Excuses #0001

You see the kind of temptations I have to face down? That's ZONE OF THE ENDERS - THE 2nd RUNNER, Hideo Kojima's ultra-rare (in Europe) PS2 anime neon glowing mech annihilation crunchy lovely brain fizz instant reward disjointed sentence inducing prize of eBay fresh on my doormat this morning. And I have a flatpack bookcase to assemble.

I had stuff to cover this week so I'm determined to update now, but it's fairly clear what the rest of my off-shift window is going to consist of. Forgive me my weakness o brothers. Forgive me.

Right -

First, thanks for all the words of encouragement - they are much appreciated. I'm already in the Scriptdroids Yahoo! group  and just bought FUTUREQUAKE #10 (so more on that another time) and Dave Evans from FUTUREQUAKE sent me a nice good luck note with it which is now adorning the wall by the monitor to remind me what I'm supposed to be doing. Cheers Dave - that's excellent because I can now feel like I'm somehow peripherally connected to the small press scene without actually having done any work yet. I love the internet.

Future Shocks then. I thought I should try to create some kind of writing checklist to help me figure out the bastards, and I hope Robert McKee doesn't mind me paraphrasing some of his STORY techniques to do it. Even if he does mind, if his lawyers find this blog at least he might sort that Vader quote out. That's what's next. I'll try to do it tonight.