Turn, Turn, Turn

Give yourself a deadline. All writers must self-impose them - otherwise it’s like summer holiday essays, which are traditionally completed in early September, by your mum.

Mark Blake, ‘How to be a Sitcom Writer’

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Stay away from the negative people. They are always there and just ready to suck you in.

Lucy Vee

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All work and no play makes ideas very hard to come by.

Ricky Whatley, Writer (via Twitter)

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It’s like you’re building up a head of steam and then at some point you hit that moment and then you write it.

Simon Ashdown, Writer, ‘Eastenders’

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The writing process is the hardest bit about making TV, but also the most enjoyable.

Ricky Gervais & Stephen Merchant (from ‘Extras: The Illustrated Scripts’)

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Writing is horrible - but having written is incredible.

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Rome wasn’t built in a day. But Tony Jordan’s ‘Dot’s Monologue’ script for Eastenders was.

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Lindelof has that disapproving look on his face because you’re not writing right now.

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Just hit these in the right order.

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