State of play
Posted 23 April 09 by Scott AndrewsOperation Motherland has gone to press and should be out soon. One nice thing is that it will be in a slightly larger format than School’s Out, and it’ll have my name on the spine. Fame at last!
I actually squeed at my own stuff yesterday, when I noticed it’s on the back cover of 2000AD. Now all I’ve got to do is infiltrate the comic itself, and then the world will be mine. Oh yes.
Am in negotiations for a couple of things – a couple of novels and a short story – that I can’t talk about yet, but things are looking good on that front.
I’m also moving back into writing features. I used to write for magazines like Starburst and Film Review, but with magazines dying a death I’ve unexpectedly found a second wind writing similar pieces for websites such as IGN and Rotten Tomatoes. I’ll post links when they go live. I’ve even had my first authored piece on BBC News online this week, which is a nice credit to have.
But writing, while fun and what I hope one day to make most of my living from, can’t pay the bills. In my 9-5 life I’m surfing the very edge of the Credit Crunch wave, hopping from surfboard to surfboard, seemingly always one second away from wiping out.
Tough times. And stressful – my blood pressure is so high that if you were to prick me with a pin I fancy I’d pop like a balloon. Messy. But if you were to film it and then play it back in slo-mo, at the very least worthy of a post on Boing Boing. So that’d be something.
Plus, it increases the chance that I’ll have a heart attack from excitement when I finally get to see Star Trek, which most of my friends have already seen and pronounced awesome.
On which note, did you see this week’s 24? Tony Almeida killed off that nice FBI guy! Who the f**k saw that coming!? Genuinely gob smacking, and coming after Jack’s tearful and surprisingly moving reunion with Kim, which managed to take a terribly irritating character and redeem her in one scene, I think it was possibly 24’s best ever episode. What were the odds of that happening in season seven, especially after the train wreck of season six?
Meanwhile The Unit seems to be struggling. It’s moved from episode of the week into ongoing storylines but it doesn’t seem to have the budget or confidence to really pull it off, leaving the show oddly unsatisfying. Main issue: the wives are put into witness protection because they were filmed by terrorists. So where do they hide the women? In the community of the head terrorist, whose life they are expected to infiltrate as spies. Um… logic? It seems like a show that prided itself on it’s reality based drama has lurched awkwardly into spy show melodrama. Not good.
(Yes, I know, no-one who defends 24 should criticise any other show for being illogical, but they’re different beasts.)
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