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John Edwards, one of Australia’s most successful and prolific TV producers, will join Roadshow Films, Australia’s pre-eminent entertainment group, to form Roadshow Rough Diamond, along with his son, former ITV Studios and Endemol executive, Dan Edwards. The new production company will create original long-form television and feature film content for domestic and international audiences from July 1, 2016.

With a primary focus on quality drama, John Edwards will launch with an impressive slate of productions already in development – including event mini-series, long-form drama series, feature films, docudramas and documentaries.

Edwards has been responsible for the creation of such distinguished series as Gallipoli, Offspring, Puberty Blues, Tangle, Rush, Love My Way, The Secret Life Of Us and Police Rescue; and mini-series including The Beautiful Lie, Beaconsfield, Howzat: Kerry Packer’s War and Paper Giants: The Birth Of Cleo.

The mission of ROADSHOW ROUGH DIAMOND is to take the finest Australian…

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There is an air of melancholy ,
blue skied and dawdling;
holding my thoughts for ransom
in a room full of adjectives and metaphors,

but, no coffee to speak of.

I looked at Pablo
and he looked back at me
and I knew it would be sighs
until breakfast

gathering flowers
and planting seeds of innuendo
under blushing cherry trees.

IL

A sunrise is like whispers
through my curtains
as I watch my lover sleep,
weeping at my fortune to have such a man;
second chances on a brand new April day.
This cardinal, tapping on the window
as if to say “do not waste the morning.”

Spring makes me think of Emily
and daffodils.

111.

This has been one of those days
when you sit on the front porch swing
(the one we were supposed to grow old on, )
asking yourself what you’ve done,
or haven’t.

Elizabeth…

When you’re hot you’re hot.

Sportsmen talk about being, ‘In the Zone’. A space and time where the reflexes are sharp and the mind is calm and concentrated.

A space and time where everything seems to happen in blissful slow motion as they focus absolutely on the task at hand.

All the endless hours spent training and acquiring expertise are now rewarded in winning performances where no thought is given to technique because it has been completely absorbed into their being.

They see what they have to do and do it oblivious of any distraction using the minimum effort necessary.

And, when you’re in the Zone you can accomplish extraordinary things. You can set records and ascend to the status of a legend.

Think of Joe DiMaggio’s scarcely believable 56 game hitting streak for the New York Yankees which began on May 15 and ran through to July 17 of…

Why, when things have changed so much in the publishing industries, listen to someone who started writing 30 years ago whose book is being launched by someone else who started writing 30 years ago? Because JB has lived, like any thinking writer, with the fear of obsolescence, marginalisation, bypass and oblivion for all that time, developed far more smart ideas than most about how to turn words into dollars, and no one’s stopped him yet.

Some ideas from 30 years ago are still great, and they’re in here. Some great ideas only came into existence while John was going through the page proofs, and they’re in here too. He’s a lot more agile than he might appear at the moment, sitting comfortably on his chair down the front her. This is a writer who has found ways to thrive in two centuries, very ready to tell you how to survive…

It wasn’t the rejection letters that made me think it over, not really. I was expecting them. Honestly, I think it was the fact of my so definitely expecting them that made me really think it over, like I didn’t have a chance in hell.

It’s because my query letter sucks, I thought. I just need to rewrite my query.

And then I thought,No. It’s something else. It’s not ready.But what could be wrong with it? I have combed over it near to 1,000 times! I’ve checked on every comma, every lineofdialogue; what else could be wrong? What’s missing?

That was the key to the puzzle, “What’s missing,” because the answer to that question is, “a lot apparently.”

One of my favorite writing gurus is Roy Peter Clark. He’s written a bunch of books aboutwriting, most of which I own. I was reading Help! for Writers

Does your book start at the most interesting point in your character’s life? It should. 

The number one problem I see with sample material, and even client material sometimes, is that the book doesn’t start in the right place. If you are starting with the beginning of the day (waking up or eating breakfast) I don’t trust it’s starting in the right place. If you take 50 pages to introduce the conflict there is no way you’re starting in the right place.

HOW TO START YOUR NOVEL IN THE RIGHT PLACE:

1. At the end, go back and rewrite your beginning. There is no way by the end of your novel you should have the same opening when you started the draft. Characters change, plot trajectories change. You don’t know what your novel is going to fully become until it’s over. So why keep the same opening? Revise to make sure…