“So …” Davy begins.
“So” I say, knowing that something is coming.
“How many pages have you written of your 90 page feature film script?”
“Ehrm, well ….”
“Ahrr, I thought so.”
“Yeah, but you know, Dan and June … They hold my head hostage at the moment.”
“You will be in trouble if you don’t start soon. November remember.”
“I … [...]

A true story.
At 3am in the morning:
Dan: “Ahem”
Me “Oh God no, not again, wait until tomorrow”
Dan: “Sorry but …”
Me “What is it this time, I need sleep!”
Dan “I was thinking that maybe I should wear a red tie in stead of a blue one.”

Location list

You turn on your iPod.
You choose: Shuffle songs.
You press play.
You have 492 songs on your iPod.
And the first song that starts playing is this one.
I love my iPod.
How can it not become a great day.
Well, …

No hats no boots

Well I got the hat and the boots, so bring it on.
Writing yesterdays post didn’t take me a lot of time. When there is (Pirate in this case) passion involved, words come easily and posts get long. Most of the time, when I read it back the next day, I feel I [...]

Brief Encounter

Oh, the agony of saying goodbye …
I wish I could write about adventurous stuff I have done today but I haven’t done any! I spent the whole day finishing off my applications. I am going to apply for 2 different schools (betting on 2 horses seems clever). It’s amazing how much [...]

Row your boat

Detail of the Excell records building, Notting Hill
London.
What?
Change of plans.
And it has everything to do with screen writing.

I seduce you with my eyebrow
Oh God not him again, I hear you think. Well as I recently have been hanging out on websites realizing that I am not the only one having issues I might as well just openly come out with it. As I felt the need to throw some Bill in between [...]

Love and Rock your iPod

2 hours in The Cafe and it was done. 2 cups of tea and warm apple cake drowned in custard did the trick for me. I normally don’t think about it that much any more, but I did yesterday: it feels good that my first script actually got written in The Cafe from The Girl [...]

Some words from the guru

Good words from screen writing Guru Richard Curtis.
I thought 6 days and nights on a train, think about the huge amount of time I will have to write. Well I did write a bit here and there, but not the stuff I was supposed to. How could I, I was sharing [...]

They really are my favourite genre in film and I never get tired of them, but there are very few good ones. I am still doing Screen writing on Uni, my script is nearly finished, and is currently in rewrite state. Which means reading it a million times, and polishing it by changing words [...]

10 people died because of the storm here in the UK yesterday. The train traffic was disrupted in London because of it, but I somehow managed to move around it all. One of the men who died, died in Shropshire. Which made me think about Oliver Lucas in The Vertical Hour again, as he lived [...]

Way out

Standing in the subway, the shuffle came up with John Barry’s James Bond theme on my mp3 player. Funny how all passengers suddenly seem to become part of a film, and how many people actually looked like Russian spies. Or was it my imagination again. Anyway, I hopped off at Bond Street. And I [...]

A voice like Barry White, headache, and pain in muscles, that normally meant a flu is on it’s way. This time was no exception. Some would say that she was lucky that it didn’t come last week, where she was in New York. She heartedly agrees, and is thankful for that.

Romeo, oh Romeo

Well I am afraid we do. Obviously. One of the assignments for the screen writing course was to come up with a character description of a character you would like to use in your story.
Now out of a class of 14 people :

14 people chose a male as their main character!
(We are [...]

Reflections

Reflections (Camden Lock by night)

How long does it take to get through 71 days nowadays. I am so eager to go to NY - I can’t wait that long!
The scary thing about class is the fact that the stuff you have written gets presented in front of the class. I told our tutor that that [...]

Train

There was the guy with the sunglasses chewing gum, and a matchstick casually balancing on his lower lip waiting to fall off, but it didn’t. There was the Harry Potter boy lost in his book, and there was the man reading “Mathematical Foundations” a book as big as a bible, and not the most sexy [...]

I just want your extra time, and your … kiss
But there are always the worries.
Worry number 1: I am too old to start all this.

(For the quizzers : What film is this from?)
What do you want to do after this course - is a question that pops up regularly at the networking evenings in the Actors Centre in Covent Garden.
I still don’t really know the answer to this question to be honest. And the last time someone asked me [...]