DAI HARD - Dai Evans lost confidence in the bedroom the day the Pot Noodle factory closed. Can he rediscover his mojo before his wife is whisked away by her predatory personal trainer?
Click below for 15 page sample of my short!
#Screenwriting
#amwriting
Itโs fucking Orwellian.
Create a society of politically dis-engaged, uneducated people, pour your bile, untruths and propoganda down their throats and watch them vote for you in their millions while you simultaneously screw them over.
#exitpoll
#GE2019
Well, it might only be a shopping agreement, and might only be a hundred quid... But I just received my first ever contract/money from screenwriting!
Can I say I'm officially in showbiz yet, or have you gotta get something ON a screen to say that?
#screenwriting
#amwriting
You spend months alone with your characters and no-one else on the planet knows they exist. Then one day people thousands of miles away also connect with them and you receive a lovely email like this. Thank you Nicholl!
#screenwriting
Maybe Nicholl likes a Celt? Last year my Welsh rugby player got a QF, now my Scottish trawlerman has done it. Congrats to all the placers, and good luck for the SF!
#screenwriting
Thrilled that my script about Welsh rugby managed to engage a reader way over there in L.A, and enough for them to put me in the QF's of
#nicholl
.
#WritingCommunity
#screenwriting
Not sure Iโve ever watched a show that is simultaneously depressing, gripping, annoying and intriguing.
But sorry Twitter, it is NOT boring.
#marriage
#bbc
I want everyone to see how funny and cool the South Wales Valleys are, so Iโm buzzing that THE DAVIESES has made Semi Final of
@ShoreScripts
TV Pilot contest. Thanks guys!
#screenwriting
All week we'll be announcing the 72 writers who have taken part in our 6 Voices development groups for 2023. In reverse alphabetical order (because why should Wales always come last?) firstly the 12 writers from our Wales hub, meet them over on our blog
My screenwriting 2023!
Good:
1. BBC Writersroom
2. Nicholl Semi Final
3. Two small shopping agreements
4. Training as a script reader
Not good:
1. Scripts not getting past actual industry gatekeepers
2. Some worrying script feedback (hence [4] above)
But, onwards!
#screenwriting
In 2023 I was a Paramount Writers Mentorship finalistโฆ
Was a Scriptapalooza finalistโฆ
Picketed in solidarity with the WGAโฆ
Saw a movie I helped produce, East Bay, at Cinequestโฆ
And had an absolute blast with fellow screenwriters at AFF.
Absolutely thrilled (and honoured) that Philip Shelley has chosen two of my scripts to go into his new library of unproduced scripts. I'm already learning so much from this brilliant resource!
#WritingCommunity
#screenwriting
Zero placements in my first 15 competitions and now a QF for my short film and a SF for my pilot in the space of 3.
The lesson I'm learning is 'Don't let the failures knock you down. There's too many of 'em!'
#WritingCommunity
#screenwriting
Thinking of entering our Open Call? Writer
@Phil_Hamer1
explains what happened when he entered last year and gained a place in our Voices writer development programme ๐
Decided to 'train' as a script reader purely to make my own scripts more industry-ready. (I won't consult, I just wanna be better myself).
The book 'Reading Screenplays', by Lucy Sher, has already shown me what I was doing wrong and what I can do right.
#amwriting
#screenwriting
Learning when to stop writing is key. I get three hours a day of peak brain power/writing quality, then it JUST slips a little.
That's the moment to switch to research or edits. You risk losing quality if you plough on into another scene.
#screenwriting
#WritingCommunity
Might sound unrealistic, but as writers I think we should go into every new scene aiming to make it of sufficient quality that it would work as a stand alone short.
Every single scene.
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#WritingCommunity
Any UK screenwriters on here used The Blacklist website to get your script seen? Even if you've written for a UK audience?
Would love to hear if you'd recommend it...
#screenwriting
#Writingcommunity
Thoroughly recommend this! โฌ๏ธ
I submitted and ended up on the brilliant 2023 voices scheme. Best thing thatโs ever happened to my writing craft (and my confidence).
Brandon Lewis is the perfect physical representation of all those loud-clapping gammons on the election debates who snarled and hollered every time someone says we should help the poor.
#marr
#GeneralElection2019
#ToriesOut
Looks like
#frankieboyle
has taken last weeks criticism on board. Israel and windrush in his sights now, albeit a week too late after his Corbyn-slashing last week.
