I found this by Nick Ward masquerading as a blog entry about 'The Ferryman'. About him going from comedy to horror and writing 'The Scene'. Good fun.

I finally caught up with Notes from a Scandal in movie form after finishing the book quite a while ago. The book is superior, and it's worth quickly going back and looking at the intriguing 'narrator position' of the book, which is the key to figuring out why this is case of 'book over film'.

I just got an email saying I made the first cut of the Bluecat Screenwriting competition, a breaking in US comp.

Via Aussie playwright in London, Ben Ellis.

How strange... I have just turned down a request for a production of a radio play I wrote in 1996. It was so old I didn't even have a copy on my computer so had to ask agent to scan and send it to me. So it turned up this morning and I read it in about 20 minutes... and there is no way I can allow a production of it.

Why did I turn it down: Was it a bad play? Was the director a psychopath?

The web is a wonderful place for finding stories. And while we like to think ourselves very inventive on finding stories more often and not we over hear and bit from here, mix it up with a bit from here and then create something 'new'.

So here are a couple of places I grab every day (via RSS) that provide interesting angles, takes and snippets of general goodness to dwell on...

Some interesting stuff happening in Australia asrts policywhich everyone there will be a little nervous a

I finally caught one of the four 'Southern Lights' series a couple of weeks ago.