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  • Go on, say hello.

    I’m off to Cheltenham next week for the Screenwriters’ Festival. You can find my thoughts on previous years by checking out this handy-dandy magic blogspot tag thing. Executive summary: it’s excellent, and well worth the money. You can still get tickets from the festival website. If you’re going to be coming along too and it’s […]

  • Letters From America: Jobs for the boy

    originally posted 2nd May 2004— Well, my second spec script is finished. As with the first one, we’re having a table read in my apartment block next Sunday. A bunch of actors and writers will come over, sit around our ping-pong table, and read my words aloud. During this, I get to see where it […]

  • Cookie Monster is not having any of your nonsense

    As you probably know, characters on Sesame Street will often sing songs naming, for example, things that begin with the same letter. Here’s Cookie Monster’s take on the issue.

  • The other writing secrets

    Danny Stack did a brilliant series of posts last year called Professional Screenwriter. It’s ten blogsworth of advice about how to succeed as a writer and it is, as the kids say, full of win. If you haven’t read them already, you can get ’em here: ReadingWritingNetworkingIndustry InsiderGet an AgentDisciplineAttitudeChoosing WorkIn the KnowDoing the Do […]

  • Letters from America: Words, words, words.

    originally posted 11th April 2004— So I attended the Game Developers Conference in San Jose a couple of weeks ago. We know a lot about engendering emotion through novels and films. While telling a story in a game uses different methods of presentation (via cut-scenes and in-game dialogue, for example), we don’t need new theories […]

  • Splendid!

    Hoorah! The Splendid trailer is now available for your viewing pleasure. Do the clicky thing with the arrow. You know you want to.

  • A serious flaw with the standard SIZR model of zombie infection.

    While the recent publication of When Zombies Attack! Mathematical modelling of an outbreak of Zombie Infection [1] represents a great step forward in our scientific understanding of the process of a zombie outbreak, their model posesses a flaw which must be addressed before we can truly say we understand the process of infection. Their model […]

  • Here Kitty Kitty

    After the success of his recent adaptation of the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen, m’brother Rafe has now directed a new play, Kitty and Damnation by award-winning playwright Joseph Crilly. The show opens tonight and runs until 12th September 2009, Tuesday to Saturday at 7:30pm.You can buy tickets via ticketweb or on the door.

  • Running with the Bulls

    I went running with the bulls in Pamplona this year. If you’re not aware of this particular pastime, it’s like this: Six bulls run through the streets of the town.You run in front of them, until they catch up.Then you run alongside them and let them pass.That’s it. It’s known in Spain as the encierro, […]

  • Letters From America: Rubber, Drugs, and PVC

    originally posted 26th March 2004— So, here I am in San Jose for the rest of the week. The day before yesterday, I read a post on a screenwriting message board. It said “I have free tickets for the Game Designers Conference. Who wants some?” So I said yes, emailed Susannah to check that I […]