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Monthly Archives: December 2007
The Greatest Time Travel Stories
We all have those genres in which we’ll watch anything just because it’s that genre, and my particular generic addiction is time travel stories, of which there are some great movies and novels and some utterly cheesy ones. I don’t care. I consume them all like a crackhead, even when they fail miserably. My obsession with this genre has led me to start writing my own time travel novel series, Touchstone, and my novella, The Very Thought of You, is …
The science of seduction
I don’t usually write about factual TV here, but First Cut: The Rules of Seduction on Channel 4 last Friday was of particular interest to me because it was the latest mainstream ‘expose’ of the previously secret world of seduction, a world I discovered eight years ago when I was working for a prodco and researching a TV show about sex. Here was an online community of men who had discovered a whole new solution to the perennial problem of male-female …
The one-month misery memoir
As announced 30 days ago, I decided to take part in the 2007 NaNoWriMo contest and accept the challenge of writing a 50,000-word novel in 30 days. And I’m pleased to announce that I chested the 50k line two days before the month was out and can now officially call myself a NaNoWriMo ‘winner’. But let’s hold the champagne. I may have written 50,000 words in a month but my novel is still unfinished, which means I’m still waking up …
Look for the nines…
The Nines, written and directed by John August, finally hit UK shores this week and I’ve been waiting for it for ages ever since I read John’s blogabout how he’d recorded a commentary track for the cinema. All you had to do was go see the film as normal, then download John’s audio file and put it on your iPod and go back to the cinema and watch it all over again whilst listening to John and actor Ryan Reynolds talk about …