I get bored if things stay the same for too long. Hence the blog redesign. Funky grey and black, sans-serif fonts and all that.
Want to know what else I’ve been up to? This handy checklist will tell you everything you want to know and much, much more.
- Not editing The Novel. It has languished untouched for several weeks now, like a lonely pony in a dingy stable. It’s not that I don’t love it, but other shinier things keep on distracting me.
- Re-polishing my RP entry, The Camp. It didn’t get a PO3 round before I sent it to RP and since I have other plans for it I thought I’d get it read by a few innocent victims first. Just as well – a new PO3er pointed out some plot holes that needed plugging.
- Flailing blindly towards the spec sitcom finish line. The first draft of Evil Queen Sally (that’s a working title, Fact Fans) is nearly done and I’m beginning to wonder who I’ll get to read it. I’ve asked one bod whose opinion I revere but he’ll probably be too busy with real work. Heaven forfend that I have to pay for someone to read it…
- Reading someone else’s feature-length conspiracy thriller script. This someone else needs a co-writer and I’m on her shortlist. The script as it stands needs to be taken apart and laid out on the floor like the remains of a crashed aircraft so I can see exactly what’s gone wrong with it. Maybe then I’ll know how to rebuild it bigger, better and badder.
- Sending off a short story – Leaving the Underground – to the BBC Readings Unit. Wouldn’t it be fabulously wonderful to have a story read out on Radio 4’s Afternoon Reading? Sending a story in is a prerequisite to this, apparently. My theory about the Readings Unit being staffed by a team of literary clairvoyants turns out to have been wrong.
- Finding Cambridge-based theatre companies that stage plays from new writers. Done that. Now I need to start writing The Play. Hm. Maybe I have approached this in the wrong order.
- Writing a treatment for a story that I’ve had bouncing around in my head for a few weeks. Don’t know whether it’s a stage play, a television drama, a film or what. It’s just a story that has to be told visually. I’m going to call it Ria for now.
- Beginning the script for a major television drama, codenamed Magick. And stopping again, because it’s not ready yet. I’ve popped the idea back into my head for now. I’ll check it again in a month or so to see if the cheese is browning on top.
What d’you mean, ‘is that all’?
