It is important that you ensure your treatment has flow. Unlike a script, it should not be a series of actions and events. It should tell a story, in the most flowing and readable manner.

For this, you need to draw on a very different vocabulary of words and phrases that will  help that essential forward movement.

Make liberal use of linking words to flow together your ideas, scenes and sequences. Words such as "However..." "Meanwhile..." "Moreover..." create a strong sense of storytelling that will draw the reader on.

Linking phrases are also useful here: "While Rufus is struggling with the handcuffs..." "On the other side of town..." "Three days after their first meeting..."

This is very different from screenwriting style, and it will bring your treatment writing to life and make your treatments much more accessible to the reader.

Meanwhile...

This is just one of the key skills of treatment writing that are not covered in screenwriting books and courses.

If you want to find out more, on Saturday February 19 you can join me to learn the rest of those treatment writing skills while you practise creating Exciting Treatments.

This one-day workshop takes you through all the crucial areas of treatment writing.

In the first half of the day, you'll develop your story or series premise, write a basic and advanced story sentence, and sharpen the main plot and character arcs and the underlying subtext.

In the second half, I'll help you take this short outline and show you how to write to the best of your ability - sharpen the plot, improve your choice of words and sentence structure and deepen the meaning.

You also get a bundle of top class treatments of different lengths included in the price.

I only run this twice a year. The next is 10.30am to 5.30pm, 19th February at the University of London - for full details and to book click here now.