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BBC Sitcom writer James Cary is all about helping you write better sitcom scripts.

Thursday, 28 February 2013

The Origins of Bluestone 42

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Plenty of things about Bluestone 42 seem unlikely. The fact it’s a comedy drama exclusively set in an active warzone is on...
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Wednesday, 27 February 2013

Jealousy and Envy are Two-Sides of the Same Bad Coin

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That title makes no sense, but you get the idea. A coincidence happened today that I thought I'd mention. As I was having a brief, unhel...
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Friday, 22 February 2013

Storylining & Plotting Part 6 – The Pitfalls of Plotting

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So, following on from Part 5 , we’re merrily plotting our sitcom episode. We have characters doing things in character that...
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Wednesday, 20 February 2013

Storylining & Plotting Part 5 – The Principle of Plotting

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One of the things that is often said of sitcoms is that you should ‘chase your character up a tree and throw sticks at them’. It’s...
Thursday, 14 February 2013

Bluestone 42

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So, it's here. And I can finally talk about it. The idea about a counter-IED unit, called Bluestone 42, in Afghanistan that Richard Hu...
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Tuesday, 5 February 2013

Storylining & Plotting Part 4 – Choosing Your Ideas

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In Part 3 , we looked at compiling a very long list of one line ideas (I say ‘we looked at’. This is a lie. ‘We’ didn’t do anything. I wrote...
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Tuesday, 29 January 2013

Storylining & Plotting Part 3 – A Day In The Life

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In Part 2 , I suggested that the best way to make story-lining fun and easy, or less like pulling teeth and easier, is to have a b...
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