A Storytelling Technique You Can Learn From Hit Korean Series HOMETOWN CHA CHA CHA — HOMETOWN CHA CHA CHA is a charming 16-episode Korean drama series that tells a simple love story between a city girl and a village boy. City girl worked as a dentist in Seoul. After she fell out with her boss, she quit and decided to open up a clinic in…

THE IDEA It was in the year of 2017 when Shahidah sat in front of me and began pitching ideas for her final year project. This phase of film making, the appraisal of an idea, is crucial. Before we begin the arduous task of story planning, we must first of…

How A Series About A Lesbian Poet Can Renew Your Love For Language I was a few years into my television writing career when I embarked upon the third season of a local police action-drama series Triple Nine. I had been head writer for the first two seasons and had…

Or How A Live Audience Can Improve Your Comedy Writing. — When I was in secondary school, I always looked forward to English Composition day as it was a chance for me to write stories. I remember writing a story that was an homage to a Hardy Boys tale. Homage being just a fancy word for copying the style of an…

Or The Art Of What Not To Do When You Produce A Television Series (TRAILER LINK TO THE SERIES) One reason why the life of a television writer is interesting is that every day, you are solving a different problem in production. …

Or The Art Of Writing The Longest Anthology Series (thanks to VR MAN) in Singapore Although every television genre, for example, the police procedural, medical series, and family dramas, allow for the development of a writer’s craft and imagination, none works the imagination of a writer more so than the…

MINDBLOWN That’s the word I’ve been using lately every time my film producer friend feeds me another dollop of information about this phenomenon known as NFTs. What follows below will be an account of more mindblownness as my poor web2 brain tries to comprehend its meaning. Starting with MoonBirds. I…

Or Whether A Writer Should View Life As Comedic or Dramatic Having Zero Expectations Can Be A Good Thing In my previous life as a lecturer for screenwriting, I often tell my students at the beginning of my class, that any form of writing, especially writing for the screen, demands…

The Art of Being An Asshole and Angel At The Same Time For A Writer Just when you think you have seen all the variations of every television genre, along comes a television series that makes everything new again. I remembered finishing the entire run of Breaking Bad and thinking…