Getting Back On The Horse
I've been away from the keyboard for a while due to family things. I was lacking in inspiration and I had no idea where to start.
So when an e-mail popped up asking me to meet with a producer to discuss feature film ideas, I thought this might be a good water-testing exercise. Get the creative juices flowing again. He gave me a location brief and I threw together a handful of ideas, condensed them into loglines and character sketches, and set off to London Waterloo for coffee.
I come out of that meeting feeling positive. One of the ideas was adapted from an old story that had been brewing for a while but I hadn't found a way to make it work. It had been set aside for a number of months, occasionally pulled out for inspection, and then returned to the virtual drawer.
Said producer was also enthusiastic about my percolated idea and, before I knew what was happening, I had...