Tag: Writing

Improv Your Writing: Audio Drama Edition

August 6, 2023 / Jack / 0 Comments

Saturday, August 19, 2023, 1:00 to 2:30 pm EST / Online / $15 CAD In support of MAD-Con Toronto 2024 Up your audio fiction writing game! Using fun improv games (don’t worry, no improv experience is required) we’ll show you how to: • Give your characters character • Make your dialogue sing by ditching obvious exposition and focusing on emotion • Find out “What’s next?” in your story • Generate ideas fast • Challenge your Inner Critic and have fun writing Limited to 15 participants to ensure everyone gets time to participate. Fees from this workshop go directly towards funding MAD-Con Toronto 2024, a modern audio drama conference with performances, workshops, and meet-ups, bringing together audio fiction creators, writers, producers, performers, and audiences. Register here: https://improvyourwriting.com/upcoming

Writers Write!

September 11, 2016 / Jack / 0 Comments

624 RTÉ and Northern Ireland Screen are looking for writers for online dramas and comedies. Check out this link from the BBC Writing Room website.

RTÉ and Northern Ireland Screen are seeking submissions from writers and producers to develop five new, original online dramas for the new season of Storyland.

Writers from the worlds of television, film, theatre, literature, documentary and journalism are sought, whether or not they have previously written for film or TV.

And there’s more good news for writers! In a change to previous years, the writer will be at the centre of the drama. RTÉ and Northern Ireland Screen will commission five scripts and work closely with the writers and producers on their development. Once the scripts are ready for pre-production, directors will be contracted. In total, five single dramas of up to 20 minutes duration – and each with a budget of €30,000 – will be commissioned and shown both nationally and internationally on RTÉ Player.

Want to find out more? There’s an explanatory open day in Dublin on Wednesday, 21st September and another in Belfast on Thursday, 22nd September. (Further details below).

The closing point for Storyland submissions is noon on Thursday, October 13th, 2016 (Irish Standard Time).

It’s essential you establish exactly what the organisers require and you can get the necessary information plus details about how to apply at the official Storyland website.

Script Frenzy- How Do I Write Scripts?

April 10, 2011 / Jack / 0 Comments

A listener wrote in to the Huey mailbag this week asking for some tips on writing audio drama scripts and so I dug this article out that I originally wrote for the Sonic Society season 1 and reposted on my writing blog. So good luck to everyone involved in Script Frenzy this month and if you need a couple of tips, here’s something on writing Audio Cinema.

Jack’s Price…

August 9, 2010 / Jack / 0 Comments

Our very own Jack J. Ward is smiling a whole lot through the fear lately- Vincent Price style fear! We already told you that Colonial Radio Theatre is producing Audio Dramas based on the Blue Water Comics.

Well Jack is going to be working hard at his desk penning some of those Audio Drama adaptations from the comics.

And yes, he couldn’t be happier….