Last month I was lucky enough to be able to spend the weekend at one of Showstopper’s improvised musical workshops, and I picked up some really good advice. Which was a little strange, because it was advice that should be really familiar to me by now not just from improv, Read more…
This weekend I spent some time taking some video footage and some audio recordings of a show some of my friends did, and attempting to mash those together into something resembling a decent video of the song that they performed. I was actually quite happy with how it turned out Read more…
I recently finished the first full draft of a script for a (hopefully) one-hour long stage show, and as I really need to get it finished soon I quickly moved onto the next natural step – rereading it so that I could try to improve it. And I’ll admit to Read more…
Cambridge Science Festival is over and done (it went well, and I was particularly pleased with my delivery during my solo show) and I’ve finished the course that’s been taking up several evenings a week (in a successful manner), so I’ve had a bit of a break before I start Read more…
Alas, I have gone over a month without posting, which is more than twice as long a gap as I ever wanted to leave. However I have still been busy since I started talking about my creative endeavours on this blog, so here’s description of what I’ve been up to, Read more…
13 scenes written, and the final confrontation started. Our hero stands seemingly alone, surrounded by the villain’s crew. But she knows she’s got a trick up her sleeve, thanks to her nearby hidden friend. Who the villain demanded be brought to him a few scenes ago. And for some reason Read more…
The whole point of making a “Not-A-New-Year’s-Resolution” was to encourage myself to follow up on it, so another blog post is overdue! This time I’d like to describe my personal answer to the perennial question about writing, “Where do you get your ideas?” For me the process of writing seems Read more…
Like so many people (hi everyone), I’m rubbish at New Year’s Resolutions. Probably because trying to come up with something for a year is something of a challenge – all the targets I could initially think of were things which would either be over before the year was more than Read more…
Something a bit different for the Sci Cam blog and myself this week – a book review. The Martian – Andy Weir From the back cover: “I’m stranded on Mars. I have no way to communicate with Earth. If the Oxygenator breaks down, I’ll suffocate. If the Water Reclaimer Read more…
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