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It’s been manic at work recently, pulled two twelve hour days already this week and probably another today. With the commute that adds another four hours to each day. I’m existing on six hours sleep a night, coffee, cigarettes and whatever food I can find (picky eater rather than bin-diver).
I’m so tired I feel like I’ve been drinking.
I was stuffed with cold over the long Easter weekend so didn’t get around to writing any script which has but me way behind schedule, I should be at about fifty or so pages and I’ve currently managed twenty or so. The finish line seems a long way off and next week looks like another crazy work week, the only writing time I get is on the train to and from work at the moment.
Still, I love the script so far and hope it’s got some fresh takes on old fairy tale ideas. I might post some excerpts later.
03:
I ripped out 5 pages of dialogue from my script this morning and lost a character in the process.
It reads very much more like a fairy tale now.
I’ll miss my brain-damaged toilet-monikered hero Doulton though.
02:
So, I had a good day yesterday. Managed nine pages in total. Another two on the train this morning and wrote myself out of a cul-de-sac, invented a cool character and moved the story on to act two… Take that Ideas Toad!
31:
Well at least for a month anyway. I served the Ideas Toad his eviction notice this morning but he didn’t seem particularly bothered.
You should be able to keep tabs on my progress here at MKF and at my profile page on Script-Frenzy.
Somehow I’ve got to fit in my full time job, the #orgy meat in London this weekend and BangFace at the end of the month and still deliver 100 pages of script. It’s going to be a busy one.
I didn’t get around to finishing The Nomads so I guess I’ll have to wait until May to see that one off, sorry to those few who’ve seen the incomplete first draft and were looking for more.
29:
Matt’s not doing the script frenzy with me. He’s got his physics degree last exams to battle through.
Guess it’s a one-man effort this time round then, I’ll grab him for NaNoWriMo.
I dug out my yellowing copy of Mirrorshades this morning, almost burning the facon in the pan when I got a bit too absorbed in one of the stories. It’s an amazing little compilation that I suggest any modern sci-fi fans get a hold of if you still can. It’s got stories from Rudy Rucker, Greg Bear and William Gibson in it. The latter is the first story he ever had published and it is absolutely amazing, called the Gernsback Continuum. The compilation was only printed when Gibson had released Neuromancer and Count Zero so although he was already firmly entrenched in the sci-fi genre pantheon as a new god he was still quite wet behind the ears and hadn’t gone on to finish the Sprawl series or even start the Bridge trilogy. The Gernsback Continuum is such a beautifully crafted little story about the 30s – 50s future America that didn’t happen, covering only twelve pages but doing so with such aplomb that I’m left jealously wishing that I could have even half the grace traversing the English language as he does. If you can’t find a copy of it, have a google for it, it’s really worth reading.
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I’ve currently got some new things underway. First off is this blog which is hopefully going to become a place where I can store and publish things that I do and things that I find so that they can have a home whilst I flit form social.net to social.net.
Who would have thought that the blog platform would have been the ideal place for self-publishing and still retaining the rights to your own work.
Obviously I’ve got some short fiction on here too which you’re welcome to stay and enjoy with hopefully plenty more on the way and some longer pieces which won’t be ready for a good while yet.
An Alternate History/Golden Era/Trench War story with political leanings in the shape of The Inner System War and a story about the final hope for mankind in the shape of flinging generational ships out to the stars called Dandelion Clocks. The later actually is just notes and a name because I’m terrified of starting and ruining it.
Before all that begins though I have the challenge of Script-Frenzy. The whole of April (When I’m not at festivals or work of course) will be dedicated to attempting to write a script of 100 pages with my good mate Matt. The concept is good, whether we’ve got the stones to pull it off is another matter.
Anyway, stay tuned as there’ll be irregular updates throughout the process.
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