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Maybe If I Changed The Font?

Some Things I Learned Writing Every Genre Except Poetry and Panto

‘Of course I’m starting my screenplay. I’m just going to Hoover the stairs first.’

If you are at all interested in the nuts and bolts of story-telling and the curious workings of the entertainment industry, then this is the most informative, inspiring and funniest book on writing you will ever read, by someone who’s been nominated for every showbiz award going (and then lost them all).

Covering four decades in an ever-changing industry, John O’Farrell shares his writing journey from unsolicited radio sketches to huge Broadway musicals, crafting stories that have made people laugh, cry or sneak out to the pub in the interval. Here he reveals the inside secrets of every genre from sketches to sitcoms, novels to screenplays – as John kept swapping industries just before they noticed the missing Post-It Notes.

Maybe If I Changed The Font? is packed with invaluable advice on structure, character, theme as well as guidance on how to get your work read by professionals and produced to great acclaim from millions - or maybe just several members of your family – you never know which way it’s going to go. But you must read this book before you start - it’s the perfect avoidance.

‘The most honest book about writing I have ever read’ William Shakespeare

About John O'Farrell

John O'Farrell's first book Things Can Only Get Better about his years spent helping the Labour Party lose elections at every level was a number one best-seller. Two decades later he published the sequel Things Can Only Get Worse. In between his two comic memoirs, he published five novels, including The Best A Man Can Get, May Contain Nuts and The Man Who Forgot His Wife; two funny history books (An Utterly Impartial History of Britain and its sequel) plus three collections of his satirical columns from The Guardian.

His books have been translated into over thirty languages and adapted for TV and radio. Formerly a comedy scriptwriter for shows such as Spitting Image and Have I Got News For You, he more recently co-wrote the movie Chicken Run 2, the Broadway musicals Something Rotten!, Mrs Doubtfire and Just For One Day - The Story of Live Aid.
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  • Imprint: Doubleday
  • ISBN: 9780857529947
  • Length: 320 pages
  • Price: £20.00
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