Talent Campus is now open for submissions HERE.
I wasn’t supposed to apply for Talent Campus this year, never mind get into it!
I and my writing were nowhere near good enough I told myself.
In my mind that was just a known fact.
I’d looked at the application, and discussed it with my partner. Telling him all the reasons why I wasn’t going to apply. We couldn’t afford it; there was no way I couldn’t spare the time away from my family, my responsibilities for that long, to concentrate on me and my writing.
And yet….
Somehow, I found myself looking longingly at the application. Leaving it open on my computer and revisiting it. Thinking about how I would answer those questions, supposing, just supposing I was going to apply.
My hand reaching inexplicably towards the send button once I’d filled it all in ‘just to see’.
So, here’s the thing…
What if already, deep down inside yourself you knew what you could and should be doing to make yourself a better writer?
To further your career and improve your chances of success, if only believed in yourself, enough to try. To actually ‘push the button’ and commit.
What if there was a place where you could take time out of your everyday life to do just that?
To meet with a tribe of likeminded people to offer each other help, advice and encouragement.
To talk to people inside the industry about how commercial or not your ideas actually were and stop second guessing yourself.
Learning how to overcome your own fears and get out of your own way?
Turning you from someone who is hesitant about calling themselves a writer, to someone who is prepared to walk over broken glass and hot coals (sometimes literally!) to get their ideas made.
Talent Campus was that place for me.
So, if you find yourself next year, hesitating over whether to apply or not, trust that inner voice inside you.
Push the button…
Believe me, you won’t regret it!
Danielle Wager
www.daniellewager.wordpress.com
I am a writer, self-confessed film and TV nerd, and graduate of the prestigious MA Screenwriting course at LCC.
I was selected for the Screenwriting Goldmine Tribe writer development programme in 2019, and also for both Talent Campus at London Screenwriter’s Festival, and the Rebel Muse ‘Unsigned’ Screenwriter Showcase in 2018. Previous scripts of mine have been selected for both the Microbudget Features lab and Crime and Medical Drama Writer’s Rooms at LSF, as well as for various other initiatives. Crime Drama Writers Room with Barbara Machin.
My television and feature film scripts include, ‘The Farm’ a crime drama about cannabis farming and people trafficking in the UK which was shortlisted for the All3Media New Writing Award in 2019; ‘Dark Thoughts’ a science fiction tv pilot which came in the top 10 of the BAFTA Rocliffe TV Drama Writing Competition in 2017; ‘Marks’, a one-off tv drama which came in the top 8% of the BBC Writersroom Drama window and was then long-listed for the Bread and Roses Play-writing Award in its later stage adaptation; ‘Leverage’ a gangster/crime feature which was also chosen for the Micro-budget Features Lab at London Screenwriter’s Festival; and ‘Take Two’, a romantic comedy feature adapted from my comedy TV pilot.
My recent short film work includes: ‘Memory Man‘, a science fiction/ horror short chosen at script stage for live performance at London Screenwriters Festival, with the completed film now being shown at various science fiction and horror short film festivals.
I am also a script editor and co-writer on various independent feature scripts currently in development.
