Agent 99 - Online story telling

I have knocked together a quick wordpress site for My Inner Orc, which looks set for an October outing in London (Hooray!).

http://myinnerorc.com

Under three headings.... Writing, Web and... The Studio.

Writing

Every year I look back at a list I keep in the front of my current notebook - a cryptic list of titles of projects - and see how many I have moved forward.

This year I have moved 4 out of 8 things forward. The bad news is that 'forward' in this year is another year of no productions. However I don't want to be too harsh on myself (what's the point of that?) so lets look at the good things....

I've been playing around with some images to submit to a web series call - and yes they wanted support material. Click the attachment link below to see a composite...

Tagline: When an oil rig drills deep into her heart Mother Nature decides to fight back...

Second draft report

Phew - made it to the end of the second draft of Bitch (only 7 to go then?!).

I am aware that I have been a little quiet of late, so thought I would share a bit of what's going on...

Twitter

So I went on holiday about 6 weeks ago and when I got back just didn't seem to be using twitter anymore. Hmmmm, weird, since I really like it. While I was away I decided I would be doing a lot more cycling in the Autumn and have been doing about three rides a week. This inevitably eats into my writing and making money time so Twitter has suffered as I sit down and stick to it.

Twelvepoint.com

Just back from holiday with thoughts of getting some more direction into my writing - so here's a self-check in on where all my various projects are. A bit navel-gazey perhaps, but believe me looking at my navel here is much better than doing it in the flesh :-)

Great things:

Boy on a Bike (started 2004, three drafts, feature drama)

A coming of age story set in NZ 1980. Has producer and a director attached. Can't name names but it's all looking fucking great at the moment. Applying soon to get money out of the NZ Film Commission for a new draft now director has come on board.

I think that was about six weeks flat... And actually that was about five weeks too much as it happens. Last Friday I resigned and today (Monday) I am sitting at home waiting for them to ring me about how to play out my last week. Hopefully they will just leave me alone, but I suspect I will have to do a couple of days work from home to tidy up some loose ends.

A very surreal hour and half today in the Piccadilly office of the Bond producer (EON). I was there on a mission with Julian from Script Writer Magazone to enthuse them about our new website project.

I thought we were going in to talk about membership but we ended up brain-storming a (very good) idea for new content which I am sure we will get to in due course.

But it really was like pitching to a big producer - it didn’t matter that we were talking about writer development, it was still a pitch:

• Pitch idea

After just over three years as the web guy at the Medical Research Council I am moving on up... well actually my job title shounds less impressive as I am going to be a 'Junior Consustant'. But being a junior consultant at a young and happening eCommerce Consultancy in Covent Garden is quite a bit better paid than being a 'manager' in the public service.

A book I picked up recently is Seth Godin's ‘The Dip’. If you don't know Godin he's a bit of a god in marketing circles (boom boom) and writes a lot of clever books that are getting shorter and shorter and better and better. His books are mostly about current marketing tropes, and it would be fair to say that he has invented a fair few of them. But 'The Dip' is a little different.