Posts tagged: development

What I want from research is “This is what I want to do, you tell me how to do it,” because if it’s the other way round, if the expert’s telling me what to do, then it’s “Well you go and write the script then, I’ll go and get a job.
Tony Jordan (from BBC Writersroom)
6/26/10, 6:23pm SHORT URL: http://tmblr.co/ZPK-Fyi2del FILED UNDER: #research  #development  #ideas  #planning  Bookmark and Share
A character can act any way in character. Keep turning them [in the light], but not so fast and so often that they become blurred.
Russell T Davies, ‘Doctor Who: The Writer’s Tale’
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Overplanning often leads to an excellent second half with fantastic payoffs, but nobody gets there because the first half is shit.
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