Robin Taylor
Writer and Script Reader
Blog posts in total 6
Posts
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What is Comedy Drama?
The results of our most recent open submission Script Room window have just been sent out. For the first time, in this window we accepted both Drama and Comedy Drama scripts. But what is Comedy Drama? We turned to Robin Taylor from our readers team for some advice.
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The Importance of Lead Characters
As the results from our latest Comedy script submissions are sent out we asked writer (and script-reader) Robin Taylor to outline why having a clear main character in your script can help it to cut through.
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Getting Your Comedy Script Ready
Our annual submission window for Comedy scripts is open from 10am on Monday 1st April to 5pm on Monday 29th April. Writer and script-reader Robin Taylor shares some great advice if you're thinking of submitting a script this time.
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Motivation - why it's essential to a compelling script
Robin Taylor is part of our script-reading team. He explains the different types of character motivation needed as part of any compelling script and why your script will fail without them.
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Some Notes on Notes
If you are a working writer you are going to have to deal with notes. Robin Taylor is part of our script reading team and a writer himself and shares some advice on the types of notes you are likely to receive and how to work with them in a constructive way.
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Attention Writers: Studio Sitcom Needs YOU!
Is the Studio Sitcom Dead? Definitely not, but we receive surprisingly few Studio Sitcom scripts in our open submission comedy window. Why aren’t people writing for studio? Why should people write for studio? And how the heck do you write for studio?