Failing Better
If you look over to the right there (NB – this may not work if you are reading this in the future and the post has been piped telepathically into your brain), you’ll see there’s a link to a screenwriting forum. It’s called Feed the Birds, and is designed to be a helpful resource for …
I’m finally surfacing again after doing a full-time job at the same time as producing The Just So Stories for the last couple of months. There’ll be a full update about me-me-me shortly, but in the meantime, why not feast your eyes upon the new trailer for upcoming British horror flick Stormhouse: Stormhouse is written …
Updates have been a bit slim recently due to work on The Just So Stories. Who know that producering was such bloody hard work? I’m having an assistant next time. Definitely. Anyway, I’ve just found out that there are a whole bunch of reviews for my adaptation of A Christmas Carol up at the Giant …
My. I have been busy. This Christmas, I have no less than three plays on in London. I’m producing The Just So Stories at The King’s Head Theatre. I wrote the adaptation of A Christmas Carol at the Lion & Unicorn. And on top of that, my new play The Strange Mésalliance of Arthur Munby …
Tagged by Steve Turnbull, who recently made a list on his blog of films he keeps coming back to again and again. And tagged me to do the same. My list isn’t particularly deep, or clever, and isn’t even necessarily a list of films I consider great. The Third Man is missing, as are Aliens, …
There’s been a lot of talk recently about the current hung parliament. Unfortunately there’s been a lot of misinformation, even from political commentators, about the Constitution of the UK, and how that should resolve. So here’s a quick guide to the situation. You vote for a Member of Parliament You don’t vote for a party. …
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 …
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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.
It has been pointed out to me recently that a Writers’ Social has not been organised for a long while. So the delightful Sara Baroni and I have organised one. It’s in the Knights Templar pub in London on Thursday 16th July from 7pm till closing. In this pub at this time we will be …
As you may have heard, SciFi have recently taken the decision to rebrand as SyFy. Why? Well, the word SciFi (or scifi, or sci-fi) has been around since Forry Ackerman invented it in the 50s. (Most serious SF buffs don’t like the term, considering it a bit gee-whizz, and prefer, well, SF instead.) And as …
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