I’ve been as busy as some bees
Honestly. Last week I wrote the first draft of a short and, oddly enough, I don’t feel the usual burning shame on considering it. I’m very aware of some rough edges to be knocked off in the rewrites but, overall, I’m actually happy with it. So far. More importantly, for me at least, is that […]
Shill: Redux
Yes, I know it’s all slightly distasteful, this shameless self-promotion, but since I last mentioned my request for votes in the Movie Mogul Fund, I have received an email from them that expressly tells me to canvass. They even suggested friends, family and Facebook. I have exactly six friends, my family is dysfunctional in the […]
I receive some small validation
Earlier this year, I entered a short in the British Short Screenplay Competition. In typical fashion, as soon as it was in the post, I began to hate every word that I’d written and immediately went to the garden to cut a switch with which to beat the shame out of myself. I’m actually thinking […]
Shill people, shill like the wind
I have entered the Movie Mogul Fund screenwriting contest. This involved writing a synopsis for the movie I would write (were I to have the chance) based on the logline below. Genre: Black comedy Title: ‘NEGOTIATING LIFE’ “A melancholic life insurance salesman finds his attempts at committing suicide thwarted by his disgruntled customers…” It’s a […]
Well, it’s done
ScriptFrenzy ended on 30th April. I’m sure that you’re all on the edge of your tenterhooks wondering if I managed to finish. Wonder no more. I did. I now have a feature-length script sitting on my hard drive. One hundred and one pages completed within the allocated thirty days. I am now fully sanctioned to […]
Down to the wire
ScriptFrenzy update: 92 pages. That means I have to finish eight pages before midnight tomorrow. As usual in my life, I’m taking it down to the wire and pulling out all the stops. I’m mixing metaphors with abandon here to indicate the crucial timing issues at stake. I would say that I do my best […]
Script Frenzy Update
I was doing so well. So well. Last Wednesday night, I reached 53 pages in my Script Frenzy work. As the day before that had been the halfway-mark, I was pretty much back on target. However, I managed to write myself into a plot-hole and I had no idea how to get out of it. […]
ScriptFrenzy Update
For those of you interested in my ScriptFrenzy journey (and I realise it’s incredibly unlikely that any of you are), I am now twenty pages in. In an odd quirk of mathematics, this means I am also twenty percent finished – aren’t sums funny? So, one fifth of the way there in output but somewhere […]
It’s not denial
Once again it’s Friday and I’m posting, late at night, after a bundle of beers. Regular readers may well think they have noticed a trend of sorts. To them I say, bollocks. I don’t have a problem, I just love the beer. Yummy, yummy beer. Anyway, Script Frenzy kicked off on April 1st . I […]
What have I done?
Pretty much everyone reading is, I’m sure, aware of NaNoWriMo. Well, it seems that there is a script writer’s alternative. Script Frenzy seems to be a newish endeavour, designed along the same lines. Basically, the idea is to write a 100 page script in the period from April 1st to 30th. The average, feature-length script […]
« go backGerry Hayes
I mostly sit around all day and drink tea. Occasionally, I write stuff and send it to strangers so they can humiliate me and deride my efforts. Other than the self-harm to dull the shame of failure, it's not a bad life. Like I say, there's tea.
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