Rob Parnell's Writing Academy Blog

Welcome to this week's newsletter. I hope everything's good for you - and that you're not making too many compromises in your life!  See the article below for more.   Get my latest novel from Kindle!   Murder, mystery, love, loyalty and two friends with awesome psychic powers!  Click HERE - Now! Currently I'm running a wonderful masterclass on plotting stories. Click on the picture below for more info! THIS WEEK'S ARTICLE: What Do You Believe? Rob Parnell It occurs to me that life is really about a series of compromises.   Personal, professional and public.   As children, our parents teach us that we can't always get our own way.  Because when we're adult we find out - often the hard way - that our will must bend to societal pressure, peer pressure - the will of our employers, friends and family - and the law. In a sense our lives are one long exercise in conformity to a system we

Dear Fellow Writer, Welcome to this week's newsletter.  Three weeks left till we start shooting First Cut . Getting all the last minute preparations done. Looking like it's going to be great! If you want to be involved - and instantly become a movie producer, go here.   Get my latest novel from Kindle!   Murder, mystery, love, loyalty and two friends with awesome psychic powers!  Click HERE - Now! Currently I'm running a masterclass on plotting stories. Click on the picture below for more information. THIS WEEK'S ARTICLE: Is there something wrong with you? Rob Parnell An article I read this week suggested that writers are somehow more prone to mental illness than 'normal people'. Suicide rates, bipolar disorders, substance abuse and incidents of clinical depression are all apparently higher in creative types - and this is based on a Swedish scientific survey of over a million people! Scary stu

Welcome to this week's newsletter. I hope you're well and happy. If you're not a rich writer yet, see below for guidance. If you want to instantly become a movie producer, go here. Get my latest novel from Kindle!   Murder, mystery, love, loyalty and two friends with awesome psychic powers!  Click HERE - Now! This week I've started a new writing course on plotting stories. Click on the picture below for more - get it while it's cheap! Click on the image below to write like Shakespeare! THIS WEEK'S ARTICLE: How To Make Money FAST From Your Writing! Rob Parnell (Warning: this article contains tough love!) Many people email and ask what they can do NOW, this minute, to make money from their writing.  It must be something to do with the age we live in - to expect that we can just make money appear in a flash is something we know is impossible but still we hang on desperately to the idea - especially wh

As you've probably noticed, I've been moving into film and the visual media a lot more over the last year or so. This is because, from a writer's perspective, film has it all. Film starts with writing - nothing can happen without a script -  and is film about story telling. Even non fiction on film is about being able to string together coherent images that tell a story - the director's version of the truth - to the viewer. That and the fact that I love the editing process and recording my own music has meant that I find making videos and short films very satisfying indeed. In this last year I (under the R&R banner) have put together five music videos, eleven Write On programs, a 60 minute documentary on the paranormal and a couple of short movies, the most recent being the horror spoof, Bearz . We are currently in pre-production of a thirty minute thriller called First CUT . Now, I feel, is the time to announce to you the long term picture. Bu