h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hey Hudsucker,
Where'd that name come from then?
I mentioned those things by way of asking! But to make you happy further, 'ere it be again:

How IS your writing and what stages are you at?

If you write short stories post the A code (in your adress bar for each piece of work) in Writing by Numbers where we use a grid system to point out weaknesses and strengths in short stories for each other. That way you get more feedback.

'Tis a bit quiet at present but fluctuates.
It helps me sit down to start AND finish something (A bit of a rarity for me, hence my penchant for poems!)
All the best,

i don't write short stories i write scripts.

this is a bbc site after all!

sheesh!

i don't want to post anything at the minute or probably ever.

maybe after i've sent something off to a production company...

dx

Yep a BBC site that is continually looking for stories, but yeah scripts are the main tug.
sheesh back

that was an ironic sheesh!

of course you have every right to be here with your short stories.

although i haven't read all that many i've enjoyed the one's i have. although i'm more of a novel sort of person...

lucky you, how I dream of the joys of a novel, ah! Getting settled in! its toe dipping season, a quick read here a snippet of knowledge there eye~opener over there, .. Wow! The months over I've not sat still for a moment reading, still I read a lot! that;s whats going on with me now. Novels are for long, peaceful times when the sun coats everything in honeycombs of heat and devotion.

How can I not be ironic? you are such an example! happy reads.

As for scripts Im juggling about three but... look, oops! Two of them have dropped to the floor ~ calamity!
I'd forgotten till I wrote this to you, how long I'd left them sitting there. Guess they can't have been that absorbing, no guilt./
The one I on now came from a short recording we did for "situational art". How bizarre just dont tell anyone"!
Its hard imagining a scene with movement when you are concentrating on their thoughts and feelings in the dialogue, the character's sub~agendas.
What say you?

i'm currently juggling seven scripts.

which isn't as extreme as it sounds - they're seven episodes of a sitcom.

however, a couple are a two parter but the idea's looking stretched so i might cut them into one and have a standard six parter.

ps. have you read to kill a mockingbird?

i tend to avoid the classics for some unknowable reason but i read this and there's a reason it's a classic!

and it's pretty short and easy to read.

apparently the films really good too but i've some trepidation about watching that - expecially after the film of catch.22.

No idea about catch 22, reccomended read, if not viewing?
To kill a Mocking Bird, not read it yet.
My next films to see are Ae Fond Kiss (although he usually deploys too many characters for me, Loach) and Mototcycle diaries.
There's so little of any content to see these days anyhow. I took myself off to see the last films of any worth on my own: Slyvia (about the poet, Plath) and Kill Bill II as my friends were all umming and ahhin' and I'd just finished an editing course. It really changed the way I watch a film.
A book/film transition I enjoyed was Pearl Earring, because the cinematographer had studied history of art for four years before making the film and it showed, and the director divulged his interest in dutch art to us and then we all went to see the pitures upstairs in the gallery after the screening it was geat.
Mostly I noted how the film makers took the main themes and ideas and translated them for film so although the film was not faithful to the book in terms of scenes, it stuck absolutely to the character's journies and you know the rest for sure....

i haven't been to any fancy screenings like that but i have been enjoying my orange wednesdays, been seein far more films than usual, some of them not what i'd normally go to see - wasn't expecting much from lost in translation... ended up loving it!

catch-22 i'd recomend if you like clever/insane comedy with a drop of pathos.

not much of a page turner mind as the story's almost an after thought... but in a good way.

as for to kill a mockingbird i urge you to borrow it from your local library immediately.

i've never been so sure about recommending a book before.

w.