Visit historic BBC HQ โ
Fantastic talk by Jesse Armstrong & John Yorke โ
Meet BBC Voices pals and pretend to be on tele! โ
What a fantastic day for a TV geek, thank you
@bbcwritersroom
!!
You can tell Labour have surged in the polls when the top two stories across the BBC are desperate, bodged-together non-stories trashing Corbyn (including a meeting taped by the ever-reliable
@margarethodge
)
#bbcbias
#Radio4
#marr
So much more flippancy, bravado and narcissism from these politicians than from the humble, devastated civilians in last nights programme.
#insidethepresidentswarroom
๐จ New Blog: Following the announcements of our 72 Voices 2023 writers last week, participant
@williams2mark
shares his experience of being selected for our screenwriting development programme.
Read about the process here >>
I've just participated in the BBC Writersroom 'Voices' programme, and here's my blog about how it went!
(Spoiler - it's superb)
#screenwriting
#amwriting
#Bodyguard
Work obsessed ex-forces hero cop sitting in spartan flat drinking too much and looking at his estranged kids paintings on the wall...
My Cliche-ometer just exploded!
50% of my brain: โAw 3 hours of drunk grey haired dinosaurs in a TV studio playing for drunk grey haired dinosaurs sat in front of their TVโsโ
The other 50% of my brain: โBloody hell Gary Numan and Albert Lee were the best music Iโve seen on tele for years!โ
#OGWT
Honoured that my script 'Side Step' has been invited onto the curated marketplace of
@FilmarketHub
, and am currently sourcing local photographers to make my poster. Have you had a script invited on? Was it an exciting experience?
#Screenwriting
#WritingCommunity
I always write 6am til 9am (before day job starts). The ideas tend to flow and the story tumbles out.
Today, as a one off, I've started at 11am. There is NOTHING there! Feels like my brain is trapped in fog.
Anyone else get this if you start later?
#screenwriting
#amwriting
I could totally believe a bent Yank cop trying to pin 13 unsolved murders on this weak minded guy by threatening his kids.
#serialkillerwithpiersmorgan
It was at least simpler when the working class were being betrayed by Mondeo man
But now the working class is being betrayed by the working class
They actually believe that hate-fuelled coward Boris Johnson cares for them more than the Labour Party do??
#socialistsunday
#Marr
@KattMenny
Doesn't count as advice, but if you're going back to your first ever script you'll probably shear off about 30% of the dialogue and absolutely hollow out your action lines! ๐
@ALEX_01EFC
He's a 21 year old kid surrounded by frothing fans, what on earth was he supposed to do? Come on, you can't be chasing them down the street like this. It's not on.
@tweetssavepaper
@BBCOne
No. He was uncovering and exposing that very same worn out narrative that you describe. How on earth have you shoe-horned white male privilege into this??
@USAToffeePod
P.S Guys, you like a stat. In the 27 months since Pickford smashed Van Dijk there have been 14 red cards in Everton matches:
Everton 13-1 Opponents
In the previous 27 months the red cards were:
Everton 10-10 Opponents
From a writing perspective,
#TheWomanInTheWall
first episode is sublime. Itโs gripping, haunting, funny and pacey. I think theyโll be teaching it in
#screenwriting
classes one day. Canโt wait for Ep 2 tonight!
My first ever competition final! This, an appearance on Krypton Factor, and fevered structure dreams all discussed in my latest blog...
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#WritingCommunity
Iโve figured out tonights
#ElectricDreams
A person youโve always known and loved, but suddenly you look at them and thereโs just... something missing.
Itโs as if they have been inhabited by an unthinking zombie...
This is about Brexit!!
Crazy night. SIDESTEP won best screenplay at Int'l Film Festival Of Wales, LIMBO makes final, then I chat on stage with
@UKFILMFESTIVALS
. No idea what I babbled, but it was a fun night and the short films shown were superb!
#Screenwriting
#WritingCommunity
@StreathamRovers
Gwen once lobbed a boiled egg at Joey Barton at a pre-season friendly then blamed me when the old bill came over.
They gave me a right pasting and she just stood there laughing her tits off โค๏ธ
As Welsh screenwriters, we can help by providing ever more rich, cinematic stories that put Wales onto TV screens worldwide. Look at how the Wrexham Doc brought US tourists to Wrexham!
