Went to see Chris Knowles at lunchtime today. He is very enthusiatic about filmmaking and I think he’ll do a great job at encouraging it the the area. He also seems to know a lot of very useful people, including one guy I met the day, Dave the Thief, as he was introduced to me, …

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Today I got SToA out of the proverbial drawer where it’s been collecting dust and watched it for the first time since I showed it to Alex Finbow nearly five weeks ago. Thankfully it was better than I remembered, but it’s so obvious now where it needs improving. I’ve arranged to go and see Chris …

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Went into town, did some shopping. Came home. Cleaned the Bathroom. Went and hung out with an Oscar winner. Well kind of. I went to the screening of Wasp, where myself, friend Dave, and 50-odd other people watched the film, which I thought was really quite good. Then we enjoyed listening to Andrea Arnold dish …

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Got tickets to go and see Oscar winning short Wasp with director Andrea Arnold and her team tomorrow, followed by a Q&A. It’s all part of the Folkestone Literary Festival, so it should be interesting to see what I have to do to make STOA an Oscar winner (though I guess it might just be …

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Having taken a good week out of my writing time to work on a personal project that I’m hoping will bring me some much needed extra income (enough to fund the first first movie? Hope so!), I’ve spent the past three evenings writing solid. In longhand. Much to my wife’s chagrin as I got ink …

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On more than one occasion I’ve had conversations where people have remarked that the only interesting characters in fiction are the bad guys. The idea always stuck in my head as I felt that bad people aren’t normally bad, they are just weak in certain areas or driven by inner demons, which sometimes makes them …

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Having spent most of last week moving my various web sites, including this one, across to a splendid new server, and if not doing that, entertaining some work colleagues over from the States, it’s been good these past couple of evenings to get back to some writing. I’m still working in Iambic Pentameter/Blank Verse, mainly …

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