When You Loved Me

No Life

Read it.

The Field Where I Died

The Children's Hour

Lisa Blackwell, she who portrayed Ella in the awesome short film I wrote last year will appearing alongside the wonderful actresses you see in the poster above. Very awesome. Just wish I could afford to go. It's very expensive!

What's in a name...?

Feature Names...

Forest of Leaves
July Flame
Monster
Autumn's Daughter
Daughter
Father
The Forest Inside
Coldwood
Cold World
Leaves
The Gone Away World
Forest of Ash
Family Ash
The Cold
Ash


and Ella...

What if Clark Kent was Chicken?

That's the question. That's the pitch for what I am developing at the moment.

Powerless has been with me for around four years now and has developed from depressed superhero suicide note to a pontificating scaredycat's dreams of hope and fullfilment. Currently in the treatment stage, a stage that I have now only just started to enjoy, to make sure the story is sound and the structure is bulletproof. This is hopefully gonna be a specscript that I can submit as a pilot or as a script that demonstrates my stengths.

Ella is done. Ella has had a screening at Bafta. It sat, alongside the other shorts that SW Screen invested in, in front of press, scouts and talent. Was screened last and well received, think it was on most people's lips when the lights came back on. May be wishful thinking. But Dan and I are not done yet with Ella. Oh no. More information when it becomes available, but suffice to say, I am excited.

Violent Crimes made the list of second rounders at the Red Planet Prize.A full script was required after the initial pitch and ten pages were well received. Unfortunately the script didn't make the final round. Red Planet has said the competition was very tough this year, which may be true, but ultimately I feel in hindsight Violent Crimes wasn't focused enough and failed because I hadn't developed it fully. Ah well.

NO LIFE!

When God Was a Rabbit -- Beautiful first novel from Sarah Winham, set to be one of Waterstone's 11 books and authors to keep your eye on this year. Personally, i think this is the first must read of the year. Stunning in every respect.

Black Swan -- Should win more awards than it actually will. Aronofsky returns with an awesomely twisted beauty of a film. Not his best, but this is a guy who only makes exceptional films.

Who is Jake Ellis -- New book from IMAGE, brilliant and intriguing.

Boardwalk Empire -- Amazing.

Pangs

First post in an age and it will be brief.

First and foremost, you must hop over to Dan's website. Very nicely put together with info on all his short films including the two I have co written with him and some ace photographs fromthe various productions.

Ella is nearing completition. After a few sound hiccups, we are nearing the finishing line. It had a showing to cast and crew back in October and went down a storm, which is great news.

Violent Crimes is out there in the wilderness.My fingers are crossed, but I am not too hopeful. Its a decent script, maybe the ideas are way above my station and i have bitten off more than i can chew and it most likely needs some editing, but i hope the writing stands out.It has gotten through to round two of the Red Planet Competition, which is awesome.

Hands are tied by the madness of Christmas and my job in an awesome bookstore, so writing is few and far between.

Have a few projects on the go, including two short film ideas, both are skeletons of scripts. There is a script I keep going back to over and over again, well, there are many, Powerless is one that is quite personal to me. I have found a new way to tackle it, to make it more personal, more contempory and less miserable. So pretty excited about that.

NO LIFE...

Morrision's Batman run.... fuck me the coolest brain frying thing ever!

Monsters... cannot wait to see this.

Scarlet... Brian Michael Bendis is God.

Mad Men... continues to be all that is awesome about TV.

The Event... Lost meets 24, but more 24 than Lost.... nothing can replace Lost.

Fringe... except maybe Fringe... which is bloody brilliant.... but could never replace Lost.

Lost Encyclopedia.... all kinds of awesome geekery

Sons of Anarchy... Its taken me a while to go from liking to loving this show.But fuck yeah, brilliant!