If you've come to me through any connection with my book, workshops or lectures on The Blank Screen, well, hello. But now let me tug your arm a bit and lead you to a couch where we can have a cup of tea, a biscuit and a natter. It's a couch called Self Distract and as I run out of steam with this metaphor, it's a more personal blog than The Blank Screen and it is not about productivity.

Actually, it is. Often. It's me and Self Distract was very much part of the route to the book and suchforth. But it's official aim is to cover what we write about and what we write with – when we get around to writing. It's unofficial aim is to bend your ear a bit, have a chat and, seriously, biscuits. Always the biscuits.

Self Distract comes out every Friday morning and this week's one came out of a talk I gave last night and a right stumper of a question someone asked me. This new post is called There are no rules in scriptwriting, but if you break them, it doesn't work.

I hope you like it. Your turn to bring the tea next week.