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Writing the TV Drama Series: How to Succeed as a Professional Writer in TV
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This guide to television dramas leads listeners step-by-step through the development and writing process, offering practical industry information and artistic inspiration.
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Pamela Douglas
As well as her love of the theatre, Pamela Douglas has always enjoyed writing and drawing. Married to the late theatrical director Wallace Douglas, after her acting career she combined a busy family life with compiling several collections of poetry, a set of children's stories, writing freelance articles for magazines and studying interior design. Since returning to her beloved West Sussex, she has run her own interior furnishing business, had several of her paintings exhibited in London galleries and continues to write in the company of her present most beautiful cat called Treacle.
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