Why are you up anyway, Tim? You aren't working on that script which appears to be finally finished at 2am every morning are you?
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Quote: Ben @ October 20 2009, 1:53 AM BSTWhy are you up anyway, Tim? You aren't working on that script which appears to be finally finished at 2am every morning are you?
Cheeky c**t.
It has been finished for a good few days now. It is now going through a final edit (in order to cut it down to a submission length. Which is proving to be a bastard. I might just have to call it a "comedy-drama" and f**k getting it to fit into half and hour. 
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Get your feet off the seat, you bad man! 
I finally finished my first draft of what I'm working on...I feel a great sense of accomplishment.
Congrats, Andie. This has been the toughest I've ever found it to write a pilot. I'd like to think that means it will be really good, but I'm not so sure. 
What's your one about/for? 
Well, it turned out to be more of an hour long pilot, rather than being sitcom length. I was rather disappointed at first, but once I got over myself it practically wrote itself. The entire premise of the show is something I saw while having a chemo infusion one day. A stupid little thing that only I would notice, but it really stuck with me and I think it could work. Being a woman, is that vague enough?
Quote: AndreaLynne @ October 20 2009, 2:08 AM BSTWell, it turned out to be more of an hour long pilot, rather than being sitcom length. I was rather disappointed at first, but once I got over myself it practically wrote itself. The entire premise of the show is something I saw while having a chemo infusion one day. A stupid little thing that only I would notice, but it really stuck with me and I think it could work. Being a woman, is that vague enough?
It's the stupid little things you notice or think that usually produce the best material, isn't it? It's certainly vague enough. Then again, I am absolutely hopeless at describing/pitching an idea. The only way I can put across what something is about is by writing the bloody script and handing it over. (I'm learning to get a bit better at this though. Just I find it embarrassing talking about my stuff in a serious way. I've learnt from meetings that you have to do this though, even with comedy.)
Any plans for your script yet?
Well, I first have to get up the gumption to send it out. To where? I'm not sure. I don't think it will be here. It's not a 24 episode idea. Maybe 8.
God knows where you send things in the US. Are there writers websites where you can get some clues?
Yeah, but there's so many phonies. I'm really leaning on sending it your way. Just got to figure out to whom and when.
It's really a story about reinventing yourself when nobody else wants you to. Kind of like what has happened with me.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ October 20 2009, 12:54 AM BSTI also got to shake hands with Ben, David Bussell, Matt Stott, Huge Bear and Jane P - which was okay, but not as exciting.
I was going to go along too (just to meet Jane P mind ) but knew I'd be too tired after a long day.
Your long student day?
Ben is considering doing the 'in thing' round here by getting some Eastern European's to valet his car.
Quote: zooo @ October 19 2009, 9:20 PM BSTDon't listen to Aaron, Milton Keynes is very much in the south.
Is 45 mins away from London though, so he's right that it's not London. It's in lovely Buckinghamshire. (A very nice county to live in.)
I think of Milton Keynes as the outer extremity of the south, and I speak as someone who lives on the south coast. People there largely speak with a southern accent. Just up the road in Northampton, the accent changes.
Quote: Ben @ October 20 2009, 9:03 AM BSTYour long student day?
Until 5pm, plus being a mum (getting my child breakfast, washed and dressed and the school run) and travelling across London.
I've never had a child breakfast. I imagine they're nice with eggs benedict.