SONGS AND SCRIPTS AND DUNKING BISCUITS

Every day tales of a winging-it creative

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I’ve written bits and pieces on BBC Radio 2, 4 and 5 comedy shows, worked in the script team for two series of Channel 4’s comedy-drama ‘Shameless’ and am currently working with The Royal Court Theatre in Liverpool as part of their script development programme. I am also a songwriter with songs on all major platforms.

Category: script-writing

WORDS AND ALCOHOL: THE BOOZE-FUELLED ROUTE TO CREATIVE HEAVEN?

May 10, 2021

I came late to alcohol. Domestic circumstances, of which I won’t bore you to drink with, meant I was 25 before I was hit with the pile driver of my first hangover. I was the lyricist in a two-man song writing partnership with composer Bob Mouat, and we had generated interest from a couple of…
WHY THERE’S SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL ABOUT AN OLD NOTEBOOK

January 22, 2021

I’ve never considered myself a hoarder as such, but then again I don’t expect a hoarder would recognise him or herself as a hoarder anyway. They would probably prefer to be described as passionate or a collector. Well if that is the case I am a passionate collector of notebooks. But then, who doesn’t love…
BETTER TO BE A HAPPY OPTIMIST THAN A BITTER CYNIC

January 2, 2021

As medical researchers fought hard and long to produce a vaccine against Covid 19, all of us encountered cynics who sneered at the speed it took to develop. Many also voiced concerns whether there is an ulterior motive in its development, citing the insertion of a tracking chip enabling people such as Bill Gates to…
ZOOM AND THE DEAFENING RISE OF THE QUIET WRITER

May 25, 2020

I recently attended an online writing course where silence and democracy ruled,

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Category: script-writing

WORDS AND ALCOHOL: THE BOOZE-FUELLED ROUTE TO CREATIVE HEAVEN?

WHY THERE’S SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL ABOUT AN OLD NOTEBOOK

BETTER TO BE A HAPPY OPTIMIST THAN A BITTER CYNIC

ZOOM AND THE DEAFENING RISE OF THE QUIET WRITER