Down among the deadlines

Perhaps you are entering a script competition - such one of ours! Perhaps you owe a script to a producer. Perhaps you are in production and the pressure is really on.

Whatever your precise professional situation, as a writer - indeed, as any form of comedy creative - deadlines are going to be a key part of your life.

You therefore face a choice: either fight them and let them stress you out, or embrace them and let them drive you forward.

Of course, there are some writers who can get away with not meeting their deadlines. We can all...