Ode to a Decaying Toothe

Forsooth, I have a wisdom tooth, That like the state of Denmark be. So will I unto my chums Who practice modern dentistry. Who wilt, with needle and with pliers, Extract the wisdom from my head. And thus a dribbling idiot, I will retire to my bed.

NYC Midnight: Screenwriting Nervous Breakdown

I mentioned in my last blog that I was, in my current incarnation as exhausted armchair adrenalin junkie, doing another writing competition. One with another tight(-ish) deadline. And a brief. For someone who hates writing to brief, I seem to only pick competitions where I have to write to a sodding brief. I British. I likez whinging. You…

#29PlaysLater Rides Again

Hey pop-pickers! As I am a sucker for a ridiculous pyramid scheme-like writing competitions, I’ve entered NYC Midnight’s Screen Writing Challenge. While less intense on a day-to-day level than #29PlaysLater, the stakes are definitely stacked due to the humungous number of entrants. For round 1, you get sent a brief for a screen play and 12 days…

29 Plays Later – Challenge 25 – Twenty-Nine Play Slater

CAST   Director Al Pacino           –    Cat Slater 1 Audrey Hepburn      –    Cat Slater 2 Bette Davis         –    Cat Slater 3 Charles Chaplin     –    Cat Slater 4 Daniel Day-Lewis    –    Cat Slater 5 Elizabeth Taylor    –    Cat Slater 6 Greer Garson        –    Cat Slater 7 Ian McKellen        –    Cat Slater 8 Ingrid Bergman      –    Cat…

Review of a dating site what I wrote and forgot about…

Like wading through turds wearing a wedding dress… … The wedding dress which you are never going to use, if you are expecting to meet the one on eHarmony.  The app is actually pretty good. It’s clean and efficient. The notifications are sometimes a bit slow. But then apparently so is the algorithm that makes the…

Horton Hears A Huhne

I love it when you find notes and fragments of stuff you started writing a long time ago. You forget all about it and get to be disappointed in yourself all over again. This nugget was me trying to turn Chris Huhne’s court case into a Dr Seuss book. Natural thing to spend your time…

At the end of my knit-wits…

So, again the hand of fate has decided to outwit my plans for world domination through evilness. In fact I like to think that raw evil decided to bubble up through my skin I the form of big pussy boils known commonly as chicken pox. That’s how evil I am – I got the virus…

Two Months and I’m No More Evil

Hmmmmm… I’m rapidly discovering I suck at being evil – apparently being a bit bitchy and crude isn’t the sane thing. This will make some of you gasp and fall off your chairs – I might actually have to accept I might just be too nice! It’s like thinking you’re Lady McBeth and discovering you…

“You can’t kill the Boogeyman”

“Hi honey… I’m home…” “We all go a little mad sometimes.” “Be afraid. Be very afraid.” At this point I am sad that my name is not Johnny or Chucky. Why is it, in horror movies, boys get all the best lines while the girls run around in white vests and do things you know…