Writing Soap: How to Write Popular Continuing Drama
Information Points
■Authoritative - written by a very experienced radio and tv writer
■A growing market of creative writers ready to snap up this book.
■Huge market- there are many thousands of novice creative writers in the UK alone
Writers Guides- An Aber-Publishing Series
Who else wants to write for the ‘soaps’?
‘Soaps’ like Eastenders, Coronation Street, Emmerdale, Casualty, Holby City, and of course the ever-popular Archers on BBC Radio 4 all need new storylines to keep them fresh and that means new writers. It really could be your lines being uttered by an actor in a scene on tv or radio.
This book explains how:
- continuing drama is made and the role of the script writer
- to write for established characters in a ‘soap’
- to develop your writing style so that it becomes compelling writing
Market
All students of creative writing in colleges and universities
College and university central and department libraries
Teachers, tutors and lecturers
Public and reference libraries
General readers, older creative writers who attend Caerleon, Swanick et al
SUBJECT AREA
Creative writing
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