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Creativity Takes Courage by Jess Brown
Now we are on the countdown to the Twisted 3 launch event, I have been reflecting on what this ‘come back’ has meant to me. Having dabbled with previous screenwriting Create 50 projects, I remember spotting the Twiste…
Jessica S J Brown · 23 January 2025 · 1 min
Badge of Honour and the Power Of The Collective
Well done to all the writers and people behind the scenes who’ve helped to put together the latest Twisted 50. These books are a great incentive for procrastinating writers, or is that just me? to get our act together…
John Read · 5 December 2024 · 1 min
There’s never a write time by Andrew Perry
“I don’t have the time.” The main excuse of the writer for not writing. An excuse I’ve used myself, although I have managed to write an IT self-help guide, comics and a couple of graphic novels, as well as having stor…
Andrew Perry · 18 November 2024 · 3 min
Scream and Scream Again… with HookJaw!
It’s a funny thing being dyslexic. Especially undiagnosed GenX dyslexic. Turns out that paradoxically, many writers are also dyslexic. And it’s kind of a super power now. However, in the 80’s, loving horror and wantin…
Chris Jones · 24 September 2024 · 2 min
Twisted THREE Cheers!
Well stone the crows Chris Jones is encouraging us all to be ‘Twisted’ again! Following on from the shrieking success of previous anthologies, writers new and old are being asked to step up and submit a scarily suspen…
Eileen Wilson · 13 June 2024 · 2 min
‘Blood Sweat and Tears’ by Gingersnap Productions FINE CUT
Producer and writer Stephanie Ginger who divides her time between the Algarve and the UK, formed Gingersnap Productions specifically to make one of her own scripts Blood Sweat and Tears for Phase Two of the Impact50 i…
Chris Jones · 3 July 2019 · 1 min
The Spark by Bethany White
I was studying screenwriting as part of my undergrad degree when I heard about Create50. I always dreaded writing dialogue, and I’d finally come to the decision to focus on refining it within my writing. Little did I…
Bethany White · 21 December 2018 · 3 min
So those law studies weren’t wasted, after all… by Vera Mark
Question: What happens to a lawyer who sees the light? Answer: She becomes a writer. Update, several years later: She wonders if it really was such a great idea to chuck a solid career with good income… and… and… and……
Vera Mark · 15 November 2018 · 1 min
How a Sci-Fi Screenplay Ended up in an Anthology of Short Stories
Back in 2015, before the invention of Brexit and Trump, I wrote a short screenplay called Automatic Drive. Inspired by the development of driverless vehicles, I imagined a future in which corporations responsible for…
Mark Renshaw · 24 February 2018 · 2 min