Category: Writing


Crediting sources and copying content

Friday 5 October 2007 | Internet : Writing | Comments (1)

This afternoon I found an interesting story on a games site which had an interview with the Director who was to be filming Halo, Neil Blomkamp. The site was Joystiq, who pointed to a site called Creativity Online who had the interview. It was a really interesting interview that talked...

Formula 1 2007 season preview and more writing

Sunday 4 February 2007 | Motorsport : Writing | Comments (3)

My first story has appeared on Bits of News about the coming Formula 1 season. I'm going to be doing a bit of writing over there too, some Formula 1, some general stuff. As an example my next write up is hopefully going to be on the recent climate change...

Working on Filmstalker

Wednesday 26 April 2006 | Blogging : Moans : Movies : Writing | Comments (4)

That's my life at the moment. When I'm not working, I'm living and breathing Filmstalker, and do you know what? I'm loving it. This weekend I just survived Dead by Dawn, the Horror Film Festival in Edinburgh that is running into its thirteenth year, and doing superbly well as it...

Arrogance on the Internet: Crediting sources, self promotion and respect

Thursday 6 April 2006 | Blogging : Internet : Moans : Writing | Comments (4)

I'm angry at a number of specific people as well as a genre, shall we say, of Internet users for the continuing arrogance and abuse of content, authors rights, and people in general. It seems that with the use of the Internet something is forgotten, common decency, respect, the following...

Filmstalker - My return to film writing

Tuesday 14 March 2006 | Blogging : Movies : Writing | Comments (5)

Some of you will be aware that in late February, after some one and a half years writing for The Movie Blog (as well as being in three audio editions!) I suddenly disappeared. However, I am finally back and have my own site to talk about and discuss Film news,...

Movie Blog wins award

Sunday 8 January 2006 | Blogging : Movies : Writing | Comments (5)

This is a great finish for 2005 for me, news that The Movie Blog has won a readers Blog Award for the Best Movies Blog. That, for those of you slow on the uptake, is a an award voted for by people who read the InterWeb and our site, and...

Movie writing and the EIFF

Tuesday 9 August 2005 | EIFF 2005 : Writing | Comments (2)

I'm excited today as my writing takes another step forward. There have been a number of big leaps for me so far, firstly there's been writing for The Movie Blog and watching the monthly visits grow from 300,000 to 800,000. Then there was getting approved as Press in the Edinburgh...

My first press screening and writing

Saturday 14 May 2005 | Writing | Comments (2)

This friday I attended my first press screening courtesy of Craig, the manager at the Vue Cinema, and what a screening it was to start off with, Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, and it was superb....

MovieBlog writing

Friday 26 November 2004 | Writing | Comments (0)

I'm really enjoying writing for the MovieBlog, and I'm finding I'm spending more and more time over there writing instead of on here doing things! Still, not only is it rewarding and most enjoyable writing about something you have such a passion and interest in, but it does bring some...

Dicky Spillbrain and the History of the World Part II

Sunday 3 October 2004 | Writing | Comments (0)

I was sorting through one of the unemptied boxes in the spare room this morning, fuelled by the desire to dig out all my slides and negatives and develop all my photographs, when I came across some of my writing books. I kept all these to write my latest poetry,...

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