Synopses & Reviews
How To Write Everything is the ultimate writers handbook. It tells you about every aspect of writing, from having an idea to getting the idea out into the world and getting paid for it, too. It covers everything from journalism to screen-writing, from speeches to sketches, from sitcoms to novels. With thirty years' experience as an award-winning script-writer, journalist, author and broadcaster David Quantick is ideally suited, as a writer, to write this definitive writer's guide to writing... everything.
Synopsis
The ultimate writer's handbook, from the award-winning writer of Veep and numerous other shows.
About the Author
David Quantick really has written everything. As a television writer, he has written for
The Thick Of It,
The Day Today,
Brass Eye,
TV Burp and many other shows. He is also an award-winning writer on HBO's
Veep and wrote the critically-praised
Sky Arts Playhouse, Snodgrass. As a radio writer, he created Radio 4's
One and Radio 2's
The Blagger's Guide. His novel
Sparks was described as "excellent" by Neil Gaiman and his graphic series
Louis Wain (created with Savage Pencil) was published in Alan Moore's Dodgem Logic. As well as a series of music books and the official biography of Eddie Izzard, David wrote the
Sunday Times best-seller
Grumpy Old Men and has written for over 50 magazines and newspapers, from
The Guardian and
The Daily Telegraph to
NME and
Q. With Jane Bussmann, he created the world's first internet sitcom,
The Junkies, and he is also the writer of several short films, including the highly-acclaimed
Lot 13.
How To Write Everything is his first book about writing.