I am so tired, my eyelashes hurt. The London Screenwriters’ Festival is over and all I have to show for it is sleep deprivation, a pocket full of other people’s business cards and a devastated bank balance. Actually, I came away with a lot more. What have I learned? Well, writers really, really, REALLY like hats. And I [...]
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Four Nights In August Awesomeness
Remember the screenwriting contest for the London Screenwriters’ Festival? Remember how there was a film-making contest based on the winning scripts? Well, click here to gaze in wonder at the entries. Twenty three bad boys to point your eyes at. I’m completely stunned by the different tones, styles and themes people have brought to the [...]
2010 – A Year In Mediocrity
Ah! The traditional introspective New Year’s Eve blog post! I hope you all had a more than adequate Christmas with well-supervised corporate fun and are looking forward to a decent New Year. I have been slack recently. Well, slacker than normal. For this I apologise, but you will be glad to know that I am [...]
A Self-Important Announcement
Hello. My name’s Dave and I’m a ruthless self-publicist. While enjoying a few glasses of wine last night, I had an unfeasible idea. I normally have unfeasible ideas after wine, including the Ribbed Tampon and a self-lubricating iPhone screen to avoid the condition of “Tweeter’s Thumb”. But this one I thought I might have a [...]
My Blank Pages
Well, the car finally blew up. Cock. But, in an attempt to put a silver-lining on this particularly gloomy cloud, at least I’ve had the day at home to do some writing. Which I have singularly failed to do. Double Cock. And then had some bad news from work. Which I probably can’t talk about. [...]
Reality Bites
Well, the petition didn’t work. Maybe you just don’t believe in William Shatner. Personally, I’m a Shatner-Agnostic. Still, no intervention from deities so I’m going to have to do this off my own back. I’ve not written in anger in three weeks now. But, there’s a deadline on the horizon. Baby C Due Date is [...]
Onwards And Upwards
Got the feedback from the BBC Writers Room today. Harsh but fair. But mostly harsh. They couldn’t even bring themselves to call it by the correct title in the letter. “Hmmm… They normally say nicer things than this when they write to you,” said the Better Half on reading it. Still, positives to take from this [...]
A Glimpse of the Future?
I had a dream of my perfect life last night. Just a glimpse. In it, I woke, had breakfast with my kids and took them to school/playgroup. I then stopped off at a small non-corporate coffee shop by my house and then went to a small office where I spent the morning writing. Bliss. Then [...]
Cod Psychology
True story: Boy meets Girl. Boy falls in love with Girl but Girl is with someone else. Heartbroken, Boy writes script in which a boy meets a girl and falls in love with her, but girl is with someone else. A couple of years later, Boy and Girl get back in touch. Boy, because he [...]
