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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...

The Oscars 2018 - My thoughts on some of the winners and awards & film festivals in general...

I’ve never done a blog or indeed written at all about my thoughts on award shows and ceremonies. We find them in all walks of life, not...

WRITING A SCRIPT FOR MARKET

Or tailoring a script for a specific production company, genre and established market audience. It was the summer of 2015 and I was on...

Writing my first novel - My top ten writing tips

Sorry, I know it’s been ages but this book and prepping a film has kept me busy, busy, busy! So I have written and re-written the first...

How the experience of going to the cinema has changed for me in the last four decades – for better o

I have been going to the cinema since the first Star Wars movie was released in 1977, seeing it seven times in a single month because...

LIFE CAN OFTEN IMITATE THE THEMES OF OUR ART

Hello, Welcome to my first Blog about my new novel series ‘Diamonds in the Sky’. I am hoping to do one of these every few months or so,...