My application for the Writers Guild of Great Britain got accepted! But what does this mean?
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The BFI Short Film Fund Application Is A Marathon And A Sprint!
Short films need funds to get made. Can the BFI help? Good luck with it!
What’s A ‘Resting’ Job?
What do writers do, when the writing jobs go a bit quiet?
Nurturing Creativity: What’s An R&D?
In this post, I answer some common questions I get asked about the R&D process.
Cheers! Beat My Fear Of Exams & Passed My WSET Level 1 Award!
As we’re creeping towards New Year, just a little note about achieving goals.
1st Rule Of Write Club: We Don’t Talk About Write Club
To coincide with Fight Club’s 20th Anniversary and five years since our Write Club first started, I wanted to pay tribute to both!
Flirting With Flash Fiction
Instastory Just Got Real. Literally. A few months ago, I was walking around London, turned a corner and came face to face with this amazing building. I snapped a picture and immediately shared it on my Instagram, like most people in my generation. And like most writers, the cogs in my imagination started whirring and…
The Beach House Diaries ~ Building The Dream House
Thursday, June 2nd 2016 Day 3 – Building The Dream House After an intense few months of writing, re-writing, editing and re-editing, not to mention the mother of all merry-go-round of casting changes, rehearsals for the staged reading of my play The Beach House, was finally upon us. An idea I had come up with in…
The Beach House Diaries ~ The Anatomy of Editing
May 5th 2016 Day 2 – The Anatomy of Editing Editing is like surgery, anatomy to be more specific. Before you laugh, just hear me out. When you cut a line or two, it may seem like nothing… but then when you realise, that one line actually carried a really important part of the…
The Beach House Diaries ~ The Read Through
I’m back! And oh boy do I have a lot to share! Okay so, I’ve been getting a lot of messages from you guys on Twitter and email, asking me about this whole process. And I know that a lot of you really are thinking about venturing into this world or are just very curious…
Christina Alagaratnam 