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What Bonekickers Did Wrong
It’s not what you think. Spoilers follow. If you’ve talked with me about television recently, the odds are that I’ve told you in some detail about my love of the recent archaeological action-adventure show Bonekickers. Each episode kicks off with a bit of archaeology, and ends in madness. For example: In the first episode, our […]
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I can haz lite?
Oh, deep joy. The Bible. In Lolcat. Blatantly linkwhored from Stevyn Colgan.
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Letters from America: I have a new favourite cancelled television show.
originally sent 4th February 2004— Max Headroom.Ultraviolet.Firefly. And now Keen Eddie. Keen Eddie was a mid-season pickup for Fox last year. That means thirteen episodes. Seven were aired before it was cancelled. It’s also been shown in the UK. (Sky One in a graveyard slot, for those that are interested. Sunday afternoon. Filler material.) All […]
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Song Contest
So I got this request from Dom. “Find a song that sums up what you think it means to be a writer and post the lyrics on your blog and why you’ve chosen it. NB: It doesn’t have to be your favourite song, it just has to express how you feel about writing and/or being […]
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Letters From America: Things I Have Learned In California
Originally posted 22nd Jan 2004— – An undrinkable beer exists, and its name is Bud Dry– A kerb painted red is the US equivalent of a double yellow line– Everyone in Los Angeles is working on a screenplay or is in a band– Parking on a red-painted kerb will cost you sixty-five dollars– A microwave […]
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Large Hadron Collider
Is it just me, or does anyone else have a desire to sneak up behind people and shout BANG! in their ear today?
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TAPS
As far as I can tell I’m the third blogger to go on a TAPS Continuing Drama course, following in the steps of Lucy in 2006 and David in 2007. Perhaps they only let one of us in each year lest we contaminate the other talent and they all start blogging too. Anyhow, here’s what […]
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A Man Of Letters
This Empire quiz challenges you to work out the name of the film based on just one letter in the poster. I got 20 out of 46. Now I’m off to look at the answers and kick myself.
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Cardiff TAPS
This weekend, I shall mostly be on a TAPS Continuing Drama course in Cardiff. TAPS is an industry training scheme for writers. For two-and-a-half days you get taught how to write a Continuing Drama (with particular emphasis on Emmerdale), and then you go away and write a short drama using the Emmerdale sets. Some of […]
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Screenwriter Training
An interesting post the other day at Tim Clague’s gaff on training courses got me thinking. In any job you get, there’s a training budget. If we’re professionals, then we should have a training budget too. For things like screenwriting courses, conferences, residential workshops and so on. (Or, if you swing that way, on script […]