Went hot air ballooning this evening. Fantastic! I’d recommend it.

Anyway, news from Screen South at last. They want me to go in on Friday to meet someone called Alex Finbow (cue gaffaws of laughter from my wife and cracks about meeting a yellow and green striped man).

After doing a bit of research I found out that it may well the same Alex Finbow who directed 24 Hours in London. (This would tie up with my original request to Jo at Screen South, which was, ‘do you know anyone who could cast a critical eye over my short and help improve the edit at all?’).

Then again it might not.

But assuming it is, it’s quite exciting, as they seem to be going out of their way to help me which is magnificent. Hopefully I’ll find out more tomorrow…

I’m about half way through act one of the sci-fi thing that was Architurus. My new philosophy of not plotting to the nth degree and letting the story write itself a little more seems to be working.

I discovered the other day I’m a right brain dominant person, and plotting in detail seems to be much more of a left-brain activity. Working through the plotting while writing feels a lot more comfortable to me, and the old right brain is really starting to kick in with some surprising stuff. The trick seems to be knowing when to allow the left brain to reign the right brain in and when to let it go off and do it’s thing.

Also, having edited the short, I feel a lot more comfortable knowing how late to leave the start of scenes and how soon to get out again. I’m sure if I’d written this a year ago, or even six months, I’d be on page 300 by now…

Much work to do yet, but it’s feeling good.