#screenwriter
#Wales
Back in the gym after 2 yrs outdoors, and now thereโs young fellas setting up TRIPODโs (right next to the dumbbell rack) to stream themselves lifting on their iPhonesโฆ
Man, I feel old ๐ณ
#Weightlifting
#Gym
After exceeding expectations by sounding vaguely coherent for 45 minutes,
#Boris
faded badly at the end.
#Corbyn
finished much more strongly.
#BBCLeadersDebate
Just cut my 56 page lockdown drama to 30 pages for a short film comp. Many lovely moments scythed away. Not a SINGLE line of Action/Dialogue now less than 100% width, not a syllable wasted
It'll be like reading double concentrate orange squash.
#screenwriting
#WritingCommunity
@RodriguezFruit
The long extinct 'Let's agree to disagree'.
Other than that, I'm the only under-90 man left on earth who exclaims 'Heavens to Murgatroyd' when I stub my toe. It's cost me several girlfriends.
My latest feature. Logline:
When a timid Welshman witnesses a gangland murder on the Costa Del Sol, he and his wife become targets of the Russian Mafia.
(See bio for website with script sample!)
#amwriting
#screenwriting
Blorenge (a mountain in Wales) is the only word that rhymes with Orange. Hereโs me eating an orange on the blorenge this morning!
(No, I didnโt do this huge walk just for the photo op)
#Abergavenny
#Blorenge
My script 'Side Step'.
Friday: Crash and burn in
@PAGEawards
Saturday: An encouraging 'CONSIDER' (plus superb advice) from
@ShoreScripts
coverage.
A microcosm of this subjective business, and reminder to absorb all the blows and keep on writing.
#screenwriting
#WritingCommunity
@jessphillips
Yes very well done, but if you canโt see why Tom Watson has been terrible for our chances of getting in to government then... well youโre part of it too arenโt you. Any chance to stick the knife in and you take it.
@andmichaelgreen
Guess Iโll leave the oven on for 14 hours if I find a tasty apple pie?
Iโm no eco warrior but โlet it play throughโ seems a pretty energy-wasteful message.
@TelegraphLife
I cannot believe I am reading this. Youโre telling your readers lager and coffee will be just as good as water. It is a very flawed study. You are idiots.
Itโs one of them โwaking up 4am in hot angst at how members of my family have been voting for everything bad for them like brexit and comedy villain Toriesโ kind of mornings.
Now I gotta do my day on five hours kip ๐
#BorisJohnson
#BrexitHasFailed
@BBCSport
Mitchell-Blake has nothing to be sorry for. Tortu is in 10.1 shape, Mitchell-Blake, a 200 runner, is in 10.3 shape. The quicker guy on form won.
#Tokyo2020
#Athletics
Swear, if Englands collection of one dimensional robots get to the semiโs while Wales and Ireland have gone out then Iโm switching to Lacrosse ๐คฎ๐คฎ
#RWC2023
#ENGvFIJ
Seems like casual abuse and bullying makes up 80% of overall Twitter, but only about 1% of
#ScreenwritingTwitter
.
Maybe a career in writing doesnโt appeal to shouty, frothing people.
#writingcommmunity
@RodriguezFruit
My protagonist neglected to do the top button of his shirt up when Mrs Lewis delivered his gooseberry pie.
He later tickled his own moustache in the presence of a church deacon.
Itโs a frankly obscene 9/10.
#bradleywalsh
reads the chasers questions about three times faster than the contestants questions, especially during a close finish. Surely Iโm not the only one to notice?
#thechase
@thechaseuk
Gaslighting taken to mind boggling, stratospheric new levels at the UN General Assembly by
@RussiaUN
.
โWe have harmed no civilians,
#Ukraine
are raining bombs down on their own peopleโฆโ
#UkraineRussiaWar
What an opportunity today for young people to say:
We don't want this tax-evasion-Brexit.
We don't want Newspaper owners to choose who becomes Prime Minister.
We don't want Etonians to run the country any more
Youngsters... this is YOUR day
#GE2019
#GeneralElection2019
#GOVOTE
Iโve had lots of great screenwriting advice (and some terrible) in my 3 years writing. Hereโs a blog I wrote a while ago, crystallising all the best bits down into 7 key pointsโฆ
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#amwriting