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NYCMidnight Short Screenwriting Challenge: Round One

This year I entered the NYCMidnight Short Screenplay Challenge, a competition that challenges writers around the world to create short screenplays (5 pages max) based on genre, location, and object assignments. The competition began at midnight in New York on Friday (5am Saturday for us here in the UK) and the countdown began. Each group was assigned a different genre, location, and object and we all had 28 hours to finish. As I’ve never written a professional …

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I Hate Sleeping

I don’t actually hate sleeping once I am asleep, but I do find the act of having to sleep a real pain. I have an over-active, creative brain that never switches off. In the dead of night when the world is quiet and I can hear myself think, I come up with my best ideas and find this the perfect time to write. The problem is, to get anything practical accomplished and to interact with …

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