Category Archives: writing

occasional blog postings talking about my writing and/or the process of writing.

Here We Go Then

Posted on April 20, 2009 by

Tomorrow, the first episode of Out of Office will be released, 6 minutes of video that represent my first foray into the world of internet video. This is the biggest project I’ve undertaken as a writer, and it’s exciting to finally be at the point where it can be shared with the wider world. To be honest though, it’s also a bit terrifying, and I’ve already started and re-started this post a bunch of times, trying to work out what to say. Continue reading →

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Out of Office: Coming April 2009

Posted on March 16, 2009 by

It’s almost here. It’s so almost here that we now have a logo, and a website, and a picture lock on episode one of the series. It’s been quite a long haul to get to this point, but I can officially state that I am now excited. And also nervous, and worried, and having strange dreams about video file conversion!

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Film struggles on

Posted on March 10, 2009 by

I’ve been working on a feature film script since the middle of January, and it has been quite a slog so far. Based off a short film I wrote last year, I got the outline together fairly well, but (with hindsight) should have spent more time playing around with it before embarking on the script itself. Having committed myself to writing it, I’ve kept at it with varying levels of day to day success. Continue reading →

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short story republished

Posted on March 4, 2009 by

5 weeks ago, I wrote about the 24 Hour short story competition I entered, and linked to the story I had written. Rapidly advised that this could disqualify me, I withdrew it …

… well, the results are now in and sadly I didn’t place. I figure it’s okay to publish my entry now:

‘The Sins of the Father‘

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writing a short story in 24 Hours

Posted on January 26, 2009 by

A few weeks back I received an email from the lovely lara suggesting that I enter a 24 hour writing competition. A quarterly competition run by writer’s weekly it sounded like a fun way of getting the juices going, so I signed up. As followers of my twitter account will know, the competition was this weekend, and I thought it might be interesting to reflect on it whilst it was still fresh in my head.

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