Just finished reading "The writer's tale"
It is basically a years worth of e-mails and texts between journalist Benjamin Cook and writer Russell T Davies over the writing of Season 4 of Doctor Who.
Cook queries Davies on the hows and whys of writing while Davies tries to answer in between completing scripts for the show. There are draft scripts for the "Voyage of the Damned", "Partners in Crime" and the two episode finale and a lot of self pity from Davies about how he doesn't have time to write.
Its a fascinating book on the creative process and I thouroughlly recommend it
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Must read. A colleague of mine was putting researching an ethnography of writing and asked my to keep a writer's diary which is similar, I think. But, I really didn't really want to delve too deeply into the awful lows an sometime highs of trying to write a chapter against the clock.
ReplyDeleteit also helps to have the fourth series on dvd so you can see the transistion from script to screen.
ReplyDeletebasically davies works it all out in his gead until it gets close to the deadline and then spends several days just typing and revising