Were back

So were back once again. Well I’m now 22, and I have begun editing my script where I am suppose to be bringing it down to a nice 90 pages, and yet I have gone up by five after reviewing 12 pages of scripts. Odd.

Macs rule, its official. My 22nd birthday present is a nice 13-inch black macbook and I love it. No other word to describe it. I am lying in bed as I type this.

I have still not heard anything back from Big Finish about my Who Story I entered earlier this year, but they are looking at making the announcement at the end of May, another month. No fair. However in between then and now, I have to devise and enter a short story comp or two. One is for the previously announced SFX comp and one for the Black Library, which is based on the subject of planet killing.

I am also keeping myself busy with thinking of ideas for a short film. I have recently got the passion for film-making and I am going to have to give it a go. Watch this space.

Oh and work is taking me for pizza on Monday. ☺

Tis Finished

Did you enjoy The Shakespeare Code. I know I did, and apart from a new found appreciation for all things Shakespearean, I am again rather up for Script Writing. However even better Project One has now got a complete draft. So now all I need to do is to revise, get people to proof read it, so my dodgy spelling is ok. And then to read it out loud to make sure, that the speeches do work.

Now I just need to get motivated.

In other news I have now got a shiny black mac book coming for my birthday, and I can’t wait to play on it. I just have to wait till Friday. There is a new single out by Linkin Park which is brilliant. I have now listened to is 79 times since I bought it last Wednesday (thanks I tunes). It’s a bit different to their usual style but is very nice, and has a very nice piano in the back ground.

The third book in the Power of Five series by Anthony Horowitz has been released and I have devoured it. The series has an interesting premise of what if our real world had a supernatural element to it. He has written a decent book, and though does not focus on the main characters from previous books. Is very good and I am looking forward to book 4, which is Harry Potter sized so I am looking forward.

Finally we also have the trailer for the Bourne Ultimatum. This is the third film in the Bourne franchise, which is one of my favourite, with each film getting better. So watch this http://craigbe.typepad.com/movieblog/2007/03/the_bourne_ulti.html and I shall see you soon, after a driving lesson and redraft. Now can I force myself to loose a character.

Bye

An education from the Master. (not that one)

So as I am typing this I am about ten pages from completeting my script for project one. It’s scary, now that after years, of bashing ideas and getting the style this is going to be the first that one gets submitted and most likely rejected. So I’m excited and nervous.

However on the positive side of things Doctor Who came roaring back in on Saturday night with a cracker of an episode in Smith and Jones. Just watching Russell T Davis’s script was an eye opener for me. As I thought about how he wrote this scene this way to get the new companion (Martha) over as the sensible one, and did this to get that, and so on. It was an education. So I am really looking forward to poring over my script over the next few days, reworking scenes so that instead of writing a script as one would write a novel. The visuals show the story. I get the feeling that this script is going to work out longer than I was expecting, which means I have to think about maybe loosing that subplot or even losing a character.

Trust me having six main characters running around doing things, while focusing on two out of the six, really does give me appreciation why Jon Nathan Turner killed of Matthew Waterhouse’s character Adric.

On the novel front I have just finished reading the first book in the Fiends on the Eastern Front trilogy, and to be honest it left me very disappointed. The book was gradually building up for a rather dark ending. And it did give a rather dark ending, it was just that the action kicked up a notch in the final three chapters and left me feeling somewhat lacking. Oh well. Going to give that a break and read a book set in the Necromunda game world from Games Workshop.

Other than that DVD recommendation is Final Fantasy 7: Advent Children. It’s a continuation of the game and is highly enjoyable with great graphics. The story though good was a bit weak in places and I felt that it relied on its visual, which were stunning. Done on a computer they looked really nice, I just felt that it needed a tighter plot and would have been a lot better. However it did get me playing the game again.