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Apr 1, 2009

Freelance Writing - The Basics

For anyone who wants to become a freelance writer and has found themselves asking "What is..." or "How do I..."? Here are the answers you're looking for!
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Janice Hally

Freelance Writing Feature Writer

Janice Hally is a Scottish screenwriter with more than 300 hours of prime-time television drama to her credit. She has also written fiction and non-fiction books.

international Playwriting Award

She began writing as a theatre playwright. Her first play, written while she was still at university, won the ISPC international playwriting award and was professionally produced by the Tron Theatre in Glasgow, Scotland, the year that she graduated from Glasgow University with a Master of Arts in English and Drama.

Best New Writer to Television

The play, "Ready or Not",was subsequently adapted for television, and its production led to her nomination - at the age of 23 - in the category of Best New Writer to Television in the British PYE Television Awards.

Prime Time Television Drama

During the 15 years that followed the award, she went on to become one of Scotland's most prolific television writers, responsible for some of the most highly-rated drama in her homeland. As creator and scriptwriter she collected more than 650 credits for drama series, single screenplays and children's drama.

Non Fiction Writing

Janice's involvement in children's drama led her to write Modelling and Acting for Kids a handbook for young people and their parents on how to avoid the pitfalls and make a success of the modelling and acting business.

Novels

Janice has also written novels. Her latest book will be published by French publisher Hachette, in 2010. It's part of an new series of books which the French publisher is going use to break in to the English language market.

Personal Life

Janice met her husband Peter May, more than 25 years ago when they were both young writers on Scotland's top-rated TV drama at that time. They were married in 1990. They recently left their native Scotland to live in South West France where Peter now concentrates on writing novels. Accompanying him on the research trips for his award-winning China Thrillers means that Janice has traveled extensively in China and the USA, and his current Enzo Files series means a lot of travel in France and western Europe.

In between travel and writing commitments, she and Peter very occasionally offer their successful writing course, Kick Start Your Project in France.

Janice has received twelve Editor's Choice Awards for her Suite101 articles and is Feature Writer for the Freelance Writing Section.

Editor's Choice Awards:

Writing & Publishing