Archive for March 2010

Creating a Text

This piece was first published on John Baker’s Blog What phases are involved in the creation of a text? I have created texts of all kinds and have published poetry, short stories and a novel. I have also written and produced stage plays and short films and completed television and film scripts. Despite this extensive [...]

Uncaged

Another script developed with TAPS, this time for their Continuing Drama course. It’s a domestic: UNCAGED SCRIPT 2010 Related Posts:Midnight Comes

Midnight Comes

This is a script developed with TAPS with a view to getting it produced by ITV for the It’s My Shout scheme. In the end it didn’t make the final cut but got as far as a reading and development at the BBC studios in Cardiff. Anyway – here it is. Midnight Comes Script 2010 [...]

More ebooks

The Words in Me and The Walker have now been published as ebooks on the smashwords site and they are being offered for free until Saturday. Links: The Words in me ebook The Walker ebook Ta Related Posts:The Three Bears ebook

The Three Bears ebook

The Three Bears is now available as an e-book in many formats from the excellent Smashwords site. http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/422 Related Posts:More ebooksTake a lookGoldilocks

Paint Art

What to do when you’re bored with stumbling Related Posts:chopsyA small creature with a brain shouts into the voidArt Sale Expanded

oops!

You get an idea in your head and next thing you know it’s occurring. I thought I might get rid of – by burning – a load of old paintings that were damaged or irredeemable in some way so I piled them up like a bonfire. I lit it. Then realised how stupid I was [...]

Two Black Cats

This is a photo of my painting Two Black Cats in the Garden it’s painted in acrylics on a canvas board and it’s no longer in my possession The painting was part of an exhibition I held shortly after the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami. There was some interest in the painting during the exhibition, one [...]

BBC Election Weblog

Not strictly an article but this seems like the right place for this. In the run up to the 2005 General Election, the BBC Radio 4′s Today program put out a call for listeners to keep a weblog of their take on the proceedings. I sent in a sample of my writing and eventually they [...]

He wouldn’t harm a fly

He wouldn’t harm a fly The link between Animal Abuse and violence against people. (First published in Animal Prints Magazine) I still feel a vague sense of guilt when I remember how I used to swat flies and watch their squashed bodies slide almost imperceptibly down a wall or a window pane, like fat black [...]