Will write for food!
At a very early age I told my first story. As it involved why I wasn't responsible for the mess in the kitchen in an attempt to pass blame onto an alien green cat from next door, it can't be taken as indicative of my later successes. Yet I have thrived on telling stories ever since.
To me, the English language is a thing of beauty; sentence construction an art form, grammar worth fighting wars over and incorrect punctuation a capital offence.
Welcome to my online space. Wipe your feet on the mat. Help yourself to a drink, but please use a coaster. Here, I can showcase some of my professional and amateur work, promote my ideas and brain-dump all the weirdness out of my head and into the blog.
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CopyWrite: Recent Entries
- Capital punishment: why using random capitals is a crime!
Agh - few things annoy my linguistic sensibilities more than random capitalisation. Sure, misplaced apostrophes are probably a greater grammatical blot on the language landscape, but the capitalisation of words is more irritating because of its intentional nature.I'm currently editing and rewriting the copy on a massive IT website and still come across examples of nail-on-blackboard level irritation.
…- Comedy as art
Comedy writing has always had a harder time finding legitimacy than other forms - television comedy even more so. Different writing genres have always been prone to elitism and arbitrary labels of legitimacy or triviality, which seems a mite unfair when we look for genuine artistry.
…- Why I won't watch "white poster" films
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When choosing movies to see, I have one rule - no 'white poster movies'. What is a white poster movie, I hear you ask? Quite simply, they are movies where the poster says absolutely nothing about what you're invited to see, opting instead for a major shot of the big drawcard celeb(s) instead. White posters betray that the prime selling point for a film is the name actor and not the abysmal script or shoddy direction.
