The Alchymists

As another week rolls by and I’m just counting off the pages of the new screenplay as they appear on the screen. It’s always exciting to see a body of work grow, and if anything, I’m slightly ahead of myself on the page count front, which is good (not that I’m going to kill myself if my turning points don’t exactly match up with where Messrs Field et al say they should, but it’s a reasonable guide when you still a noob like me)

Apart from that, little else to report. I’m ploughing through a book my old boss lent me a few months ago, Charles Mackay’s ‘Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds’. It’s a fascinating book, and has a huge section about Alchemists. Perhaps I should have read it a year ago before I wrote SToA…

It’s given me some great ideas for the voice over, which I hope to record some time, in the next day or so, at least as a demo to try over the footage before the Miller returns from the Maldives.