Lighting Up Stories
Phil Clarke (aka Philmscribe) is a UK-based script consultant and screenwriter with over twenty years service to cinema. After years working at the coal face of film on such features as Sleepy Hollow, Enigma, The Beach and two of the biggest box office franchises: Star Wars …
Here is a list of books that have changed my craft. I really hope some of them will help you too. So to be clear with everyone, I don’t get sponsored for this list and these books are not classified in order of importance either. …
Is there a secret path that leads to a successful career? Do you need to be some kind of genius to make it in your field? Or is it just that some people are more lucky than others? In my career, I had the opportunity …
A story without conflict is a good sedative. No one wants to read a book or watch a film where nothing is happening in the life of the characters. But when it comes to conflict or obstacles, writers often get confused. Many times, I’ve come …
OK. You have a few minutes ahead to write something. Great! Except that you don’t know where to start and you are staring at a blank screen. Not good. So today, I have put together some tricks that could give you the little push that …