Is the best writing based on experience? Michaela Coel has established herself as one of the most exciting talents in TV today, partly by drawing on traumatic events in her own life.
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‘I am a vessel for the story to come through’
Is the best writing based on experience? Michaela Coel has established herself as one of the most exciting talents in TV today, partly by drawing on traumatic events in her own life.
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Is the best writing based on experience?
Some say, yes. Yes. Great writing comes from the heart, you can only bring real emotion to a subject if you have been through it. I May Destroy You is a brilliant drama because Michaela Coel used it to explore her own trauma.
No. The most vital thing in writing is imagination. Shakespeare is the greatest of all writers because he immersed himself in his characters and saw the world through their eyes.
Keywords
British Academy of Film and Television Arts - Founded in 1947 as the British Film Academy by some of Britain's greatest directors. Its TV awards were instituted eight years later.
Tower Hamlets - Part of London's East End, it has a higher rate of poverty and unemployment than any other borough in the city.
Pentecostal - A Christian movement emphasising baptism in the Holy Spirit.
Church - The Christian religious community as a whole.
Devout - Earnestly religious.
Guildhall School of Music and Drama - One of the world's best colleges for the performing arts, it counts Daniel Craig, Paapa Essiedu and Jodie Whittaker among its former students.
Hackney - An area of London that neighbours Tower Hamlets.
‘I am a vessel for the story to come through’
Glossary
British Academy of Film and Television Arts - Founded in 1947 as the British Film Academy by some of Britain's greatest directors. Its TV awards were instituted eight years later.
Tower Hamlets - Part of London's East End, it has a higher rate of poverty and unemployment than any other borough in the city.
Pentecostal - A Christian movement emphasising baptism in the Holy Spirit.
Church - The Christian religious community as a whole.
Devout - Earnestly religious.
Guildhall School of Music and Drama - One of the world's best colleges for the performing arts, it counts Daniel Craig, Paapa Essiedu and Jodie Whittaker among its former students.
Hackney - An area of London that neighbours Tower Hamlets.