Loop the loop

So I went to see the new Tim Burton/Johnny Depp film "Dark Shadows." A Tim Burton film you expect it to be highly wacky, but this was out of this world. All I can say is I hope my mind isn't that screwed up. If it is I hope it can be brought back from the brink.

My mind does do loop the loops, stuck as if on constant, rewind and replay. Awake or as part of my subconscious. Can dreams be real?

Helena Bonham-Carter was good as the nutty counsellor. Preferred her as Bellatrix Lestrange, but I think if I ever write a female baddie, she would have to play her. So Helena if you're ever short of work, call me.

Welcome Break

So I've taken a break this weekend. My friend came over and we had a catch up a beer or two. I actually got the characters I've lived with for the best part of 9 years out of my head. So do I self-publish or not? That's still the question.

I have so many questions, it's ridiculous.

Several Choices

So I'm trying to decide what the best way is for someone to make a dramatic exit from a story. Don't worry I haven't turned homicidal, I just don't know which one is best. So here goes
(a) Stabbed
(b) Shot
(c) Pushed from a bridge

All votes will be counted.

Epic Dramatic Death Scenes

So I went to the cinema today and watched The Lucky One, starring Zac Efron. So most of it was a pretty standard romantic story blah, blah, blah. However I particularly enjoyed the dramatic death scene of the "asshole" former partner of the main love interest. Involving a bridge and lots of water.

Now this wouldn't have been of interest to me, except I'm about to write a death scene in my latest story, so this is of interest to me, I need a dramatic exit. Given a load of ideas. Watch this space...

Book 4

So Book 4 is already on the go. Why I hear you ask when there isn't officially a Book 1 in the series yet. Well it is a series and I need to keep my hand in, keep the characters fresh in my mind. So I was thinking if Plan A fails, I might script them and submit them to the BBC. Ambitious? Me of course. Who'd want to make a drama out of something little old me wrote.

Well in case you didn't already know, I learned script writing from the playwrite Euan Rose, who is rather successful in his own right, so I could see if I could get him involved. Cheat I don't think!

Good or Bad?

So the postman arrives and this morning there's a rather large package for me from Brighton, that can only be from the publishers, its the only people I know who would write to me from that area. So suddenly I'm nervous. A rejection letter would be better than nothing right? Don't aim too high, but no it's a load of stuff they've sent me about themselves and their back catalogue. The only reason I would want that is if "End Game was going to be included. But so far I'm yet to see it.

Is it a good thing or a bad thing that I've heard nothing? Though I do tell myself they've only had 4 days to assess it.

Waiting game

So I finally bit the bullet, so to speak and sent my book off to a publisher. The Book Guild. So I'm nowhere near arrogant enough to think they'll accept it. I'm not the JK Rowling or James Patterson of the crime world, but won't James Patterson be pleased to know I idolise him?

Its currently being considered and I may or may not hear something back, but this is all I've wanted to do since I was 6, so to keep the dream alive I will carry on going whatever the outcome.

The message to all us budding authors out there is if you're proud of your "masterpiece", then you should plug it and believe in it, because no one else will.