a middle and end. I have all the character bios. I have a “statement of intent” (or writers’ vision). So actually, I guess it’s more like a series bible. So I’ve done all the planning I usually do. But that’s where the similarity… Read More »Novel Writing # 1

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Please Save The Libraries

I didn’t want to be a screenwriter when I was a little girl. I didn’t know there was such a job! Like so many children (and adults, now you mention it), I imagined movies and telly were somehow magically put together, appearing before us ready made. Looking back, I see how curious a belief this was: after all, I knew cartoons were (then) drawn; I knew actors acted. So why couldn’t I comprehend the people behind the page and the camera? I have, however, always wanted to be a writer. When I was a child, the top writing job (to… Read More »Please Save The Libraries

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Can’t Get Read? Yes You Can! 16 Top Tips On Becoming A Writer

Updated  1) No Unsolicited Material? I hear all the time from Bang2writers who say they can’t get read, citing the “no unsolicited material” a lot of prodco and publishing websites carry as the reason. Sometimes these writers will point out some agents will only consider referrals; other times they say independent producers won’t read their work either. These writers cite their lives as the epitome of *that* old Catch 22 “no work without experience; no experience without any work.” The answer? GET YOUR WORK SOLICITED! Le duh. Or, get your project produced without an agent. YES, it can be done! CHECK… Read More »Can’t Get Read? Yes You Can! 16 Top Tips On Becoming A Writer

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