Excitement at Wordmonger Towers! There's a faint, faint chance of some more TV animation work - my first love and original calling.
How has this potential wonder potentially come about? Because I have an agent again. As of the middle of last year, this marvellous person has been shoving my dusty TV writing credits under people's noses and is starting to get some sneezes of interest.
So - agents. Good things, clearly, especially when they're as patient and hard-working as mine.
Why, then, do we always see them portrayed as monsters on TV and in books? Joey's agent in Friends, Frasier's agent in Frasier, Rob Long's agent in Conversations with my Agent (read it; this is an order) - all ghastly beyond all measure, but why? Is Hollywood crammed with self-destructive ingrates? Yes, I know, but I mean specifically on this issue.
Is it that they make writers think about money? That they take a commission? That no gig ever goes perfectly and we blame the person who set us up with it?
I dunno. All I can say is that I shall be working like a dog on my pitch tomorrow, not least to repay the hard work put in by the Steadfast Agent. Nice woman, I shan't tell you who she is or you'll all be trying to sign up with her.
Wednesday 1 June 2011
Fear the Void!
Well, dearly beloved, it's been a while, hasn't it? What with family visits and deadlines and, you know, not having anything worthwhile to muse about...
But here's a writer's topic if ever there was one: writer's block. I don't suffer this myself, perhaps because I rarely stray into the realms of High Art, but I do find myself - as this morning - struck down with Blank Page Panic.
It's a hard one to explain. Partly it's down to the usual writer's problem of wanting to do anything - anything - rather than actually write, but there is a definite drawing in of breath before you hit the first key. Even if you know where you're headed with the piece, even if you had the first five paragraphs all blocked out in your head ages ago...when it comes to actually putting things down on paper, confidence ebbs.
Do you get this? I'd love to know how you feel when confronted with a blank page? Worse still, do you get writer's block - or do you even believe in it?
I'll leave you to mull the issue over; I've got to write this script.
Well, as soon as I've finished this cup of coffee...
But here's a writer's topic if ever there was one: writer's block. I don't suffer this myself, perhaps because I rarely stray into the realms of High Art, but I do find myself - as this morning - struck down with Blank Page Panic.
It's a hard one to explain. Partly it's down to the usual writer's problem of wanting to do anything - anything - rather than actually write, but there is a definite drawing in of breath before you hit the first key. Even if you know where you're headed with the piece, even if you had the first five paragraphs all blocked out in your head ages ago...when it comes to actually putting things down on paper, confidence ebbs.
Do you get this? I'd love to know how you feel when confronted with a blank page? Worse still, do you get writer's block - or do you even believe in it?
I'll leave you to mull the issue over; I've got to write this script.
Well, as soon as I've finished this cup of coffee...
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