Dreams and Creating Metaphors

Dreams are metaphors, symbolic representations which we don't fully understand until we study them in depth. Exactly the same may be said of creative work in any form: art, music, poetry, fiction, sculpture and so on. Read full article

Do Writers Need Editors?

An unexpected benefit of the internet is the availability of freelance script editors to individual writers. Previously concealed behind the impenetrable walls of publishers and broadcasters, these formerly mysterious folk are emerging into the freelance world bearing all kinds of specialist knowledge and skills. Read full article

Changing Times

When I first joined the BBC, as a reader in the Drama Script Unit, we trawled through every unsolicited script sent in by anyone at all, and if there was any hint of talent in the writing we sent an encouraging letter back, even if the format, layout and structure were misguided. Read full article

Eats chutes and leave's

Why can't people spell any more? It seems that nearly everyone under 40 has only a vague idea of correct grammar, punctuation and spelling, and the younger you are the greater your problems are likely to be. Read full article