J B Priestley wrote An Inspector Calls in ten days. "All plays should be written in a burst of explosive energy." Noel Coward wrote Private Lives in four days. Neil Simon wrote Come Blow Your Horn in three weeks. At 39,000 words, Hamlet could have been written in four and a half hours.
My play, A Bench in the Park was showcased in London by Rocliffe Productions and recorded for hospital radios by Hosiprog Productions. CDs are available from them or from The Audio Network
I did my MA in script writing at the University of Salford and I've led several script writing workshops for schools and writers' circles.
I've tutored on The Writers' News script writing correspondence course for ten years and I appraise scripts for Keyword clients.
I also tutor for the new scriptwriting course - Narrative and Dialogue - with the Open College of the Arts. This is a core requirement for their BA Hons in Creative Writing and an introduction to narrative and dialogue. It focuses on scriptwriting as a vehicle to help students learn to write in any form requiring plot, structure, dialogue and character and that can 'tell a story'.
My work has been shortlisted for the Paines Plough Ticket to Write theatre tour and workshopped at Bolton Octagon Theatre and by the BBC Women's Comedy Writing Group.
I am currently working on a screenplay about a tragic Viennese family in the 1930s.
For enquiries about script writing, please email diane@keywordeditorial.com