Due to the nature of the talk, this session is only available on a face-to-face basis and not via a video link. A three and a half hour, participatory discussion exploring the differences in writing for the page as opposed to writing for the screen. Using my own novel, Ladies of the Shire, which was originally written as a screenplay, and using the group as the cast, we will compare and contrast the different disciplines required to produce a screenplay from a novel. A sometime irreverent, often amusing but highly instructive session, we will discover some of how the film business works, practise the art of 'the pitch', try to find out what it is book publishers look for in a 'best seller', deconstruct a script and probably come to the firm realisation that William Goldman had it right when he wrote, 'In Hollywood nobody knows nothin'' I supply all material for this exercise (novel read-outs and scripted pages) and, in a more serious tone, you'll need to bring along your creative head so that, hopefully, together we will come to a fuller understanding of how to take the right approach for your writing style and your story ideas.