Screenwriting & The Fine Art of Procrasturbating

  I’ve always been a big fan of those books that are a collection of interviews with Hollywood screenwriters where they tell you, with grating self-deprecation and lashings and lashings of false-modesty, how they got their big break to their billion dollar Oscar winning career, their learned thoughts on the tricky rewrite process, and the hardest scene they’ve ever had to crack that then went on to make the Top 10 Moments of Brilliance of All Time. With shelves and

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Tamzin Rafn

Tamzin Rafn is a screenwriter and former Development Executive, represented by Independent Talent in the UK and WME in LA. She wrote ALBATROSS starring Oscar-nominee Felicity Jones and worked in the main vein of script development in the UK. No she will not read your script, Industrial Scripts do that and do it well thanking ye kindly. You can follow Tamzin on Twitter, check out her IMDb profile, read more of her scribblings on her blog and tell her where to go in the comments box above…

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