Despite the lack of blog posts I’ve still been keeping up with my creative pursuits over the past few months, although personal matters have also taken up rather a lot of time. I’ve mostly been focusing on just two projects, the first of which was my show at EMF camp Read more…
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…
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…
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…
How do you celebrate the wonderful curiosity of a man who was not only a Nobel Prize winning physicist, but also a bongo player, safe cracker, incredible teacher, and on the commission that investigated the Challenger space shuttle disaster? If you’re Robin Ince, the answer is to celebrate what would Read more…
People don’t easily fit into pigeon-holes, and so neither does this blog. In the past when I’ve run a more personal blog I’ve asked people which elements of it they most enjoyed reading and ended up with something of a hodge-podge of responses. Some people wanted to know what I’d been Read more…
