Writing Drama

This revised and updated edition is a complete resource for anyone who wants to write and produce a television drama series or create an original series, as well as for teachers in screenwriting classes and workshops. It leads listeners step-by-step through each stage of the development and writing process, offering practical industry information and artistic inspiration. This edition also takes listeners into the future, engaging provocative issues about the interface between traditional TV and emerging technologies.

Doing Time: For the prison writers whose work is included in this anthology, it means more than "serving a sentence"; it means staying alive and sane, preserving dignity, reinventing oneself, and somehow retaining one's humanity. For the last quarter century the prestigious writers' organization PEN has sponsored a contest for writers behind bars to help prisoners face these challenges. The contest honors the best short stories, plays, essays, and poems among hundreds submitted annually by men and women nationwide.

What keeps a reader curious? It’s the story. You might have a dazzling prose voice and plausible characters, but if nothing happens, the reader is likely to lose interest. So where do you find story ideas? How do you make them into a captivating read? What’s your personal vision? Do you know what genre you are best suited to write? What is literary fiction and how do you write that? How will you give your book depth without seeming preachy or bringing the plot to a standstill? What are the hidden structural patterns that ply the reader’s emotions, regardless of your genre or style? ...

The Vatican Ruby is a gripping story of determination. Determination to uncover the mystery surrounding rare and valuable Vatican relics stolen in 1812. A treasure eventually hidden and abandoned in the wilderness of a wild and mostly unexplored coastline on an island in the east Indian Ocean.

George Washington crossing the Delaware. Tom Paine reading, “These are the times that try men's souls.” Nathan Hale's defiant cry, “I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.” And the Declaration of Independence proclaims the birth of a new nation, the United States of America. The Summer Soldiers takes us into the second year of the American Revolution as the story of Josiah Hartford and the people around him continues to unfold. Hugo, Josiah's nemesis, struggling with his doubts about the war even as he must hide who he truly is. Violet, following Josiah to New York...

A perfect love story. Possible in real life? Maybe... maybe not! Siddharth’s perfect love story is over. Life is asking him to compromise and go along with his family’s wishes. Will he be able to do justice to someone else under the shadow of his reluctant decision? Will he be able to create a place for someone in his heart again? A die-hard romantic, Naina is in search of a partner who will love and cherish her... only her. An only child, her life was perfect. Till Siddharth said ‘yes’. How can Naina agree to an arranged marriage with someone who doesn’t have a romantic bone and ...

Gotham Writers' Workshop has mastered the art of teaching the craft of writing in a way that is practical, accessible, and entertaining. Now the techniques of this renowned school are available in this audiobook. Once you've listened—and written—your way through this book, you'll have a command of craft that will enable you to turn your ideas into effective short stories and novels. You will be a writer.

The Novelist is the story of Charlotte Clarke, journalist, writer and fictional daughter of the 19th century novelist, Marcus Clarke, whose most popular work is For the Term of His Natural Life. Charlotte challenges herself to write a sequel to her father's celebrated book, twisting her father's ending to suit her beginning-where protagonists Rufus Dawes and Sylvia Vickers survive a supposedly fatal ending in a shipwreck. As a natural sleuth, Charlotte investigates-in the role of journalist for the newspaper-local crimes and their outcomes in court. This alone attracts unwanted company, ...

C. S. Lewis offers a magisterial take on the literature and poetry of one of the most consequential periods in world history, providing deep insight into some of the greatest writers of the age, including Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, William Tyndale, John Knox, Dr. Johnson, Richard Hooker, Hugh Latimer, Christopher Marlowe, John Donne, and Thomas Cranmer.

Martin Delany University has provided home, career, and stability for generations of Bennets. It’s 1999 and the latest generation of Bennets prepare for the new millennium, unaware of the changes the year 2000 will bring. For Professor Elizabeth Bennet, that means questioning her position and dedication within the prestigious HBCU. She’s also tired of defending her rap music studies, especially to stuck up outsiders like visiting economics professor Dr. William Darcy. When her sister Jane takes an interest in Darcy’s best friend, Charles Bingley, she forces herself to tolerate him, at...

For nearly two centuries, the authorship of William Shakespeare's plays has been challenged by writers and artists as diverse as Sigmund Freud, Mark Twain, Henry James, Helen Keller, Orson Welles, Malcolm X, and Sir Derek Jacobi. How could a young man from rural Warwickshire, lacking a university education, write some of the greatest works in the English language?

