Category: Writing
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Rewriting..?!
I’m not going to tackle all of this now, but I’ve been inspired to share something with you. One draft does not a writer make. One draft is what John Buchan called the block of stone, from which you create a sculpture. Redrafting is hard. Help is wonderful. I always have help on my scripts,…
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Taking the helm of the Rondo Writers’ Group
What IS the collective noun for a group of writers? A murder of crows, a sleuth of bears, a flange of baboons and a flight of dragons. Take your pick what would we like? A blot? A tippex (for writers of a certain age)? A row? A bin? But that’s merely an intro… I’m very,…
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GLITTER KNICKERS AHOY!
OK – IT’S SHOW TIME! The new show can be unveiled! It’s called Glitter Knickers, it’s on for just 4 nights in March, here in Bath and it’s a comedy about being in your early middle age. Tickets have just gone on sale and the theatre (the gorgeous Rondo, with comfy seats for just over…
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Lawks – new news!
What a delight is life! Further announcements to follow, so suffice it to say there will be a new show on stage next year, a 1-woman comedy-adventure. What will you get? A bit of wee, a wee bit of a tears and a LOT of laughing. For all grown-up girls and boys. Mid-writing, I’m doing…
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Unravelling security blankets you didn’t know you had
I had a horrible realisation the other day. I haven’t had a show on stage for a year and no new work’s been on-stage since a personal train crash….Never under-estimate the impact of a writer’s daily life on their work.
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Giving good story: it’s all about the posture (but never posturing!)
If you love writing, you just love writing. I’ve got several fresh projects on the go (film, stage and TV) and it’s a lovely time, tending the garden, straightening the bamboo poles, checking the rainfall, soil and consulting the manual…I also have several (*metaphor switch alert*) fully formed babies out there, trying to find their…
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My under-nourished child: writing
I’m writing again. After a year of office work fee-earning, a lot of high heels and suits, mind-shredding guilt and doubt, 800 commuting hours and a host of very unexpected experiences, I’m writing. Again. And of course, a bit of writing stuff happened in the last year – one stageplay rewrite, a couple of 1-page TV…
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Catch & Kill the Clock-Eaters? Or live now, write later?
I’ve never before seen the clock as a tyrant the way I do (ironic pause) now. In February, I binned the full-time office contract- great for funds, appalling for my just-4 year-old. My extraordinarily understanding client got out her net, dragged me from the slough of despond and offered me fewer hours. The results are…
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Leslie Crowther & The Red Pen of Time
I’m catching up on the quantum script after moving house. As you’d expect, I had put the annotated script “somewhere really safe”…. far too safe, it turns out. Almost four months later, it was still “lost but obviously not lost”. Panic was forbidden. It was just not lost. Right? The irony of this is not lost,…
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Magic Beans & The Myth of Artistic Poverty
Poverty paralyses art. It doesn’t inspire. It murders. For twenty months, while my life was fat with “material” (running away from domestic abuse with a freshly-two year-old), it was thin on cash. As the months went by, the rent went up, the flexible hours vanished and the hope of ever getting a mortgage and stable…
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A bad writer…
Before you leap in, protesting, writing letters to the Queen, setting up Change.org petitions, I’ll say I don’t mean I’m a bad writer….just an appalling blog writer. Phew. The country heaved a sigh and put down its quills. On the 1001 excuses list, the top one is I’ve been writing. Loads. All of it (fanfare)…
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A quantum of an update
Just a very quick cheat of a posting: click here for the first update for supporters of the quantum play. News on our support from Old Vic New Voices Lab, how we beat the fundraising target by 25%, a piece in Arts Professional on what not to do and the skinny on this month’s big…
Gill Kirk, writer 