Certainly not. Unless you're keen on the type of romantic comedies Channel 5 might show at lunchtime. The one I'm working on at the moment is for a French broadcaster.tin_robot wrote:Wow - anything we might have seen?Scout wrote:I've been scratching a living the past couple of years writing Hallmark style family-friendly rom-coms.I can't read that from work, but looking forward to sitting down with a cup of tea and reading tonight. Hopefully it's the first of many.JonB wrote:My freelance games writing is now earning me a living at Cyprus living cost standards, although nothing like what I'd need to come back to the UK. Bit of a milestone today in that I finally got something published in Eurogamer: https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2022-01-27-the-rise-of-taiwans-indie-scene-and-why-it-deserves-our-attention
Scout wrote:Certainly not. Unless you're keen on the type of romantic comedies Channel 5 might show at lunchtime. The one I'm working on at the moment is for a French broadcaster.tin_robot wrote:Wow - anything we might have seen?Scout wrote:I've been scratching a living the past couple of years writing Hallmark style family-friendly rom-coms.I can't read that from work, but looking forward to sitting down with a cup of tea and reading tonight. Hopefully it's the first of many.JonB wrote:My freelance games writing is now earning me a living at Cyprus living cost standards, although nothing like what I'd need to come back to the UK. Bit of a milestone today in that I finally got something published in Eurogamer: https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2022-01-27-the-rise-of-taiwans-indie-scene-and-why-it-deserves-our-attention
Scout wrote:@tin Creatively it's not exactly what I want to be doing but I've got absolutely no complaints as it's paid writing work and I need all I can get. It's also fantastically refreshing in many ways compared to the 'proper' projects I've got on the go. I have 2 films in development at the moment. One of them has been on the go for 12 years (I shit you not) and the other for around 8 years. My main TV project has been in development at the BBC for a few years now. After an enormous amount of work over the last two years we got a 'maybe' yesterday. So it's back into the development cycle with that one. Conversely with the rom-com stuff it's lightning fast. This new one I'm working on will take around 6 months from the point of commission then it goes straight into production. So it's a real breath of fresh air in that respect.
Paul the sparky wrote:Conform or die
I mean, clearly it's an attack on radicalism, claiming movements for social change are always rudderless and mindlessly populist. It leaves no room for the possibility of a genuine mass organisation of rodents towards progressive ideals. I didn't have you down as a There Is No Alternative zealot, Mike. Is there nothing in your ideology between conformity and genocide?Minnesänger wrote:I think that's a distinctly uncharitable read - it's just as likely to be a rumination on the dangers of placing people onto a pedestal and deifying them as some messianic figure by virtue of them being different or in opposition to the status quo. This is how we got Aung San Suu Kyi. Can't believe Jon literally supports genocide.
JonB wrote:Is there nothing in your ideology between conformity and genocide? Mice of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your cheese!
hylian_elf wrote:I certainly hope no-one supports the genocide (ethnic cleansing) of the Rohnigyas, which Aung San Suu Kyi defended.
Diluted Dante wrote:Hello people. My Grandad wrote a whole bunch of short stories in the late 80's/early 90's, but they've been out of print for nearly 20 years now. If you're around my age you may have read some, or used some of his textbooks. I would like to get them republished, but I'm not sure if they perhaps need some slight editing. They were written for Primary school ages, but maybe the language used it a bit outdated in places.
Could some of you give a read over a couple of the stories, and if any of you have kids see what they think of them?
Wondermouse and Other Stories is on the Internet Archive, and I'll post a couple of them from it below. If anyone can give some feedback it would be most appreciated.
Wondermouse
The Filthy Stranger
Moot_Geeza wrote:I tried the app but viewing seems restricted to one or two pages. Tilly reckons she'll read/review these if you can get me the full text.
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