The full archive of Rosie Claverton’s blog posts.
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2017
- Mental Health on TV: 2017 Highlights
- Join me at Sefton Libraries to talk mental health!
- Upcoming events with Crime Cymru
- Goodreads Giveaway for Terror 404
- New website!
- #authorsforgrenfell – last day of auction!
- NEWS: Terror 404 release
- Previously on The Amy Lane Mysteries…
- Terror 404 – Sneak Peek!
- Freudian Script Fortnight 25/04/17
- COVER REVEAL: Terror 404
- Freudian Script Fortnight 10/04/17
- New publication date for Terror 404
- Freudian Script Fortnight 27/03/17
- Freudian Script Fortnight: Mental Health In The News
- Freudian Script: Narcissistic Personality Disorder
2016
- The Anti-Stigma Thesaurus: Rewriting the Language of Mental Health
- REVIEW: Pulling the trigger by Adam Shaw and Lauren Callaghan
- Terror 404 release date
- Captcha Thief Blog Tour
- INTERVIEW: Sara Barnard on Mental Health in YA and Beautiful Broken Things
- Captcha Thief: The Comic
- Freudian Script: Work-Life Balance
- Captcha Thief Release Day!
- Captcha Thief: exclusive first look!
- Junior Doctors: Their Lives in Your Hands
- Captcha Thief Publication Delayed
- Hello 2016
2015
- One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest v Modern Psychiatry
- Car Hacker – available on Smashwords for FREE!
- REVIEW: The Other Side of Silence – Linda Gask
- Captcha Thief Cover Reveal
- #WriteInclusively – We Can All Do Better
- 5 Mental Health Truths from Inside Out
- Crime Scene Books takes on The Amy Lane Mysteries
- Do Writers Have a Duty to Accuracy?
- Where is Amy Lane? Updates on #3
- On Strange and Norrell and Madness
- Questions From My Editor
- Binary Witness: One Year On
- INTERVIEW: Ruth F Hunt on Mental Health, Disability and The Single Feather
- Amy Lane #3: Captcha Thief
- Rosie Claverton at CrimeFest 2015
- #KillerFest15 – Mental Health and Crime
- Car Hacker – out today!
- Freudian Script: Cannabis and Psychosis
- Binary Witness on WHSmith’s Movies Most Wanted
- The Art of Waiting
- Freudian Script: How Common Are Mental Health Problems?
- Not Accepted Anywhere? Authenticity and Diversity in Writing
- Goodbye 2014, Hello 2015
2014
- When Sidekicks Take Centre Stage
- Read What You Don’t Know
- Amy Lane #2.5 – Car Hacker
- Rosie Claverton: CRA Featured Author
- NaNoWriMo and Beyond
- Writers’ Tools: Scene-by-Scene
- Freudian Script: Emotionally unstable personality disorder (EUPD)
- NaNoWriMo: A Survival Guide
- 5 Biggest Mistakes When Writing Mental Illness
- Update: Amy Lane Book #3
- Jason and Amy’s Map of Cardiff
- “Amy’s Angst” – Code Runner playlist
- Binary Witness: The Caffeinated Drinking Game
- Code Runner launch
- Code Runner launch celebrations!
- Amy Lane’s Guide to Password Security
- Freudian Script: Gangs and Drugs
- Jason Carr’s Guide to Surviving On The Run
- Code Runner Book Trailer: The Making-Of
- Code Runner book trailer!
- Freudian Script: Bipolar Affective Disorder
- Writers’ Block: Keep The Car Running
- Myths about Depression and Suicide
- Freudian Script: Psychiatrist v Therapist
- Code Runner – read the first three chapters!
- Writers’ Tools: Expert Opinions
- Sticks and Stones: Mental Health Stigma and Crime Fiction
- Code Runner – teaser trailer!
