Your Screenplay Sucks! is a checklist of 100 of the most common errors that screenwriters - particularly new screenwriters - make, that stop the reader in their tracks and leave the writers opus forever destined to be filed under ‘bin’. Nicely sectioned into three ‘acts’ that cover Storytelling (idea, character, structure, scenes, dialogue), Physical [...]
Being a big fan I’m always wary when a book turns up from a new author that trumpets itself as the next Pratchett. Let’s face it he’s an impossible act to follow and I think it’s a reasonable assumption that any author would cringe at the thought of being placed under that spotlight, especially [...]
The Disgruntled Writer was lucky enough to meet Michelle Paver recently, author of the six-book series, Chronicles Of Ancient Darkness, an epic coming-of-age tale about a boy and his wolf set 6000 years ago. As the last book in the series, Ghost Hunter, hit the shops, Michelle took some time to talk to me [...]
This is Jaine Fenn’s second novel and while it’s set in the same universe as her first - Principals Of Angels - it is a very different thing, reading much more like a traditional fantasy novel.
It begins with Karin, a young, slightly rebellious widow in a small and remote village, out during a storm and [...]
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