Luke Bartlett
@lukeybartlett.bsky.social
Screenwriter ✍️ I will teach you to write better screenplays 🎬 Penchant for horror 🧟♂️ Former Script Reader🧑💻 Script Factory and BBC alum.
London, UK
London, UK
3. DISTRACT WITH DETAIL (from Bernie Clifton’s Dressing Room)
Tommy: “It’s not funny, it’s too generic. First rule of comedy. You never say biscuit, you say Garibaldi.”
Did I miss any?
Tommy: “It’s not funny, it’s too generic. First rule of comedy. You never say biscuit, you say Garibaldi.”
Did I miss any?
February 6, 2025 at 9:13 AM
3. DISTRACT WITH DETAIL (from Bernie Clifton’s Dressing Room)
Tommy: “It’s not funny, it’s too generic. First rule of comedy. You never say biscuit, you say Garibaldi.”
Did I miss any?
Tommy: “It’s not funny, it’s too generic. First rule of comedy. You never say biscuit, you say Garibaldi.”
Did I miss any?
2. A GOOD TWIST IS HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT (from Riddle Of The Sphinx)
Squires: “The sentence has a surface reading, which makes perfect sense in an of itself, but when you break it down to its component parts it reveals a whole new meaning, hidden in plain sight, as it were.”
Squires: “The sentence has a surface reading, which makes perfect sense in an of itself, but when you break it down to its component parts it reveals a whole new meaning, hidden in plain sight, as it were.”
February 6, 2025 at 9:13 AM
2. A GOOD TWIST IS HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT (from Riddle Of The Sphinx)
Squires: “The sentence has a surface reading, which makes perfect sense in an of itself, but when you break it down to its component parts it reveals a whole new meaning, hidden in plain sight, as it were.”
Squires: “The sentence has a surface reading, which makes perfect sense in an of itself, but when you break it down to its component parts it reveals a whole new meaning, hidden in plain sight, as it were.”
3 Screenwriting Lessons Buried ‘Inside No9’ For Killer Twists
1. A GOOD ENDING MUST BE SEEDED (from Sardines)
Mark: "Why didn’t you just do the lie about the babysitter getting ill?"
Elizabeth: “Because that needs to be seeded. You need to seed it.”
1. A GOOD ENDING MUST BE SEEDED (from Sardines)
Mark: "Why didn’t you just do the lie about the babysitter getting ill?"
Elizabeth: “Because that needs to be seeded. You need to seed it.”
February 6, 2025 at 9:13 AM
3 Screenwriting Lessons Buried ‘Inside No9’ For Killer Twists
1. A GOOD ENDING MUST BE SEEDED (from Sardines)
Mark: "Why didn’t you just do the lie about the babysitter getting ill?"
Elizabeth: “Because that needs to be seeded. You need to seed it.”
1. A GOOD ENDING MUST BE SEEDED (from Sardines)
Mark: "Why didn’t you just do the lie about the babysitter getting ill?"
Elizabeth: “Because that needs to be seeded. You need to seed it.”
Few things will encourage writers as much as Charles Dickens’ notes for Hard Times.
Notice -
1. Brainstorming titles (including some real stinkers like ‘Prove it!’)
2. Working out the total notebook pages required for each serial publication
3. Story beats (chapters 3-8)
4. Shortlisting scenes
Notice -
1. Brainstorming titles (including some real stinkers like ‘Prove it!’)
2. Working out the total notebook pages required for each serial publication
3. Story beats (chapters 3-8)
4. Shortlisting scenes
January 29, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Few things will encourage writers as much as Charles Dickens’ notes for Hard Times.
Notice -
1. Brainstorming titles (including some real stinkers like ‘Prove it!’)
2. Working out the total notebook pages required for each serial publication
3. Story beats (chapters 3-8)
4. Shortlisting scenes
Notice -
1. Brainstorming titles (including some real stinkers like ‘Prove it!’)
2. Working out the total notebook pages required for each serial publication
3. Story beats (chapters 3-8)
4. Shortlisting scenes
What does it mean to be ‘Lynchian’?
The answer, according to David Foster Wallace…
“Lynchian refers to a particular kind of irony where the very macabre and the very mundane combine in such a way as to reveal the former's perpetual containment within the latter."
For example...
The answer, according to David Foster Wallace…
“Lynchian refers to a particular kind of irony where the very macabre and the very mundane combine in such a way as to reveal the former's perpetual containment within the latter."
For example...
January 27, 2025 at 9:03 AM
What does it mean to be ‘Lynchian’?
The answer, according to David Foster Wallace…
“Lynchian refers to a particular kind of irony where the very macabre and the very mundane combine in such a way as to reveal the former's perpetual containment within the latter."
For example...
The answer, according to David Foster Wallace…
“Lynchian refers to a particular kind of irony where the very macabre and the very mundane combine in such a way as to reveal the former's perpetual containment within the latter."
For example...