Brilliant. A treatment to deliver tomorrow and two hours to come up with a blistering idea for a prospective spooky television show someone asked for. Seems like the ideal time to start a blog.
Why? Because everybody else does it and I hate the idea of missing out on a party. Not that I actually want to be at the party - I hate parties - but I hate the idea of missing out on the party even more. It's the curse of the egotistical introvert. And as a writer I am nothing if not monstrously egotistical (a condition disguised, I like to think, by a charmingly self-deprecatory manner; I love it when writers get together and compete to point out the flaws in their latest work whilst managing to imply those flaws are but attractively humanising blemishes on what is of course, all present will understand, a master work).
Thing is, if a writer has a blog they seem more famous than me, and if they are more famous than me they must be better than me, and if they're better than me I must be rubbish, at least according to that snide, gnarly and entirely unnecessary inner mong voice that seeks to prevent me from doing any work at all.
Plus Steve "the Volkmeister" Volk, lead writer on afterlife has a whole bloody FORUM of people saying what a genius he is (slightly overstating the case I'd suggest, though not far off), and quite frankly I want some of that action (I wrote episodes 3 & 5 of the current series, 30/09 & 21/10, since you asked. I hope.). Obviously I will get no comments at all, or a single comment saying "your shows sucks my long pipe asshole!" and "japanese l0ltia PHamAZY waits to ex you aloysius teddy in out sex", but I'm prepared for that.
Meantime, I'm going to continue this morning's good work by going out for a newspaper so that subtle ripples of current affairs will permeate my work, the sun will refresh and inspire me, and I can put off actually starting for another hour or so.
Oh yeah - if anyone finds a burgundy wallet in the ball pit of the toddlers' play area at Drusilla's Zoo, it's mine. Thanks.
Writers & Writing
About Me
- mark g
- I've written for several TV shows, radio, and had a single Exciting Excursion Into The Supposedly Glamorous World Of Feature Film. Most recently tranmitted work has been on the excellent afterlife, Life on Mars, and Ashes to Ashes. I like coffee, procrastination, and stationery.
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