Last Screenwriting class...

Can it be?! What shall we do without our precious Screenwriting classes? Left here to drown in our tears (and Scottish rain) as Richard flies off to sunny L.A. and the delights of Hollywood Hills Hotel... and I’m not even joking! The answer: we shall continue to have tutorials... over Skype! The age of video conferencing has well and truly come and it is now possible to say “Our Screenwriting tutor is in Hollywood – he does his teaching from there!”. I shall miss Richard’s classes but I am pleased to say I have made definite progress with my writing discipline. I am doing extra reading (nearly finished ‘Save the Cat’), watching and analysing more films, trying to keep coming up with new ideas, and giving more time to developing ideas. The area I need to work on next is character. My characters never feel real enough. I’ll probably start by checking out Joseph Campbell’s book ‘Hero with a Thousand Faces’…