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Five Screenwriting Rules You Can Break and Five You Can’t

Even the notion of screenwriting rules gets some people into a serious tizz, and it’s this controversial topic I want to explore this week. I’ve spent the last three weeks watching my new film Kajaki (out on Friday in the UK at all Vue Cinemas) over and over again, either with the creative team or in front of preview audiences. It’s an unusual movie in many ways and so I’ve compiled a list of the screenwriting rules we break –

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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…