What I Hope to Achieve in 2010 - Five Things

Now here! Listen. These are the achievable things I WILL nail in this brand new shiny year.

1: Keep up with and finish the novel by September 2010, when it'll be due in for Uni assessment.

2: Analyse and break down novels and scripts to gain a better understanding of the processes.

3: Keep writing scripts.

4: Enter a few scriptwriting competitions and short story competitions to keep my hand in. You've got to be in it to win it, as they so rightly say.

5: Make myself pick up that pen every day, or tinker at the p.c. and write words every single day.

There you have it. Five things isn't over-facing. I think I may be able to stomach it. :-)

Blog TakeOver - Who, Me? I Live Here Don't I??

I'm a character out of Antonia's book, but I'm sure I existed and lived here before her anyway.

My name is Joe. I'm blonde, with a hint of strawberry - shaggy hair, blue eyes, icy if you must know, and a mouth that doesn't turn down too much at the corners despite being thin.

I laugh a lot, am a wiry, lanky twenty-nine year old with a passion for Lowry paintings. Antonia reckons I like to think I'm Lowry, but I don't, I just like to think I can paint like him.

See, I never was good for much at school; I could draw, but only stick-like fashion, and sketches that created childish scenes. Then I discovered Lowry and saw that he'd made stick-drawing fashionable. So I practised didn't I? I practised all the time, until I made those stick figures a bit livelier, yes, with personalities of their own, even though their features became muted and bland and sometimes even featureless, yet retaining a semblance of a self.

I learnt how to draw a group of people so that it looked like they were one, and busy, and industrial or poignant in some way.

So, I aint the ghost of Lowry, see. I could paint you, Antonia, and fashion you into stick and merge you with a crowd like a giant colourful mural; you could be on a street somewhere in the north, tiny red hat perched on your head, brown woollen coat clutched about you, lacy red brolly perched on the end of a slim, bony wrist.

What? You are doing that right now?

See, I told you I lived here. It was me that made YOU!

Happy New Year!

Best wishes for 2010. Art by Georgia.

I'm writing this now, because I won't see a pc until 1st Jan over on the other side. I'll write a list of 2009 Year Out achievements and 2010 Year In Goals, as soon as I can.

Mwah!

Blog Takeover Day x Two

Remember the last Blog Takeover Day? Miss Havisham paid a visit.

BLOG TAKEOVER X ONE LINK HERE

See older posts for more.

Well it starts again on 1st January 2010. You can choose whoever you like to take over your Blog for the day, could be a character of yours, a famous character, or just anyone real or fictional.

If you can't start on the 1st, don't worry, start whenever you like.


For more info see Quiller's Place.

LINK HERE TO QUILLER'S PLACE

Twitter Play - Actress Kiki Kendrick Plays The Character I Wrote!

Remember the Twitter radio play? Here's a reminder of when it all kicked off:

LINK TO MY PREVIOUS TWITTER PLAY BLOG POST.

Kiki Kendrick plays @fragharpy, or Francine Harpur when she aint Tweeting. They've recorded ALL of @fragharpy's tweets, and now on to the next four characters.

LINK TO KIKI KENDRICK'S WEBSITE.

Update here:

LINK TO RFM PLAY BLOG.

WOW!

Happy Christmas!!

I'd just like to wish everyone a Happy Christmas, and a Wonderful New Year 2010.

Hope you all get what you want from Santa. Eat drink and be merry!! May your stockings be full, and your bellies without griping pains.

Have your name immortalised in print by Kate Long

Read all about this fantastic charity: The Quintessentially Foundation supports charitable activity worldwide that improves the health, education and welfare of disadvantaged communities...LINK HERE


Novelist, Kate Long (writer of The Bad Mother's Handbook and more) will immortalise your name in her next novel. You need to be in it to win it, so go do your BIDDING!

BID HERE ON E BAY

Kate Long's Website: LINK HERE