Friday, February 25, 2011

Noise

There is so much noise at my little abode at the moment, it is sometimes hard to hear yourself think. Between the work site across the road, the one neighbour who likes to listen to the soundtrack of Cats and the other neighbours who are obsessed, OBSESSED, with karaoke.

They have these trains now in Brisbane that have quiet carriages. You can't talk on your phone, you can't have music playing. You've just got to sit there and be quiet. QUIET!!! I want to create a quiet street. Like, now.

Thursday, February 24, 2011

What I’m doing

What am I doing? Well, outlines. I'm writing so many outlines at the moment, I'm starting to live my life in short, sharp actions:

Shannon walks to the shops to buy dinner. Contemplates the beef, but goes for the lamb. Makes witty statement about people and indecision over small life decisions to no one in particular. Fellow shoppers move away in barely concealed terror.

I've always had a troublesome relationship with outlines veering wildly from compulsively making long, detailed documents to thumbing my nose and driving at top speed into a draft.

But I think I may have found a breed of outline that seems to be working that isn't too detailed, but is detailed enough to put me on the right path when I'm flailing about in the ditch when trying to get characters what I want them to. And, if you're wondering, it's all about action. Follow the action of the scene and you have to work really, really hard to fuck it up.


 

PS Don't forget cheap monologues here and here. Only a couple of days left!

Friday, February 18, 2011

Loose change monologues

SALE! SALE! SALE!

Get In quick my fearless readers and buy two of my monologues for the bargain basement price of £1.01. CHEAP!!!

Names for things that sound like home

Oscar has just moved with his girlfriend to her home town. He is not coping well.

Ten Balloons

It's Clio's 16th birthday and she is determined to put her childhood behind her.


 

Check them out for some loose change. Just click on Licence A and it will be on your screen before you know it.


 


 

Saturday, February 12, 2011

The Little Play that could


 

So about a year ago I wrote this play called New Light Shine. I was pretty happy with myself but was ready for the tsunami of rejections that always seem to follow such amazing feats of creativity. But this little play seems to be (FINALLY!) starting to strike a chord with people. Some people. Other people have failed to see the brilliance and these people will of course be punished when the day of reckoning arrives – I'm pretty sure there is something in the bible about that. Anyway, if you want to know what I'm talking about then go here and read a monologue from it.

Or, if you are in Sydney next month you can go here and see it.

Or, if you are in San Francisco in May, you can go here and see a stage reading of it.

I know. I cater for all localities.

Lost

I know. Don't even start with me. And let's not do this again where I apologise and swear that I am going to be a better blogger and you get all angry but give in quicker than you should. Let's just pretend it never happened and I'm the kind of blogger that you've always imagined you would end up with. Okay? Okay.