by John Yorke | Jul 6, 2015 | craft skills, John Yorke, Red Rock, soaps, Wolf Hall
John Yorke has worked on the launch of Red Rock, a new Irish soap opera, and the hugely acclaimed TV adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall. Here he explains why – in the UK at least – the relationship between the two is critical for nurturing new writing talent....
by John Yorke Story Team | Jul 3, 2015 | factual TV, grants, new writers, screenwriting courses
How many times have you been told ‘You can’t do that?’ Angela Jobson decided she was going to write TV drama, no matter what the doubting voices said, and she has kept the faith through the many knockbacks of rejection slips, recession and folding training schemes....
by John Yorke Story Team | Jun 16, 2015 | characters, John Yorke, script advice, wants and needs
How do you start a story – and push through to the end? In a Q&A with students on our Storytelling for Screenwriting online course, John Yorke offered some practical tips. Including when it’s right to kill a character, tell a lie, or write about a hairbrush…. ...
