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The Writer's Handbook 2011

I've never got one of these books before and I was in the White Rose on another interview with The Disney Store when I wandered into WHSmiths and bought it.

And now, I'm ashamed to say that without these books, I don't know how the hell I've been able to cope!

I stayed up reading through the magazine section for a good hour last night, jotting down which magazines I should email for future publications, and I didn't even make it to the end of the section!

It's earned it's very fair right to sit on my bedside table for some light reading and inspiration...

I can't wait to read about some of the festivals that are going to be around the UK in the coming months.

I strongly advise all writers, serious or not, should get this book.

:)

TV or Film?

In my second year of uni, I 'found' Kerry Rawlinds, a career-driven young 25-year old, with an equally career-driven father and a wickedly vicious mother. Funnily enough, she, by far, wasn't the most popular character in a workshop with my other peers in class. Her parents are divorced and her mother is with a ridiculously kind young man called Martin, an apt Clark Kent. So I can only assume that while the women in the class simply adored him, the men were notoriously jealous of his good-nature and gentle suaveness.

:)

Anyway, the last couple of days, I have been developing her story into what was initially going to be a 'This Is England'/'Cashback'/any-other-really-good-British-Drama-you-can-think-of style 90min film. However, I am 30pages in on Final Draft and my crucial hook hasn't happened yet - other film writers will know that in stereotypical terms, your hook should occur 15-20mins from the beginning of the film.

So, I've been thinking about maybe extending it to a four-part series, 60mins each way and am now wondering if the BBC or ITV or even Channel 4 would care to get their hands on it.

Who knows?

All I know is that it's all I can write at the moment, and I need to be writing something!

Mmmm. Tricky...

xXx

EMPLOYMENT!

It's been a long time coming but...

I'm officially the proudest employee of THE DISNEY STORE in White Rose Shopping Centre!

:D

Happy days!

It's only 8-16 hours a week and Christmas Temp so by January I may very well be unemployed again...

But SCREW IT!

:)

It's The Disney Store!!

Yaaaaaaaay!

Second Interview: Aldi

What a surprise.

After not being able to utter a word in my group interview with Aldi due to the other women hogging all the limelight..

THE WOMAN HAS RUNG ME BACK REGARDLESS AND ASKED ME TO SEE HER AGAIN ON SUNDAY FOR A SECOND INTERVIEW!!!

Good loooooord.

Somethings finally going right in the world.

:)

Job Interview: Disney Store

One of the most wonderful phonecalls that I've ever recieved in my life was from a gentleman at the Disney Store in the White Rose Centre, asking me if I could attend an interview.

There is a God in the world.

So I toodled over yesterday and after the disastrous group interview that was Aldi the other week (I was in a group where we were all chatty cows but I was the unlucky bugger who couldn't get a word in edgeways), I vowed that I would make myself stand out amongst the others in that Disney-fied canteen.

First things first, we were interviewed by two girls and for sure, one of them, at least, was looking at me the most whenever she was talking.

We talked about moments that inspired us the most in the last year, why we're currently looking for work and why we handed our CV into the Disney Store in the first place.

But, by far, the best question to finish the day was "Who is your favourite Disney character and why?"

Now, up until a year ago, I wouldn't have been able to pick, because I watch so many of them. But one boring night of uni, me and my housemate opened a bottle of wine, was watching 'The Little Mermaid' when my said friend, lightweight to the core and already slurring a little, said, "Oh my god, Laurie, you are sooooo Sebastian." Now, it's not everyday that you get compared to a small Jamaican lobster of a man who's a suck up, snitch and a bit of an all-round arse. But from that moment, now I can't think about the little crustacean without laughing my socks off.

So, I stunned them with my nerdiness about the Disney store, I smiled a lot and gave a quirky and original favourite character (all the other girls said ones from Winnie The Pooh!).

I hope they ring me back.

:)

This Is England '86

In the space of 18 hours, I've sat and watched all of the new four-part Drama 'This Is England '86', a continuance from the 2006 film, 'This Is England'.

And boy, was that shocking.

Not for the faint-hearted, I know that only a couple of my friends would choose to watch it as well. My mum loves this stuff, but even she was spazzing out a bit at some of the brutal scenes at the end of each episode.

But one thing's for sure, the cinematography in these films is BEAUTIFUL. I've watched some beautiful films and these episodes are surely part of them. Main character Lol - I would bonk her if I was mildly intoxicated. Eli from Emmerdale, what more can you want? And more cast members with cheeky names such as Gadget, Meggy, Smell, Trev and, my personal favourite, Milky.

The harrowing piano notes through the scene where the 'skinheads' are surrounding their old, heart-attack prone friend at the hospital are, quite simply, beautiful. If they release the soundtrack and that song is on there, I'm bloody buying it.

I just wish I had the money and resources to film my own harrowing British drama that everyone would love.

:)

P.S. I want Lol's airwears and I want Trev's hair.

You've gotta watch it.