Point & Click
Okay, the short didn’t make it into the local festival but - half a kilo of Whittakers‘ finest later - life. Goes. On.
Mm. This week, for your infotainment:
- Wellington film and television writer Sean Molloy has joined the Kiwi scribosphere with Why I Write. Malo, man!
- What if Fawlty Towers were to be submitted to the BBC today? Click here for a laugh. And some tendrils of fear. (Fedora-tip: James Henry.)
- The Independent has an interesting chat with Neil Labute on loving thy villains. (Fedora-tip: WGGB Blog.)
- UK blogger Robin Kelly has a great post on what makes a good thriller (hint: put yourself in your hero/ine’s shoes). It raises a very good question though: how do some of those bone- and knuckle-headed plots get on to the screen? (Fedora-tip: Lucy Vee.)
- Crime writer and retired detective Lee Lofland blogs about the many facets of law enforcement at The Graveyard Shift. Of recent interest to this closet-gun-nut were author Lori L Lake’s guest-posts on Guns, Guns, Guns. (Fedora-tip: Alex Epstein.)
June 15th, 2008 at 10:56 am
Sorry to hear about the short… but there are so many festivals these days, you don’t have to put all your eggs into MIC’s basket.
June 15th, 2008 at 11:04 am
Thanks man - appreciate the shout-out (that is what a shout-out is, right…? Just trying to appear down with the kids by using their jive talk…)
Thanks for the Fawlty Towers link. There’s a similar take on Doctor Who in a ‘Scriptwriter’ magazine (Issue 40, May 2008) which I thought was hilarious and want to distribute to every screenwriter I know…
Cheers,
Sean
June 15th, 2008 at 11:43 am
thanks for the commisserations, Ben. someone - not me - insisted that there be a Plan B, C, etc, and lo, we’re working through all those contingencies.
time for me to use the Guild library, Sean! i do like the bit about the original reader’s notes being framed and mounted on someone’s wall.
June 15th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
Cool.
And yes, sorry to hear about the short too. Being knocked back sucks.
Hope the chocolate was good however. Which flavour Whittakers?
Cheers,
Sean
June 15th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
thanks Sean.
Whittakers Macadamia rocks.
(and yo, it is shout-out, homes - you’re on the blogroll, too.) (being a hip-hop fan from way back - like, when it was called ‘rap’ and it was supposed to herald the end of civilisation - i find it quite disconcerting when the stepdaughter pimp-rolls into the house after school and goes, “Sup”.)