Bigger is Better

A belated Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to y'all! Like nearly everyone else, I've taken a little break from blogging to do... well, very little indeed, myself. Okay, I've watched a lot of films and TV as one would expect, and that's been particularly good for one very silly reason. Christmas is a time for excess, so I got my dad to borrow a projector from work over the holidays and watched all manner of things on a massive white wall in my room. The novelty wore off after a while, but it was still fun having my own little cinema.

Now, because I've not been particularly busy post-Christmas, I've found that I've had too much to blog about. Probably because not doing much gives me too much time to think, and then I want to express those thoughts on 'ere. More for my own benefit, I think, than really to share them with you, because it helps me clarify it all in my own head.

But none of that for now, because I'm going to do a slightly less formal post about Christmas and New Year, and then get back onto topic with a large set of Mini-Reviews later in the week. Crazy. Oh, and I'm saving all the big Doctor Who stuff for its own post - 'cause I can, and you can't stop me!

Santa was good this year, as along with money and chocolate I got the following DVDs: Wall-E, The Austin Powers Boxset, Coupling Series Boxset, The Arrested Development Boxsets, and the Extended Lord of the Rings Boxset. The last one was partly given to me because I once said something along the lines of "I'm beginning to think I don't like LOTR any more", and I believe that person may have wanted me to take that back. Okay; I take it back. And 'cause I didn't get The Dark Knight, I went and bought it for myself.

In-between all the visual-indulgence that fits the season, I've used this opportunity to meet up with all my Edinburgh friends to its full extent. This included visiting Woolworths on its last day and getting myself 12 Terry's Chocolate Oranges for £3. Well, not just for me; I shared them. But when everything is 90% off, one just goes mad. One of my friends got Futurama Series Three for £3.50 instead of £35!

Okay, time for something relevant: Richard's Assignment. I've been trying out different things to get myself writing, and it's certainly proving a little bit of a challenge for me. Not the actual writing, but coming up with the missing elements. In my one-on-one, Richard and I discussed the main issue with my script: it had no 2nd-Act. No middle. It went Equilibrium > Inciting Incident > Dénouement. I think this could be because it had a sort of punch-line quality, and we both noted this isn't too strange in short short-films, but the exercise is to try writing in the structure we've been talking about. So I'm still developing it, in honesty, but I'm confident that the more effort I put into working it all out before I write it means that there will be less to iron-out once I've written it. My self-enforced deadline of tomorrow evening should help, too.

Well, that's enough nonsense for now. Expect more soon!