The electrifying continuation of the Bond of Brothers stories...Magnanotron: The Evolution takes the reader two years after the action filled Russia Affair. A remarkable new discovery has come to the creators of Magnanotron and now it has evolved into something much more deadly. Follow Jason Patrick and Commander Ryan as the call of duty comes from the President. America's Military and Special Forces enter the fight to stop another even more unthinkable threat. Now under the capable leadership of legendary sniper and Special Forces soldier Sergeant Major Tex Larson – with the help of ...

Their lives weren’t meant to collide… She is known as the Sehgal Princess—beautiful, cold and unattainable. After a scandal took over her life, Sheena Sehgal has kept up a perfect façade in front of the world for years. Only those closest to her, knew her, the real her. With no real purpose and sense of direction, her life is dull, boring and meaningless, but all that changes once she meets Rajiv Mehra. He irks her like no other. She doesn’t like him. Yet, she ends up falling for him. But one chance meeting changed everything... Rajiv Mehra, ruthless shipping magnate, and playboy, ...

Soaps are very popular around the world. Think of Emmerdale, Coronation Street or Eastenders or Home and Away or Neighbours. They are brilliant entertainment but who writes them? Well they have teams of writers and they are always on the look out for new talent. You too could be a soap writer. Chris Thompson was a full time teacher until he started writing, now he writes for Emmerdale. he has also written for the BBC radio series The Archers so if anyone can guide you to becoming a soap writer then surely Chris Thompson can. He takes you through all of the stages in writing a popular drama ...

Arriving in a rain-swept city after a solo bus journey, eighteen-year-old Talia's world breaks wide open. Soon she is chasing chickens, telling bad jokes to a prospective boss, fielding a roommate's insults about her décor, all the while homesick for a place that never existed. Funny, harsh, touching, and uniquely observant, Talia speaks to the reader as if to a best friend. In a chance encounter Talia meets George, a young man whose passion for building sailboats sparks a conversation that leads to much more. When a sailing job takes George away to Mexico, Talia struggles with ghosts from...

"It has everything every reader craves for mystery, thrill, romance, plot that stays with you!" - Amazon Reader The bonds of family are unbreakable. From bestselling Author Sapna Bhog comes a new romance series of friendship, loyalty, lies and betrayal. He never expected to run into her… SHAURYA RAJPOOT is a man of many secrets. A sudden meeting with Myra Gupta changes the course of his life. Bound by a vow to his family, Shaurya keeps her at a distance…until she shatters all the barriers between them. Staying away from her soon becomes impossible, resisting her…unimaginable. She ...

Saloni Malhotra is miserable with her lonely and servile existence in Chicago, while her husband Dr. Manish Chawla is too selfish to be bothered about his wife’s happiness. It’s watching her sister’s closeness to her new husband that actually opens Saloni’s eyes to the lack in her life. Aarav Chopra hasn’t looked at another woman since he fell in love with the seventeen-year-old Saloni. The nine years in-between seem to disappear when he sets eyes on her again at her sister’s wedding. But this time round, his love stretches to include her son too, as Mitesh holds not just ...

Words of a Feather is a stunning collection of Short Stories, Poems and Sketches from author, Robert E. Kearns. There's something inside for every taste, and Words of a Feather comes packed with hours of reading pleasure. Replete with entertainment, there is sure to be laughs, tears, spills and thrills. Satisfying pleasures of the mind, Words of a Feather is a book you'll want to read again and again.

In Jonathan True's "Honorable Order of Drunken Liars," readers are transported into the midst of a unique writers' group that defies the challenges of the pandemic by convening in the familiar setting of a local bar. Led by the charismatic storyteller William S. Black, this eclectic group of wordsmiths gathers to share their tales, discuss life's intricacies, and find solace in each other's company during uncertain times. Against the backdrop of social distancing and safety precautions, the writers' group transforms the bar into a sanctuary of creativity and camaraderie. As they sit at a ...

The bonds of family are unbreakable. From bestselling Author Sapna Bhog comes a new romance series of friendship, loyalty, lies and betrayal. She was just the means to an end…until she started to become more. Faced with her parents insistent matchmaking, TIYA SOOD claims to be in a steady relationship. To her bad luck, she blurts out the name of Vihaan Rajpoot—bad boy and serial heartbreaker—as her boyfriend. Convincing Vihaan to agree to her ill-advised plan and play the role of temporary boyfriend was easy, but staying away from him…so hard, especially when she’s been attracted ...