To Screenwrite Right, Write What You Know

Write What You Know or Just Say No! (and other rhymes) I’m going to give you procrastinating scribblers a little bit of advice today. Yes me, who gets up at the crack of 10.30 in the AM and eats really really really old Chinese food from the back of the fridge to get thin. That statement may not make me sound like Old Methuselah but I have learnt something from my mistakes (if you don’t count the fact that I simply

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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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