What's a Playvel?
A cross between a screenplay and a novel
Structured like a movie – a Playvel is:
– Quick to grab your attention
– Faster to unfold
It’s a movie in your imagination! Story telling for the Information Age!
Take a look at our Playvels for readers and products for writers too.
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If you are a screenwriter or playwright with a great unsold script, we are looking for your work!
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For Readers
- fun
- relaxation
- escape
- wonder
- understanding
- insight
- growth
- laughter
- all-round enjoyment
Part One of every Playvel is absolutely free. So hop on the light rail in your imagination and discover another time, another place, another reality. Check out our Catalog link below…
Our current roster of Playvels includes:
MAGNA CARTA
by Christopher Morley
King John steals a young French girl from the altar of a rival and it sets off a chain of events spanning two continents and 800 years of history. He battles to regain all that he has lost until an unseen and deadly enemy rises up against him. © Playvel 2019 – All Rights Reserved
Find out why the producers of “The King’s Speech” and “The Tudors” partnered on this project.
KRELL
by Christopher Morley
Could YOU survive in a world of your own creation?
Researchers Jade Lang and Professor Leo Nash have created an Advanced Virtual Reality system that captures electrical patterns of thought in the brain and instantly converts them into a virtual world where the users own thoughts, imagination, fears and desires are REAL. But a world of total freedom without self-control can be a dangerous thing. When Leo mysteriously dies in an AVR Jade has 9 minutes to bring him back before his brain functions cease and he is lost forever.
Krell is a journey into ‘space’. Not outer space, but INNER Space. In AVR Jade is able to travel to the deepest regions of consciousness but ends up facing the threatening world of KRELL where thought-controlled humanoids brandishing weapons of imagination threaten her every move. © Playvel 2019 – All Rights Reserved
PRODUCERS, if you are keen to discover the next phase in Science Fiction, download KRELL today. Part 1 of KRELL is absolutely free, click on the Catalog link below and start reading. Parts 2 & 3 will be available soon, subscribe to our mailing list on our Home page for more info!
SILLY HISTORY
by N.M. Uh & Lyle Wyatt
How does Drew, a young idea man raised in a small town in the 18 century outback get Amy, an angel-of-mercy, to fall in love with him? Easy! Invent 20th Century economics and the American dream! The consequences for the town and for love are, well… revolutionary. © Playvel 2019 – All Rights Reserved
BRAIN DRAIN
by Christopher Morley
Jeff Kelly, high school rebel and class clown, accidentally downloads his conscious mind into the Slate 5000 Education System and takes over running every aspect of staff and student life at the exclusive Wickersham Boarding School. He becomes part of the machine, learns he doesn’t have to follow his programming – he’s human. © Playvel 2018 – All Rights Reserved
PERMANENT FLIP
by Christopher Morley
Bored with his life Lawrence Nolis wishes every workday was Friday and with it the glory of the weekend! He gets his wish but soon learns that Monday to Thursday are not gone, they’re only missing. He discovers that he is living them too, but the man he is Monday to Thursday is a much better person, a much happier man, than he has ever been before. What he needs is a permanent flip. © Playvel 2019 – All Rights Reserved
PRODUCERS: Interested in a low budget, high concept comedy/fantasy that answers the question most of us ask every day of the week, “Why can’t it be Friday?” Download Part 1 of PERMANENT FLIP absolutely free, click on the Catalog link below.
SUNBEAM & THE PURPLE HEARSE (Announced)
by Lyle Wyatt
A middle aged minister and family man; husband of a suicidal health-nut wife, father of a hedonistic comic book mogul son and a needy identity-sucking daughter, is torn between his earthly desires and loyalty to God and family. © Playvel 2019 – All Rights Reserved
THE FLOWERING HOMBURG (In Development)
by Christopher Morley
Nine year old Fletcher Whittaker finds a magical hat shop where the hats have the power to transport the wearer to another time and place. But one hat, The Flowering Homburg has even more special gifts for its wearer in the here and now. A freak of nature or a force? Fletcher must battle to save the Homburg and its maker from extinction. © Playvel 2019 – All Rights Reserved
COMING TRUE
by Christopher Morley
Campbell Truby, a struggling investment adviser meets the mysterious Charles Masters, the most successful financier in the country. Charles teaches Campbell how to invest, not in commodities or futures, but in dreams. Dreams are an excellent investment, one person’s dream depend’s upon another’s, and dreams never die, they just get buried. © Playvel 2018– All Rights Reserved
PAVEL’S GIFT
by Christopher Morley
A classical composer Stuart Hammond loses his sound. He must get it back or years of work and a lifetime of dreams will be lost. But Stuart is about to learn that he has more to lose than he realized. © Playvel 2019 – All Rights Reserved
PRODUCERS: Looking for a short film comedy/fantasy with heart and a low budget?
