As a female script consultant and scriptwriter I spent a good three years working as a core writer on ITV soap Emmerdale, and I was part of the team that helped the soap transition to five nights a week.

Alison Pennells is a scriptwriter, playwright, novelist and script consultant from Leeds
Alison Pennells is a scriptwriter, playwright, novelist and script consultant from Leeds
As a female script consultant and scriptwriter I spent a good three years working as a core writer on ITV soap Emmerdale, and I was part of the team that helped the soap transition to five nights a week.
Over the last three years I’ve been involved with writer / director Matthew Cooper and producer James R. Winterbottom who have put together three ultra low budget horror films based on the work of H.P. Lovecraft.
As a female script consultant and scriptwriter I spent three years on the core writing team of UK soap Emmerdale – I worked as a storyliner initially and then moved onto the writing team proper about a year later. I wrote around 25 actual broadcast episodes over a three year period.
A lot of female script consultant’s only work on TV or film scripts. One of the things that sets me apart is that I can give feedback on theatre plays – and even musical theatre scripts.
One female scriptwriter, broke into the Hollywood boys club, at the time when the Movie Brats – Coppola, Scorsese, Lucas and Spielberg were at their most powerful – and she wrote many of the boys’ own great movies.
As a female script consultant and female script writer for hire I get hired a lot by producers and production companies to write gender specific scripts from a female perspective.
As a female script consultant, I get asked a lot how much TV scriptwriters get paid. It’s an honest enough question and worth asking if you’re looking at a career as a scriptwriter.
As a female script consultant, my career in film and TV followed a route map which is pretty standard for scriptwriters in the UK. I get asked a lot about how to break into film and TV as screenwriter, and the simple answer to the question is that a lot of writers I know, followed …
As a female script consultant, I worked on ITV soap Emmerdale for three or four years – I started as a storyline writer after being talented spotted by producer Kieran Roberts. Then after a period working in the story team I moved onto the writing team proper and wrote 25 episodes over two years on the core writing team of the show.
As a female script consultant, I’m always on the lookout for decent scriptwriting competitions, this week I spotted that the Page Turner Awards has opened for submissions in its 2022 competition Early in my career as a female scriptwriter I won a Granada TV competition, the prize was a really useful day spent with TV …