Quote: Zuhaib @ July 19 2009, 2:52 PM BSTused to write episodes for Doctors.
That's sooo last year. 
(ignore me Zuhaib)
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Quote: hey_nonny @ July 14 2009, 6:00 AM BSThave huge problems knowing where to put comma's, so I put em everywhere, and lots of them.
Simple solution there, just say your a big fan of Vonnegut, because he liked his commas, and used them a lot, an awful lot.
there's been a myriad of ways writers write over the years and I have read a few who have discarded form and grammar and syntax with a wild abandon in order to try and break the constraints of what they see as literary conservatism with an almost reactionist edge to it and have pursued a more nihilistic approach to the possibilities of how words can be formed into what we might still appreciate as the novel or as poetry bringing a level of stream of consciousness writing which to be fair is often simply an excuse for the vast amounts of alcohol and pharmaceuticals they prefer to ingest and this leads them to produce manuscripts which technically are perfectly readable and yes perhaps to some even evoke some new level of immediacy which they insist connects the writer with the reader in a more profound relationship however this can lead to vastly inflated and frankly nonsensical content where the writer might perhaps feel the right to deviate from their subject and form say by tim going to write in the third person as he is doing now or listing an irrelevant desciption of the minutiae of their actions he said as he typed blankly staring at the electronic keyboard the sound of trite pop hypocrisy blaring from the nearby radio and the sound of the raindrops behind him as though they were polite fingers tapping on the window panes asking for entry and they can therefore lose their readers completely there is perhaps too much snobbery in the correct way to present a text but one has to wonder what is so very wrong with telling a story or stating ones case with simple consideration for the reader after all style is never a substitute for content and the novel or the poem or prose work has developed form and structure for a reason hasn't it not that you'd ever get james f**king joyce to agree with this the drunken old sod going on about his poo and prostitutes all the bloody way through his dull and prosaic day not even stopping for a f**king full stop finnegans wake finnegans wank more like...
Yeah! What he said.
Quote: Tim Walker @ July 19 2009, 9:41 PM BSTthere's been a myriad of ways writers write over the years and I have read a few who have discarded form and grammar and syntax with a wild abandon in order to try and break the constraints of what they see as literary conservatism with an almost reactionist edge to it and have pursued a more nihilistic approach to the possibilities of how words can be formed into what we might still appreciate as the novel or as poetry bringing a level of stream of consciousness writing which to be fair is often simply an excuse for the vast amounts of alcohol and pharmaceuticals they prefer to ingest and this leads them to produce manuscripts which technically are perfectly readable and yes perhaps to some even evoke some new level of immediacy which they insist connects the writer with the reader in a more profound relationship however this can lead to vastly inflated and frankly nonsensical content where the writer might perhaps feel the right to deviate from their subject and form say by tim going to write in the third person as he is doing now or listing an irrelevant desciption of the minutiae of their actions he said as he typed blankly staring at the electronic keyboard the sound of trite pop hypocrisy blaring from the nearby radio and the sound of the raindrops behind him as though they were polite fingers tapping on the window panes asking for entry and they can therefore lose their readers completely there is perhaps too much snobbery in the correct way to present a text but one has to wonder what is so very wrong with telling a story or stating ones case with simple consideration for the reader after all style is never a substitute for content and the novel or the poem or prose work has developed form and structure for a reason hasn't it not that you'd ever get james f**king joyce to agree with this the drunken old sod going on about his poo and prostitutes all the bloody way through his dull and prosaic day not even stopping for a f**king full stop finnegans wake finnegans wank more like...
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I've been writing for about 13 years on and off.
I started going into journalism, I got a competition credit from 'The Daily Record' at college and went downhill from there. I decided to get into Screenwriting because I like it more (no writing about cats up trees etc); you can write about things you are interested in (there is no call for crime journalists in newspapers these days, it's all celebrity shite) and believe it or not the chances for getting paid in screenwriting are a lot better and the payoffs are also better. If you don't have a relative in the journo business it's the toughest industry in the world. If you write a great script then people are going to want to hire you.
I have yet to be paid for a freelance story, and you also get criticism for being a PR guy if you're a freelancer (sometimes that's an attempt to steal your story). I think sometimes the reason no paper will pay freelancers money for stories are because they don't originate from the paper (But if you get an exclusive of a celebrity with their pants down you may get paid a few hundred quid).
So now I'm off to do my MA in Screenwriting and I'm enjoying it more than journalism. I used to have dreams of being some sort of Hunter S Thomson character, but with no magazine to make myself legitimate that's not likely. However I am a fan of movies and sitcoms and I love writing scripts; this is every bit just as good.