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December 3, 2008
Writer's Interviewed on Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe
Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe had a writer's special last night. Charlie Brooker wrote the zombietastic Dead Set. On the show he interviewed Tony Jordan (Hustle, Life On Mars), Graham Linehan (The IT Crowd, Big Train (series 1)), Russell T. Davies (Doctor Who), Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain (Peep Show), Paul Abbott (Shameless) and I might have missed somebody.It was incredibly interesting, if you're a writer you really have to go and watch it, if you're not it was still entertaining. The writers often had vastly different techniques, far too much advice to summarise succinctly. However my favourite analogy was from Graham Linehan who said:
Writing is a bit like having a poo.
Indeed.