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The freedom of the novel and the constraint of audio

This current fabulous chunk of Christmas time off from that which pays the rent has enabled me to make a good solid head start on TableRappers audio novel - the big project for 2008. But the process of writing the audio episodes around the novel is proving to be an interesting challenge.
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New writing tool: Scrivener

There’s a new tool in the box for writing these days - this post was compiled using it before being posted, and several other existing projects have been ported across. This new boy is called Scrivener.
I’m not entirely sure how this one slipped under both my and jEN’s radar as we are typically geeky in [...]

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Sever didn’t make the cut

Well finally, a month and a half after they said they would announce, Golconda Films dropped me a brief email to say that my screenplay, Sever, didn’t make the short list…. The pure creative surge of constructing something from nothing, creating people, situations, stories far outweighs the sometimes tortuous process of hammering 100 pages of limb wrenching mayhem.

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I did it… 100 pages of gore and horror

Jen is currently reading through for typos and glaring grammar errors while I start to consider the required tag-line and 100 word synopsis (”easy, one for each page!” I hear you cry - unhelpfully).Sever - when you lose your family, just make a new one.Sever - making new friends, out of the bits of old ones.Sever - it’s got scary bits in it.OK, maybe none of those, but you get the idea.

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