{"id":1011,"date":"2016-03-04T14:28:46","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T14:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonlinter.com\/?p=1011"},"modified":"2019-05-17T09:17:42","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T09:17:42","slug":"4-march-2016-start-write-making-headlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonlinter.com\/?p=1011","title":{"rendered":"How did you start to write Making Headlines?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-339 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/simonlinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/MHthumb.jpg\" alt=\"MHthumb\" width=\"300\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/simonlinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/MHthumb.jpg 300w, https:\/\/simonlinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/MHthumb-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>When I studied Media in the 1990s, part of the course included writing scripts for potential television shows. I liked this format so much that I started writing a script based on an idea I had. When I had finished it (in 1994), it was roughly 90 pages long, called <em>Stealth<\/em>, and in all honesty wasn&#8217;t very good. I didn&#8217;t know what to do with it so I shelved it away until 1998 when I rewrote the script and updated it. I sent it out to several film producers and got a reply from two based in the US, one of which I later met in The Groucho Club in London. This meeting did not lead to anything other than a trip to London and meeting a happy-go-lucky film producer, and this also meant that I still had a manuscript that I didn&#8217;t know what to do with. In 2013 I signed up for a course on creative writing at Folkuniversitetet in Stockholm and dredged up my script called <em>Stealth<\/em> but renamed it <em>Making Headlines<\/em>. I started to write a few chapters and other participants on the course wanted to know what happened next, which forced me into writing the first draft in novel format. After this, I then wrote draft 2 and sent it off to an editor who came back with suggestions. I then wrote draft 3, which is the final version that I released. So all in all I wrote 5 drafts of <em>Making Headlines<\/em> and it was released in 2015, 20 years after I had first attempted to write it as a film screenplay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I studied Media in the 1990s, part of the course included writing scripts for potential television shows. 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