This morning I considered entering a BBC script-writing competition for a 30-minute comedy. After spending a few moments reading the guidelines, I lost interest. Apparently they’re looking for something ‘original’. A particularly ironic request considering the spectacularly unoriginal content of most of their programmes. A quick scan of the sample scripts in the BBC Writers’…
Category: Writing
No Time to Achieve your Dreams?Rubbish.
Time. It races. It flies. It takes. It heals. We don’t have much of it and there isn’t enough of it in the day. But we all share an equal amount. God (insert creator of choice) gave each one of us, the gift of 24 hours. Yet, most of us don’t try to use those precious hours to achieve something that will bring…
Finding Meaning in Suffering (or, working out what that stint in the prawn factory really meant).
Sean Connery polished coffins. Billy Murray sold chestnuts. Christopher Walken tamed lions. Whoopie Goldberg applied lipstick to corpses. From all that I have read and heard from these people, I understand they have enormous gratitude for their former mundane employ. Each experience, no matter how horrendous at the time, contributed to the success they enjoy today. …
Twitter Makes me Anxious!
I’ve got the shakes again. The social media shakes; the Twitter tremors. It’s 24 hours since I published my latest blog post; a post I spent some time crafting; a post I’m proud of; a post only 3 people have read. I am a FAILURE! NO ONE likes me. Maybe I need to focus on my…
Stop Banging! 