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What I’ve Learnt about Screenwriting: Part I, The Idea

What I’ve Learnt about Screenwriting: Part 1, The Idea Williams: scribbles hard, scribbles daily. So I’ve been doing this for a while now, and for some reason I feel a powerful, hubristic, intimations-of-mortality urge to communicate nuggets of web-friendly wisdom to all you aspiring screenwriters out there, who will no doubt be stealing jobs from me this time next year. Specifically, I have a movie coming out in a month and so for the next few weeks I want to track that project

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Tom Williams

Tom has been a development executive (Fine Line Features), a script reader (Working Title), a script editor (The Script Connection) and finally a screenwriter (Chalet Girl, BASE, Kajaki). He is repped by Sean Gascoine at United Agents. No he will not read your fu*king script, Industrial Scripts do that and do it well thanking ye kindly. You can follow Tom on Twitter, check out his IMDb profile, read more of his scribblings and tell him where to go in the comments box below…

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