Monday Musings – ETB

Back in America

#MondayMusings – Back in the USA, where every vote counts

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#MondayMusings – April Fools’ Day

#MondayMusings – April Fool’s!

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#MondayMusings – Easter Week

#MondayMusings – Every detail should support a story’s theme

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#MondayMusings – Stones and Bones

#MondayMusings – The Dawn of Humankind

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#MondayMusings – Back From South Africa

#MondayMusings – Three Continents in Just a Few Weeks

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#MondayMusings – The Winners of The Pitch South Africa

#MondayMusings – In South Africa, The Winners Are…

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#MondayMusings – Leap Year #ETBSA

#MondayMusings – Leap Year calls for a leap of faith

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#MondayMusings – Off to South Africa!

#MondayMusings – Salani kakuhle! Filmmakers in South Africa

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#MondayMusings – Valentine’s Day

#MondayMusings – Valentine’s 2018 falls to Ashes

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#MondayMusings – Take Time for Friends

#MondayMusings – Pick up the Phone!

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#MondayMusings – Learning French to Lose Weight

#MondayMusings – Learning French to Lose Weight

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#MondayMusings – Let Your Writing Marinate

#MondayMusings – Letting scripts marinate and simmer

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#MondayMusings – 2017 Review

#MondayMusings – My review of the year

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New Year’s in Paris

#MondayMusings – Bonne Année!

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#MondayMusings – Merry Christmas to All!

#MondayMusings – Merry Christmas from ETB Screenwriting!

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#MondayMusings – The War on Christmas

#MondayMusings – Christmas Isn’t Under Threat To Anyone But The Privileged

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#MondayMusings – Calling out Condescension

#MondayMusings – Everyone needs to call out condescension

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#MondayMusings – Who vs What

#MondayMusings – Why archetypes don’t matter.

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#MondayMusings – Thanksgiving In Vienna

#MondayMusings – My holiday snaps

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#MondayMusings – Saying Thank You to My Socks

#MondayMusings – Saying Thank You to My Socks

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#MondayMusings – Getting out of my Head

#MondayMusings – I Love Pottery

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#MondayMusings – All Saints’ Day

#MondayMusings – Who is in your pantheon of writing “saints”?

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Winter or Spring?

#MondayMusings – Winter is Coming? Or Not?

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#MondayMusings – My Secret Weapon

#MondayMusings – My muse and secret weapon

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#MondayMusings – Name Change Controversy

#MondayMusings – High-tech and History in Bristol

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#MondayMusings – Scandi Noir & Casting

#MondayMusings – Scandi Noir and Casting : No “Hollywood Teeth

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#MondayMusings – Awesome Oslo

#MondayMusings – Awesome Oslo always delights

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How Do You Eat an Elephant?

#MondayMusings – The value of incremental progress

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You Okay?

#MondayMusings – A matter of survival

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I Love Bank Holidays

#MondayMusings – There’s nothing like a Bank Holiday to make life more joyful

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Alternative Workspaces

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#MondayMusings – I am often happiest writing outside my office

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Amsterdam and Jeanne Moreau

#MondayMusings – Jeanne Moreau will be missed

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Packing for Business Travel

#MondayMusings – Top Tips for business travel

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Vision Boards

Vision Boards

#MondayMusings – Vision boards are excellent for motivation

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Coincidence? Or Not?

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#MondayMusings – Meaningful random happenings or just random?

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Packing for Bristol

Ottolenghi

#MondayMusings – Meet my Secret Weapon

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In Italy with RAI Television

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#MondayMusings – What the main character wants is a clear and simple ego-driven goal.

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Celebrate the Small Victories!

Small Victories

#MondayMusings – Too often we are so focused on where we are going, we forget how far we’ve come.

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Luck to Start the New Year

#MondayMusings – How to be luckier in the New Year

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Nordkapp Film Festival

#MondayMusings – Time to become a travelogue for a while!

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What Your Comments Mean

#MondayMusings – If you want to make a writer’s heart soar today, engage with their post.

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Day One at eQuinoxe

#MondayMusings – The workshop advisors all arrived today.

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Arrival in Munich

#MondayMusings – Arrival bliss at Schloss Elmau for eQuinoxe Germany

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What You Need to Know Before New Year’s Eve

#MondayMusings – Willpower, like a bicep, can only exert itself so long before it gives out.

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Thousands of Historic Books Online

#MondayMusings – The Library of Congress released a treasure trove of content

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Creating a New Character: Backstory

#MondayMusings – What is your character’s backstory?

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Revolutionary or Rebel

#MondayMusings – Rebels are opportunistic, but Revolutionaries strive for change

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Put It All Online

#MondayMusings – Internet Television needs to evolve

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