writing
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Balancing Project Priorities – A Recipe
Four ingredients: Basics – Pay the rent. Plan – Expand portfolio. Fold into Basics and leave to set. Motivation – Sprinkle with expectations and nudging emails. Compulsion – Scratch brain-itching ideas onto paper. Makes fuel. Mix haphazardly.
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A List of Reasons Why I Love Lists
Tickable, cross-out-able, tear-up-able, burnable ( unless the list is on an electronic device – blow-up-able?) – very kinesthetic. Procrastination enablers – especially if the list is colour-coded, frequently rewritten for neatness, or annotated with once meaningful symbols to be puzzled over. Everyone does this, right? The illusion of industry – it looks like you’re working and being organised, without actually having to do anything. Yet. The small explosion of brain chemicals reacting to produce a pleasant sensation when you’ve ticked everything. This is also the time to start a new list, to re-experience that brief neurochemical rush in the near future. Perfect productive activity for bouts of insomnia when your…
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My Writing Process … (this week anyway)
Today I’m writing my comic scripts oldschool – with pen and paper. Sure, it’ll take longer on the whole, but I just don’t fancy sitting in front of a computer screen all day – it’s far too warm! In fact, if I’m feeling really lazy. I might just thumbnail the whole thing rather than writing descriptions – it’s faster. That way, when I come home from teaching summer school in the afternoons next week, I won’t have to think so hard when I type it all up. I love thinking, but it does use up a lot of energy.
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Siren Song Trailer
Here’s the sales trailer for the independent horror film that I worked on recently: FILM KNIGHTS Siren Song Trailer from Team Siren Song on Vimeo.
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Exciting news …
My exciting news is that I’ve been commissioned to write a feature. It’s a micro budget horror and my treatment is done and approved. 90 pages until the first draft edit hair pulling begins 🙂