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Insomnia

January 5, 2004

I just could not sleep last night. My dreams were way too vivid, even for me, including such things as they did like lots of really, really big tarantulas, the cast of Stargate SG1, two copies of my Mum, a kitten with mastitis (huh?) which died, and pine needles that would hatch out more spiders […]

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SP1 rewrite

January 4, 2004

Another five minutes' worth written. Jeeze, this is like pulling a tooth. Although I did take time off to phone a couple of friends. Which did take, er, a couple of hours. Each. And I did watch Raiders of the Lost Ark, for research purposes, obviously. (Resisted Pirates though. Good girl.) Ahem. Up early tomorrow […]

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Maps galore

January 3, 2004

Funny how just when you've totally forgotten that you were ever looking for something, you find it. Ages ago, I saw part of a Have I Got News For You spoof London undergound map from '97 on Going Underground, and was dying to find the rest of it. Of course, I didn't. Having totally forgotten […]

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Middles stink

January 3, 2004

Apart from the time I spent cooking chicken risotto (see below), I have spent more time working on SP1 today than I have for ages, yet I've still only managed to write seven minutes. Sophocles, the screenwriting software I use, measures scripts in minutes rather than pages, which is fine as one page is supposed […]

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Too much onion

January 3, 2004

I just cooked chicken risotto for the first time ever. Very nice, except there was way, way too much onion. Next time, there will be an awful lot less onion.

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Which Pirates of the Caribbean character are you?

January 2, 2004

I mean, come on. There never really was any doubt, was there? Which Pirates of the Caribbean character are you?

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Undecipherable omens

January 1, 2004

Do you think that stubbing your big toe entirely without noticing and shattering off a quarter of your toenail is a good omen? I'd like to think that it is, sort of a blood sacrifice to ensure that the gods are on your side for the rest of the year. Weirdly, it doesn't even hurt, […]

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Boing! Boing! Boing! Boing! Boing! etc.

January 1, 2004

So, here I am, starting the year as I mean to go on – JD and coke in my glass, blogging tool open in my browser, working on my script in Sophocles. Well, no point wasting time, is there? Tomorrow is today, and yesterday is in the past. Best place for it. Welcome to 2004!

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2003 – I'm so glad it's over

December 31, 2003

End of year reviews are normally all Top Tens and Best Ofs, which I tend to find really quite dull, suffering as they do from the effect of recency – the songs you remember as the best from the year have a tendency to be the ones you heard most recently. Instead, I thought I’d […]

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Public Service Broadcast – Starting Screenwriting

December 31, 2003

I had a comment on one of my previous posts asking how to start screenwriting, so I thought that instead of just emailing a one-off reply that would disappear forever into the ether, I ought to just write down everything that I’ve learnt over the last six months and post it up for posterity. This […]

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If…

December 30, 2003

If snot were a national currency, I'd be rich beyond my wildest imaginings. Sadly, it's not.

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Feeling Listless review of the year

December 29, 2003

A few weeks ago Stuart from over at Feeling Listless asked me to take part in a retrospective he was putting together for his blog. Never one to turn down a request to write, I happily knocked out some replies to his five questions and sent them over. Stuart's currently halfway through publishing the various […]

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Thank you Secret Santa!

December 29, 2003

Secret Santa's gift came today and I am chuffed as a small horse, particularly as I had been worried it would end up in Reading. 😀 Me happy bunny! Thank you Ben!

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Oh, and one more thing

December 29, 2003

Whilst I'm at it, can I please just clarify one thing. It's only a minor thing, but it's quite important, I think. I am not Johnny Depp. This is not Johnny Depp's blog. Please don't email me thinking I am Johnny Depp, because I'm not. I'm the wrong gender, age and nationality, and that's just […]

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Still here… just

December 29, 2003

Still snotty, but now with added laryngitis and a nice phlegmy cough to go with it. I'm not so much coughing up sixpence as the entire GDP of a small South American nation. In notes. That leave paper cuts. I'm bored of this lurgy now. Will someone please buy it off me? Just give me […]

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