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It’s Gilt-edged and glamorous and sleek by design, you know it’s jealous by nature, false and unkind…
It’s official. I’ve just started work on a novella. It’s part of a series that’s been bouncing around in my head for a while – and at least two of them I have to write, just to find out if I can. My novel was (and being able to talk about it in the past tense is just weird…) a fun, frothy sci-fi romp with lots of comedy. What I’m writing is bleak dark fantasy with a sexual edge, and it’s messed up in a whole variety of ways. It’s currently playing like a mixture of Carmen, Oldboy and The Doom Generation, by way of City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff Vandermeer (which, to anyone familiar with all those stories, is probably making no sense whatsoever), but it’s been sitting in my head for so long that I need to get it out. I’m trying to write some other short stuff mainly because I need to finish some stuff. I’m currently waiting for feedback on the novel… and the wait is a killer. I’d rather have something to occupy myself with, and I need to finish something before I start the next novel.
The cuddly Cthulhu sitting on my desk is telling me that it’s time for bed. Automatically rising at 7AM thanks to the sunrise (I usually sleep with an eyemask, but it’s gone missing) will do that to a guy…
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TV EYE: Heroes, Episodes 5-7
More Heroes episodes- and while there may be a few improvements, we are still drifting into the arena of the mediocre. Fear the spoilers…
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Films: Adventures in LFF (Part 1)
For the last two weeks, I’ve spent most of my life watching movies. I’ve never really felt like I’ve been able to tackle a film festival and use it to its best advantage, but I certainly got more out of the London Film Festival than I’ve ever managed before. So, in the spirit of fair play and spreading information, here’s a breakdown of everything I saw…
Movies for breakfast, movies for lunch, and movies for dinner…
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Return to the Forbidden Planet
I’m back. And hopefully, this time, for good.
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about my writing over the past few weeks, and one of the things I’ve got to stop myself from doing is using easy excuses not to write. There’ll always be fantastic reasons not to write, but writing is the only thing that I actually feel that I was put on this Earth to do. I may have major motivational and confidence problems, but the only way around them is to write and write, and then write some more.
I’m starting some stuff over the next week that’s hopefully going to build me up to my next novel. I’m also, however, going to be doing more with this blog. TV Eye will be returning soon, and I’ll be writing up some of my adventures over the past couple of weeks. The more I achieve, the better I’m going to feel.
Lots to do. And not enough time to do it…
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Sunday Morning (Here Again…)
Radio silence is happening in this case because I’m rushed off my feet by the tidal wave that is the London Film Festival. The four hour daily commute to and from London is giving me all kinds of fun (although I was able to stay over at a friend’s flat for the past couple of nights), and I’ve also seen a large number of films- most of which have been good, but most of which have also had maudlin, tragic or downright miserable endings. It’s a habit I’ve noticed of the LFF- Edinburgh never seems to have quite as many downers, but I at least had an OTT CGI animated adventure called Vexille last night, which was as strong an argument for the coolness of style over substance that I can think of. Today I get to go home- and I’m officially giving myself Tuesday off before leaping into another week of screenings. November 1st seems a very long way away…
One relief is that the new Mac OS (entitled Leopard) is finally being released on Friday, meaning I can update my computer, obtain all kinds of writing software I couldn’t with my current version, and carry out all kinds of computer-related funkiness- even though it has meant that, thanks to the Mac’s occasionally eccentric software names, I’ve been baffling George with outbursts like “If I get Leopard, I’ll finally be able to use Toast!”
Right. Time to go. More movies to watch…
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TV EYE: The Round-up
To keep myself sane, here’s some shorter looks at the continuing shows. As ever, fear the spoilers…
Pushing Daisies, Chuck, Reaper, Bionic Woman, Journeyman, Moonlight, Life
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TV EYE: Heroes, week 4
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Synapse Synopsis
The next stage is almost here- but I’ve got to get the synopsis right before I can officially leave The Hypernova Gambit alone. I’m working on it, and trying to get it to read well and not simply be a list of ‘and then this happenned’, but getting my head around it is a little on the tricky side. I veer from a kind of bizarre unshakable confidence in this thing, knowing that it’s so OTT and packed with so much life and vigour that something’s got to happen because of it (even if the writing isn’t always consistent)– to getting all negative and insecure and thinking that of course nobody’s going to want to publish it, for heaven’s sake. I am very proud of it, though, and I want the synopsis to reflect that, and to have as much of the energy of the novel as I can fit in– it’s just tricky thanks to the damn thing being so amazingly intricate. The detail is rather scary, but I’m going to find a way of doing this. I haven’t been doing all this subbing for the past few years for nothing.
I might know what I’m doing next, though. My head needs a little clearing, but I have an idea for a teen fantasy– and I think it’s big enough to give me a chance to do some enjoyably crazy stuff. All I’ve got to do is start it, and then keep going no matter what. Here’s hoping…
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TV EYE: Heroes – Episode 3
Week 3. Running out of ways to express disappointment. Fear the spoilers…
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TV EYE: Charlie Jade – Episode 1
In a change from the non-stop US TV, this is the first episode of an oddball Canada/South Africa co-production that’s been floating around since being made two years ago (I don’t think it’s actually aired on US TV as yet). This episode came free on a DVD with this month’s SFX, and while it’s very rough around the edges, it’s also one of the few new shows I’ve seen in the last few weeks that’s actually made me want to see more…
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