Interviews

A couple of good interviews for you to have a gander at:

Cory Doctorow (author, pundit)

One of the things I’ve noticed about writing every day is that there are days when writing that page feels like flying. Like the hand of God reached down and touched my keyboard, and every word is just pure gold. And then there are days that I feel I’m writing absolute, totally forgettable junk that shouldn’t have been committed to phosphors, let alone saved to disc. The thing is, a month later, you can’t tell the difference. The difference between a day when it feels like you’re writing brilliantly and a day when it feels like you’re writing terribly is entirely in your head, it’s not in the prose.

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Jack Thorne (TV and theatre writer, just announced as a judge for the BBC Sharps contest)

And just write anything. Paul Abbot said if you can get anyone to pay you to write a menu then take that job.

I’m currently rewriting my entry for Sharps (the deadline’s Monday!). It’s the first time I’ve written a script longer than 10 pages, so it was a bit intimidating aiming for 30 (How am I going to fill all that time?!) but then I started and suddenly there it is. I’m not going to claim it’s any good, obviously, but I do think it has potential even if I don’t get anywhere with the contest. More importantly, I feel like I’m improving and learning, and that’s very much why I wanted to enter something.