Check out the Playvel Catalog for more info on the releases above – click here!
For Writers
PLAYVEL Publishing
We are looking for your great unsold screenplays and stage plays. The ones you loved and invested so much time and energy in and are now gathering dust on your shelf. At Playvel we will work with you to adapt your great script into the Playvel format so its accessible to a whole new audience of readers. Costs are negligible. Upon publication we will launch a social network marketing campaign aimed at raising awareness of your work among the public, the industry and earning you income. Click here for more info. Reach us at info@playvel.com.
Story Development Working Circle
Have you ever wanted specific advice and feedback from objective and unbiased sources on YOUR STORY, YOUR SCRIPT? In the Story Development Working Circle you can meet with three other authors in a secure on-line location and share your work for their review and feedback. Just read their work and answer the questions in Playvels “Script Evaluation Guide” to provide in depth and objective feedback. The Circle is for more than just tips on technique or notes on your story; you should take away three separate critiques of YOUR work, what’s working and what needs improvement from three independent sources, so you can take your story to the next level. You will provide your views on your fellow writers work as well! The act of giving feedback and suggestions can teach you more about writing than receiving them but you will come away with both!
$35.00 (Canadian) $27.00 (U.S.) for two months access with a free Playvel Script Review Guide included, use it to help you with all your scripts. Click here for more info.
How to Create Inwardly Conflicted Characters
by Christopher Morley
Lift your story out of the mundane. Create three-dimensional characters who are compelling, authentic and unpredictable. Force your characters to make difficult choices within themselves based upon their own genuine and unique needs and desires that are in conflict. This Playvel guide unwraps the all the steps and elements required to build truly unique and compelling characters. Characters who will keep your audience guessing every second of the way. Special 25% discount for Stage 32 members. See Catalog link below.
Playvel Story Architecture
by Christopher Morley
Finally there’s a method to unlock your characters and story steps, let your characters tell you about their world, the one you have given them the freedom to create. The Playvel Story Architecture framework gives you unique and powerful lenses to view your story and your characters and make discoveries that at greater depth. Construct the story web with this methodology. Grasp the full potential of your story and explore and discover specific aspects of plot and character from unique and original perspectives. The results should be story options and ideas that you may never have realized. Special 25% discount for Stage 32 members. See Catalog link below.
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Links to “The Quiet Voice” Blog Posts
“How I Partnered with the Producers of “The King’s Speech” & What I Learned Along The Way”
Thanks for reading my blog “How I Partnered with Producers of The King’s Speech & What I Learned Along the Way” featured on Stage 32!
Did I partner with the producers of “The King’s Speech” (namely Gareth Unwin of Bedlam productions?) Yes, I did.
And the producers of “The Tudors” (Michael Taylor, Peace Arch productions).
Yup!
Was it the most exciting professional experience in my career?
Yes it was! So far!
It lead me on a journey of self-exploration that caused me to find myself as an artist and to know without a doubt that I had arrived at a place where I was working from the source of my creativity. That I was becoming whole as a result of the knowledge that I had reached my full potential, at least, in this moment now.
I wanted to let you know that there are additional parts and episodes available below. They are quick reads, probably should be quicker but nobody is perfect!
It’s about how I found my VOICE as a writer. Should you care? I think so. If these bullets below describes you:
– Unsure when a script is finished?
– In doubt over whether its any good or not?
– Tend to get depressed when people don’t like it?
– Think there is maybe something wrong with the story but are not sure what that is?
– Don’t get a sense of fulfillment and peace at the end of the process?
– Doubt yourself?
– Not sure when good is good enough?
– Wonder what part gut instinct plays in the creative process?
– Suffer from writer’s block? It means you’re using the wrong instrument.
So if you are wondering what your Voice actually IS and what it can do for you and your work, read on, and thanks again for reading. Let me know if you have any comments at info@playvel.com
Part 1: A Simple, Powerful Insight
Part 2: Facing Illusions – a Hard Truth
Part 3: In the Steps of a King
Part 4: It Wasn’t Kidding
Part 5: I Got my Answer
Part 6: 1 of 134
Part 7: Gaining the Throne
Part 8: “WHAT?!”
Part 9: “Glittering Prizes and Endless Compromises”
Part 10: Wait for it…
Part 11: Reaching a Dream
Part 12: Nothing Left to Ignore
