{"id":38,"date":"2011-10-19T16:24:07","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T15:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lynnsteinson.com:\/home\/?p=38"},"modified":"2013-02-06T17:12:11","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T17:12:11","slug":"face-to-face-with-stephen-butchard-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lynnsteinson.com:\/home\/review\/face-to-face-with-stephen-butchard-3","title":{"rendered":"Face to Face with Stephen Butchard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lynnsteinson.com:\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_04641.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lynnsteinson.com:\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_04641-282x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_0464\" width=\"282\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-42\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lynnsteinson.com:\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_04641-282x300.jpg 282w, https:\/\/www.lynnsteinson.com:\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_04641-965x1024.jpg 965w, https:\/\/www.lynnsteinson.com:\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_04641.jpg 1728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAward-winning screenwriter,Stephen Butchard, a former engineer now famous for &#8220;The House of Saddam&#8221;, &#8220;Stolen&#8221; and &#8220;Five Daughters&#8221;, is to the point when he gives advice to budding writers,&#8217;You just have to get on with it&#8217;. <\/p>\n<p>He didn&#8217;t research by reading scripts, he didn&#8217;t prepare extensive character breakdowns. &#8216;The only way to find your characters&#8217; voices is to write, you need to live with them,&#8217; he says, &#8216;but, you also need to have the courage to leave space,&#8217; he added, citing a scene from the Danish version of &#8220;The Killing&#8221; as an example where &#8216;nothing had to be said.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>A word of warning though, \u2018If you are writing something that you don\u2019t want write it won\u2019t be any good. Why? Because there is no passion.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>So if you want to write, just do it&#8230;and make sure you want to.<\/p>\n<p><em>Liverpool-based Stephen Butchard was in conversation with Kate Rowland, Creative Director of New Writing, BBC, at MediaCityUK.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Award-winning screenwriter,Stephen Butchard, a former engineer now famous for &#8220;The House of Saddam&#8221;, &#8220;Stolen&#8221; and &#8220;Five Daughters&#8221;, is to the point when he gives advice to budding writers,&#8217;You just have to get on with it&#8217;. He didn&#8217;t research by reading &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lynnsteinson.com:\/home\/review\/face-to-face-with-stephen-butchard-3\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,3],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-author-in-conversation","category-review","tag-stephen-butchard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnsteinson.com:\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnsteinson.com:\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnsteinson.com:\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnsteinson.com:\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnsteinson.com:\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnsteinson.com:\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":464,"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnsteinson.com:\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnsteinson.com:\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnsteinson.com:\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnsteinson.com:\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnsteinson.com:\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}