Try incorporating different styles of writing into your journal, such as lists, poems, screenplays or stream-of-consciousness writing.
That evocative adaptation of that John le Carré' novel also found a place on the best adapted screenplay list (with a nomination for the writers Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan), a distinction that eluded "The Help".
This project follows the controversy surrounding a proposed production, since apparently scrapped, of Reagan, a high profile entry on the 2015 Black List of unproduced screenplays.
Atop the 2007 list of 130 screenplays, which the list's compiler, Franklin Leonard, issued on Friday: "Recount," by Danny Strong, about the 2000 election battle in Florida; "Farragut North," a political drama by Beau Willimon; and "Passengers," by Jon Spaihts.
A buddy comedy about a 17-year-old boy guided by a hologram of himself as an adult, it made the prestigious Black List of unproduced screenplays three years ago, before being touched up by (500) Days of Summer's Scott Neustadter and Michael Weber.
Six films on, at a time when those other wilfully odd film-makers, David O Russell and Alexander Payne, are routinely awarded major prizes, Anderson sometimes merits inclusion in the best original screenplay lists.
But we're forgetting something: Dahan has just spent three years working on Grace of Monaco – ever since the producer Pierre-Ange Le Pogam bought the much-fought-over script by Arash Amel that had featured in the 2011 Black List of unproduced screenplays.
Harper's screenplay was listed in the 2010 edition of The Black List, a survey of most-liked unproduced screenplays.
Few bookmakers are listing the best adapted screenplay prize, for which Adam McKay and Charles Randolph's script for financial crisis drama The Big Short is expected to be a frontrunner.
Since the "Rodham" script began attracting attention last year with its inclusion on Hollywood's annual Black List of best unproduced screenplays, political pundits appear to have kept their distance.
