On Set Photo Fun

One of the delights of writing scripts for Badshoes Film is seeing on set photos come in. I (and, I imagine, my scribble-partner Lucy Wade) sit there trying to decipher what’s what, who’s playing what character, what’s been kept, cut, modified or improved upon. You know that squee you get from seeing teaser photos of […]

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A Game Of 777

So I got tagged in a game of 777 by the wonderful Teresa Edgerton, fantasy author supreme, out on Twitter. The idea is you pick seven lines from the seventh page of your current work in progress. Here goes: Hargy wouldn’t pee himself. He wouldn’t let them see him piss himself. They walked past the […]

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George Orwell: “Anyone who knows of an instance of colour discrimination ought always to expose it”

Managed to find this fascinating and rarely shown column by George Orwell from 11 of August, 1944, in the Tribune (His column was called ‘As I Please’, and he often did). I reproduce it here because it’s a side of George you may not have seen, directly challenging the racist practices of his time. Next […]

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