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The Road to False Accounts - writing a dark satire on the biggest miscarriage of justice

This is my blog, so they tend to be long, if you want the short versions of my thoughts, just read my tweets. I do about 20 Tweets a...

The road to making '13 Seconds in Kent State' - The development of a LIVE PERFORMANCE online drama

All five episodes of this drama web series are available to watch on The Outcasts Creative YouTube Channel. At some point in my youth, I...

A tribute to friend & Visual F/X Supervisor Alan Marques

ALAN MARQUES 1959 - 2021 - This is going to be a long and difficult post, but if anyone deserves more than a kind word said about them,...

Some of my favourite Character Actors - Part One - Americans

For some time now I'd wanted to do a blog about the glue that really holds the front line of my industry together - The Character Actor....

How I made the most of my 2020 (And why it was better than 2019)

I shall start this blog but saying something a little controversial. In the grand scheme of things 2020 was really not all that bad for...

MY LOVE FOR ALL THINGS DUNE & HOW I SAW A CUT OF THE 1984 VERSION, THAT FEW OTHERS GOT TO SEE

my first viewing experience of it seems to have been somewhat different from everyone else’s in the UK.

The 100 Letters Project - writing to 100 people I don't know personally, who have influenced my

Early on in 2018 (Which seems like a long time ago now) I made a decision, that I am sure some will consider unusual, to write to 100...

Timber Theatre & Graham Fletcher Cook - the man from whom I learned so much.

We all have our own memories and stories of people who come into our lives and impact it in ways we could not have foreseen. These are...

Researching & Writing the Crete Episode for Paratrooper

(Above - two German Fallshirmjaeger on Crete during the battle) For those of you who keep up with my social media and creative endeavours...

Lessons Learned - Writing the second novel and the new characters.

Well, it's February 2019 and high time I wrote a new blog as my last one appears to have been this time last year, where I covered the...