Andrew Hewitt — Writer & Story Consultant

Writing On Film

Good Films

Ripley’s Dream

Clarice Integrated

Biometallica

Electronic Worlds

Maternal Unity

Postmod Junkies

Wobbly Mayor

Disturbance

Genderflip

Heat Conceit

Innocence Polarity

About Andrew

Writer, character and narrative consultant, psychoanalytic thinker, screen composer.

I help shape stories, films, and experiences at the intersection of cinema and psyche.

This site embodies my trajectory from music to psychoanalytic story development in California and beyond.

Born in England in 1976, I live in Los Angeles on the Greencard, and hold British citizenship.

I have forty years of international artistic experience in film, television, and music, and a BAFTA Nomination as a screen composer. After an early career as a child classical performer, I earned a Masters in Music from Cambridge University, won a scholarship to the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, and gained the LAMDA Gold Medal for Acting.

On graduation, I completed the Introductory and Foundation courses at the British Institute of Psychoanalysis—including a year's clinical observation at London's Halliwick Center for Borderline Personality Disorder—and began two decades of in-depth personal psychoanalysis. I also attended shorter courses, lectures, and workshops at the Philadelphia Association, the London Centre for Psychotherapy, the New Center for Psychoanalysis, and the Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies.

After performing in hundreds of classical concerts, recordings, and operas, and in the soundtracks to the Star Wars Prequels and The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, I went on to compose the orchestral and electronic scores to over twenty feature films, as well as numerous television productions and commercials. (See the Scoring Portfolio section.)

My lifelong passion for cinema, and for narrative as psychological process, led to my creation of the One Story approach to screenwriting. The One Story section here introduces this unique fusion of psychoanalytic insight with cinematic creativity, in a powerful new understanding of character and story process.

Spec Scripts

Selected feature screenplays currently in development.

SILHOUETTE

Espionage Drama. 1999. A psychologist joins a clandestine inter-agency taskforce, to hunt a double-agent threatening the pursuit of a foreign cyberwarfare cult.

INTIMATE SECRETS

Drama, Alt History. 1885. Young lab assistant Freud travels to Paris to study with Charcot, the inventor of neurology, leading to mentorship, fallout, and Freud's development of a theory of mind that will change the world.

FLAKE

Horror. A genetic archeologist in search of a cure for the rare disease that killed her brother, uses ancient egpytian dna to bear a child, inadvertently reawakening an ancient demonic force.

THE TREATY OF ORION

Sci-Fi. 2084, three centuries after the treaty of paris enabled the independence of the US. From a depleted Earth a secret service agent, torn by guilt after a leader's assassination, seeks redemption through a solo voyage to our nearest star—to make First Contact and enable humanity's membership of the galactic community.

SILENT KIND

Horror. A film librarian in an old movie studio campus becomes haunted by characters in a damaged film she is restoring.

AFTERMATH

Psychological Sci-Fi. Researchers in a private island underground biotech lab uncover alien technology that releases their traumas and insanity.

One Story { write1story.com }

An Integrated Life

In my One Story screenwriting framework, a character engages and deeply affects us only if they enter into a specific process.

They must use the story to engage with the integration of split-off parts of themselves—for the first time in their lives.

That's why the story means so much to them, and therefore to us.

Clarice Starling, Michael Clayton, Ellen Ripley, John Dunbar, all begin their stories at a time where their unintegrated self stands at a critical turning point. In a sense they can't bear it, being unintegrated, any longer. Either they take the opportunity for transformative integration, or fester and die an existential death.

Their story offers them the specific possibility and opportunity to integrate their self parts—for the first time. This is the deep power of living, gripping, dramatic stories. Without this character process, films are undramatic and feel dead.

Unique Insight

One Story reveals the psychological core beneath all gripping narratives—a profound internal struggle determining why we care deeply, why films resonate, and why characters come vibrantly alive. For the first time, One Story articulates this fundamental process.

Central to this insight is the Tension-Collapse-Repair (TCR) character process—a fusion of psychoanalytic insight and cinematic storytelling, that trades vague industry abstractions (arc, transformation, hero, villain, tragedy) for exquisitely sensitive psychological reality.

There is only One Story.

Across genres—whether Silence of the Lambs, Star Wars IV A New Hope, Dances With Wolves, Three Billboards, Aliens, or When Harry Met Sally—truly gripping characters compel our love and concern from loving themselves, preoccupied with the urgent transition from fragmented to integrated self.

Clarice suffers from a childhood pain she cannot reconcile with her adult life. Luke labors to unite skill with intuition. Dunbar seeks his emerging True Self ("before it's gone") at the 'frontier' of his being. Harry struggles to accept that he passionately loves a woman he deeply likes.

Without such an inner transitional process, we simply don't care enough to keep watching. Our hearts don't go out to them, and no amount of visual or sonic fireworks will engage us.

This essential journey—struggling to become more themselves—is the true pulse of gripping storytelling.

Why TCR is Groundbreaking

Conventional screenwriting methods emphasize external structure and plot mechanics, without recognizing that audiences connect through psychological struggle. Structural process emerges from the TCR process, not the other way round. What grips us is not action per se, but the raw, existential struggle of an unintegrated self—the agonizing psychic frustration that drives all compelling drama. TCR reveals this missing psychological and personal core.

Rooted in a century of psychoanalytic insight, One Story translates profound psychological realities into practical narrative tools. No other approach integrates psychoanalytic depth, as old as cinema itself, so closely with the heart of drama.

Going beyond formula, One Story reveals the inner struggle of becoming—offering a deeper, more intuitive lens for storytelling.