{"id":974,"date":"2011-09-14T09:18:40","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T09:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/?p=974"},"modified":"2011-09-14T09:18:40","modified_gmt":"2011-09-14T09:18:40","slug":"william-nicholson-serious-screenwriting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/09\/14\/william-nicholson-serious-screenwriting\/","title":{"rendered":"William Nicholson &#8211; Serious Screenwriting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night at BAFTA, William Nicholson gave a talk.\u00a0 Unfortunately, I wasn&#8217;t there, but there is a summary of tweets about it <a href=\"http:\/\/storify.com\/bafta\/serious-screenwriting?awesm=sfy.co_Gy2&amp;utm_campaign=bafta&amp;utm_medium=sfy.co-twitter&amp;utm_source=direct-sfy.co&amp;utm_content=storify-pingback\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Although it sounds like an excellent and useful talk in its own right, almost all of the tweet comments can be applied to gamewriting.\u00a0 So, &#8220;if you possibly can, be a writer\/director, that way you retain the power&#8221; can become, &#8220;if you possibly can, be a writer\/<strong>designer<\/strong>, that way you retain the power&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well worth a read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night at BAFTA, William Nicholson gave a talk.\u00a0 Unfortunately, I wasn&#8217;t there, but there is a summary of tweets about it here. Although it sounds like an excellent and useful talk in its own right, almost all of the tweet comments can be applied to gamewriting.\u00a0 So, &#8220;if you possibly can, be a writer\/director, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/09\/14\/william-nicholson-serious-screenwriting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;William Nicholson &#8211; Serious Screenwriting&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,3],"tags":[122,121,277,256],"class_list":["post-974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-writing","category-writing","tag-bafta","tag-gamewriting","tag-screenwriting","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":975,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions\/975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}