I’m tentatively going to have a go a NaNoWriMo. I don’t hold out great hopes of finishing, but when I realised that I only needed to write 1666 words a day, it didn’t strike me as too much of an arduous task. I figured that 50,000 words wasn’t in the realms of War and Peace, …

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As I was between projects, editing-wise, I took the plunge and upgraded to Mac OS X Leopard as soon as it arrived at my door today. The upgrade was incredibly smooth, and the only casualty seems to be Dramatica, or moreover, the Pace security protection software it uses. I’m sure it’ll be sorted in due …

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Today we had the premiere showing of Greetings at BAFTA (or apparently, 195, to those in the know), which was an exciting thing. About 20 of us headed into their little screening room as Ken presented both Alligator and Greetings. Both went down very well. For a film shot on DV Cam, Greetings looked really …

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Some of you may recall a few months ago I created a wee site call Scribomatic, and, after a few people commented on how useful it was, it seems to have been promptly forgotten about. Day after day, I kept checking the Google Analytics stats – 3 visitors… 4 visitors… 9 visitors… 2 visitors. And …

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If you’ve seen either of my two shorts, you’ll have seen a certain chap called Ben Shockley. Recently Ben’s been very busy adapting Thomas Cullinan’s ‘The Beguiled‘ for the stage, and should you find yourself in the Islington area at 7:00pm between October 9th and 13th, with little to do, you could easily pop down …

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