- Are My Book Sales Good? Data for Novelists
- Freudian Script: Inside a Psychiatric Ward
- Read All About It! The Amy Lane Mysteries Newsletter
- Writing Battles: Making Death Personal
- INTERVIEW: Lucy V Hay on Teen Mental Health and Jasmine’s Story
- Crime Cymraeg: A Tour of Welsh Crime Fiction
- Book 2: Code Runner
- Freudian Script: Police and Crime
- COVER REVEAL: Code Runner by Rosie Claverton
- Would I Follow Me? Twitter Tips for Writers
- Freudian Script: The Mental Health Act
- CrimeFest 2014: Must-Have Books
- Binary Witness Giveaway Winners!
- Binary Witness Blog Tour Complete!
- Binary Witness Excerpt #12 – Cathays Bridge
- Binary Witness Excerpt #11 – Behind Cardiff Central
- Binary Witness Excerpt #10 – St Mary’s Street
- Binary Witness Excerpt #9: The Blue Door
- Binary Witness Excerpt #8: Tyndall Street
- Binary Witness Excerpt #7: Millennium Stadium
- Binary Witness Blog Tour: Stops so far!
- Binary Witness Excerpt #6: Aneurin Bevan
- Binary Witness Excerpt #5: Cardiff Central
- Binary Witness Photo #4: Catherine Street
- Binary Witness Photo #3: River Taff
- Binary Witness Photo #2: Brains bridge
- Binary Witness Photo #1: Bute Street
- Binary Witness Blog Tour and Giveaway!
- Binary Witness Blog Tour and Giveaway!
- Binary Witness: Chapter One Reading
- INTERVIEW: Tom Riley talks Leonardo da Vinci with ASD
- Freudian Script: Agoraphobia
- 10 Writing Career Lessons from Disney’s Frozen
- A Work of Art – short film
- Freudian Script: Stalking, Erotomania and Othello Syndrome
- Writers’ Tools: Plot Hog
- Location, Location, Location: Choosing Settings for Fiction
- The Writing Blog Tour
- Freudian Script: Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD)
- Dynamic Duos: The Crime Fighting Partners Formula
- Freudian Script: The Psychopath
- Rejection is Encouragement: Agent Hunting Improved My Writing
- INTERVIEW: Lucy V Hay on The Decision: Lizzie’s Story
- COVER REVEAL: Binary Witness by Rosie Claverton
- Freudian Script: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- First article for The Amy Lane Mysteries!
- Writing Fanfiction: A Training Ground
- Freudian Script: Depression
- Writers’ Tools: Story Forge
- Freudian Script: Psychosis
- Time For My Close Up: My First Photoshoot!
- I Have Nothing: Why “The Bodyguard” Musical Needs More Plot and Fewer Songs
2013
- 2013 in review
- GUEST POST: Second Thoughts: Writing The Next Novel In A Series by Lucy V Hay
- Writers’ Tools: How Google Maps Can Enhance Your Narrative
- NaNoWriMo 2013: Achievement Unlocked!
- Retitling: A Book by Any Other Name Would Sell as Sweet?
- From Twitter pitch to two-book deal: How I became a Carina Press author
- NaNoWriMo 2013
- Getting Back On The Horse
- Ada Lovelace Day: Rosalind Franklin
- An Explanation
- Freudian Script: 4 Extremely Neurotic Character Reactions
- Freudian Script: 4 Ways to Show Your Characters Need to Grow
- Freudian Script: 5 Mature Defence Mechanisms of Well-Adjusted Characters
- Freudian Script: Psychology for Writers – new blog series!
- #scriptchat Multi-Platform transcript
- #scriptchat 30th June – Multi-Platform Writing
- The Writer’s ADHD
- 100% More Swords
- BOOK REVIEW: Rule Zero by Laurence Timms
- Writers’ Tools: Tactile Spreadsheet
- Kites and Violence: my head in the wood-chipper
- Things I’ve Been Doing Instead of Updating My Blog
- On Talking: Novels vs Screenplays vs Plays
- 10 Things About Les Miserables
2012
- 2012 in review
- “DRAGON CHASERS” / “BRYN CELLI DDU” – From Script to Screen
- Writing is 90% Thinking
- Upheaval, or Why I Haven’t Been Around Much
- 50 Kisses: Quaking and Breaking Hearts in 2 Minutes
- The Dying Art of the Storyteller
- Just Who Is This Protagonist Guy And Why Do I Care?
