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Storytelling versus Plotting

Easy backup and sharing files for writers

The Heroines Journey

Writing your first play - for screenwriters

'The Sequence Approach' by Paul Gulino

The Scriptwriters real world - Should I have a job? Freelance? Starve?

Why it pays to have as many passports as possible - International Co-Pro soup recipes...

The problem with wanting to be a Professional Writer. Part one: Mountaineering.

Stories in space rather than time

Should you REALLY write a novel instead? (Or things for dramatists to think about before Nanowrimo!)

You can't sell out - you have to buy in...

Writing for free?

Why you shouldn't make that short film - and some advice if you go ahead anyway...

Your characters journeys mirror your own - face it and embrace it...

The People you meet on the way... the art finding the right ones

Can designers teach writers anything new? Hell yes...

Whether to write a treatment or not

Toddlers and Writing

You need to hear your work

FreeFilmUK

Latest Stuff

Chorascape

I'm working on something for the boys. I mean boys literally. A dystopian serial for boys in the 7-10 age group.

You can keep up with my work in progress Tumblr blog which had snippets of text, drawings and musing about 'writing from the hip'.

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This Project is filed under
Online & Transmedia & Transmedia & Writing for the Internet
Six years to get this one to the start line
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This Blog entry is filed under
Personally speaking... & Writing for the screen
Sometimes you just have to get away...
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Personally speaking...
Boy on a Bike

A film about growing up in New Zealand.

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This Project is filed under
Film Script
A film about growing up in New Zealand.
The Rig

Government, greens and media fight to control the hype around the opening of a new oil rig - but when mother nature's ire is pricked it becomes a fight to save people, not the planet.

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This Project is filed under
Film Script
Spec Horror/Action Film Script
Taking a Bath

Dyslexia, Albert Camus and a fight over who gets custody of the bath...

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Short Film
Short film, 12mins 35mm, 1994. Shown Wellington & Auckland Film Festivals, SBS and CANAL+
Weightless

Two flatmates decide to write a thriller set in the small fishing village of Ngawi together. Only time, a lack of sleep and talent and a excess of lust stand in their way...

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Radio Play
Radio Play, RadioNZ 1994
Ride on Time

A comedy about the world's oldest bicycle courier riding on the hottest day of the year - and given the job of getting some semen across town for an impatient lesbian couple...

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Radio Play
Radio play Broadcast Radio NZ 2000 and CBC Canada 2005
The Vampyre Dances

Everything is up for grabs in the fledgling colony when a Vampire turns up in NZ a few days before the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi. An epic satire about land rights, art... and golf.

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Stage Play
The Vampyre Dance, stageplay, Circa Theatre, Wellington NZ, 1996
Deviations

A black comedy of sexual manners.

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Stage Play
Deviations, Stage Play, Lamama & Corrong Theatres, Melbourne/Canberra Australia, 2000

Project Type

  • Film Script
  • Online
  • Radio Play
  • Short Film
  • Stage Play
  • Transmedia

Writing Topics

  • Being a 'Professional'
  • Book Review
  • How things work
  • Narrative theory & method
  • Personally speaking...
  • Writing Fiction
  • Writing for the Internet
  • Writing for the screen
  • Writing for Theatre

Digital Media

  • Location based storytelling
  • Transmedia

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