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Writing Tips

Writing for different genres, formats and media can make very different demands on the writer, and on the way you conceive and tell your story.

Read the tips below to get a head start on the different types of story that we can help you with.



Paul Mayhew Archer on Sitcoms
Paul Mayhew Archer on Sitcoms
The co-writer of The Vicar of Dibley and developer of many BBC shows talks about the primary rules of sitcom.

 

Use your weapon
I write because I have secrets no-one else knows - Tony Jordan