I’ve had the cold lately and it has really really disturbed my sleeping patterns, though in a good way! Been waking up sharp and fresh and ultra-early like back in primary school, ready for cereal and morning cartoons. Samurai Pizza Cats? That weird all-dark Astro Boy episode when Astro Boy died or something? Anyway, this morning I woke up automatically at 6am and just lay there, my mind still a bit hazy as the fresh air swirled in through the open balcony glass door, thinking – thinking – thinking – then suddenly: inspired. A vision in my head which I had to jot down. I think it might work well in The Secret Project or if not, just as images and feelings from a Friday morning captured into words… Read More

People who know me well know how I feel about life and work. It is a feeling that far too much of our time is spent doing jobs we aren’t passionate about, allowing our real talents and passions wither away like the proverbial unwatered plant: a plant that cannot be kept inside a pot because its roots need to grow. Society often pretends to allow us to fulfil our ‘hobbies’ in our ‘spare time’: in the few meaningful hours we have left after work, mainly spent eating and sleeping in order to just do it all over again tomorrow. The fact that our Passions are relegated to mere ‘hobby’ status, as well as the time restrictions we are bound to when attempting to fulfil these innate needs, does not do… Read More

Following up from the last post, here is another glance at this story, this time from another character’s perspective. Speaking of which, a major change: we have chosen to rewrite our main character’s experiences, as well as the rest of the story, in the third person rather than the first, as was previously seen in the extract from the last entry. This change has been applied in order to appropriately distance the reader from our main character (a male) and also to ensure that the narrative can be as objectively detailed as possible. It will also assist in the eventual transference of our novel format into script format.

Well, despite all that, THIS extract from the story WILL be in the first person and is coming from one of… Read More

Andrew, my neighbour, friend, co-writer and web designer who also created this site, have a story we wish to tell. Without giving too much away, it is the story of how ordinary, everyday people, can make a difference in this world, a world that is moulded around the 9-5 work routine. A world that is too busy flicking through “reality” TV shows and the pages of tabloid magazines to notice the passing of our own lives, distracted from discovering who we really are and what we want to do with the time we’ve been given. Because, surely, life has to contain so much more than merely Brangelina, stocktake sales at our favourite department store, and half-naked self-taken photos in front of bathroom mirrors for the MySpace profile.

You’re probably… Read More