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The London Screenwriting Gin Festival
I went to The London Screenwriters’ Festival last year. Successor to the now-defunct Cheltenham Screenwriters’ Festival, it’s a good way to meet other writers and learn from those already doing well in the business. I had a great time, met some lovely people, and would thoroughly recommend going. As you may have seen elsewhere on […]
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Why the Dead Island trailer is one of the best short films you’ll ever see
If you haven’t seen this yet, it’s embedded below. Watch it now, because there be spoilers ahead. I’ll wait. Right. So, what’s so good about that then, eh? It’s just a zombie attack done backwards, right? Wrong. It’s a fucking masterpiece of emotional film-making, is what. Let me talk you through it. Fade in close […]
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Those Panels In Full
So here’s what I’m down for at Redemption this year… Friday 4pm – Spies in Science Fiction. There’s a surprisingly high crossover. Friday 6pm – Artificial Intelligence. I actually did a degree in this, back in the day. Saturday 2pm – Does listening to fans make a show better or worse? If you don’t see […]
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Redemption 11
This is a quick plug for the SF convention that I’ll be attending in a few weeks. It’s called Redemption, and is really rather good. There will be many lovely people there, including Guests of Honour Ben Aaronovitch and Simon Guerrier. As usual, I shall be on a few panels over the course of the […]
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Everyone’s a Critic
On my last trip to Mum and Dad’s I retrieved a few boxes that had been taking up space there for Some Years. And in one of those boxes, my English homework books from secondary school. It may not surprise you to learn that I liked to write stories. And those stories were marked. With […]
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Don’t Tell Beckley
Over at his blog, the delightful Jason Arnopp has introduced a new feature for the procrastinating writers of this world. It’s called Tell Arnopp, and it works like this: Whenever you’ve completed your writing for the day, you email him saying the type of project you’ve worked on – “World War II Drama” – and […]