BBC Scriptwriting Workshop

BBC writers room workshop tomorrow. Hurray! I'm a little nervous. I don't have much scriptwriting experience, and have no idea what to expect. What if they make you write a play on the spot, and then shoot those whose work is weakest?

Just in case that is what Paul Ashton has in mind I've spent the day turning some surplus scenes from Infinite Sky into a play. The scenes were unuseable because they were from Sam's point of view (Iris's older brother) The novel has a single point of view: Iris's. I remember how easy it was to write them, and how hard I tried to force them in as Sam's dialogue to Iris. I was sad to have to cut them, but Sam just isn't that talkative. Certainly not to his eager little sister.

The play is called Stags, and it's not yet very long, but I'm enjoying it. (I wanted to call the novel Stags, but the publisher thought the connotations of men gallivanting around Prague or Amsterdam was too strong. What do you think? Shall I keep it for the play or think of something better? The play is about angry teenage boys.)

Anyway, I hope this extra scriptwriting practise will stop me from being killed tomorrow should it come to that.