- Writers’ Rights
- Small Chances – Not Just Poker
- May: Persona, Small Chances and It’s My Shout
- Megan’s PERSONA
- Review: The Cabin in the Woods
- Going Pro
- One Man’s Ceiling
- Shoulder tension and frown lines
- Read It. Like It. Note It.
- Take note
- My First Short Film: Change The World
- My Persona
- Glimpses of The Underwater Realm – part two
2011
- 2011: My year with writing
- 2011 Top Eleven
- Glimpses of The Underwater Realm – part one
- The Underwater Realm – Kickstarter
- NaNoWriMo 2011: Wordy
- Cite Me
- The Importance of Relaxation to the Writer
- NaNoWriMo Owns Me
- Why the London Screenwriters Festival is necessary for London and Screenwriters
- Pitching In Sixty Seconds (without bunnies)
- Writers write
- The Writer on Holiday
- A criminal mind
- A Whole New World
- Apes Rising – action trailer vs character trailer
- Writers’ Tools: Wikis
- Lord of the Rings: to extend or not to extend?
- Sherlock: Pilot’s Progress
- The Inaugural Realm Pictures Script Retreat
- Writers’ Tools: The Mind Map
- Where was I?
- Darling Goals of May
- Meetings, deadlines and meeting deadline
- Absentee Author
- Why flatmates are disastrous and necessary to writing
- 20 Things From LCWF
- LCWF packing
- Pitching with Brits
- LCWF Countdown
- No longer a Laughing Stock
- Script Frenzy 2011
- And what if…?
- Waiting for Go
- Plays and players
- Scriptses, precious
- Comfest Comedy
- An octopus in a pie factory
- Laughing Stock Update!
- One to one-hundred-and-ten pages
- Make ’em laugh
- A million different doors
- Sucking, sex and (laughing) stock
- Power to the Procrastinators
- Top 5 Fictional Swords
- Be My Valentine, Persona
- Houdini-Holmes Psychic Mystery
- The Road To Hard Work
- Perfect Profiling
- Sherlock: A Study in Pilots
- Plot on the go
- The slow steps of a journey
- Pilot signposts
- Chaos theory
- National Association of Scientific Asshattery
2010
- Along the byway
- Tis the season
- Max Effort, Max Reward
- Density and Comedy
- Sotto voce
- I Heart Persona
- Multi-tasking
- The Writer and The Director
- December Deadlines
- Prequel
- Work shy
- Not crazy – just a little unwell
- Focus shift
- Project Wilson Phillips – Team Chynna
- Synopsis v treatment
- Passive present
- RED
- Square One
- LSF missed connection
- Competition short shorts
- Margin of error
- Dialogue is drama?
- How short is short?
- Starting
- Hop across the Pond
- Dream a little dream
- Steven Moffat talks “Sherlock”
- The summer love affair
- The sweet stench of rejection
- Sherlock Secrets
- Sounds like carnage
- TARDIS – an exercise in geekery
- Red Planet Panic
- It all started when…
- The Expendables: Inexplicable
- Mistaking busyness for productivity
- A question of perspective
- Lens blur
- Everything old is new again
- Too many fireworks
- Role models
- What’s the hook?
- The buzz of live theatre
- The Dark Art of Attachments
- Equal opportunity writing
- The Read-Through
- This is your dialogue on drugs
- Outlining the outline
- NOW ASYLUM IF YOU’RE GAY
- Come to me, pages
- Patchwork Post
- For want of structure
- Good advice comes in threes
- Space Exploitation
- Space Precinct 2040
- Planning =/= Procrastination?
- Which classic author are you?
- Writers cannot shut up
- The television forecast
- Gender-blind casting
- One True Love: TV
- A cacophony of projects
- Papers all over the floor
- Every author loves feedback
- Spit and polish
- The Space Between
- My kingdom for a closing line!
- Just a few lines more
- Page 100
- The Grind
- The End
- One really should think things through
- A Premiere and a Pitch
- The Midpoint
- The Power of the Internet
- Pause?
- The Construction of a Thought
- End Act One
- These Things Take Time – And Sometimes They Don’t
- Excuses – and what’s next
- Oops?
2009