this is really extraordinary and it contains all of those things about guitar delta blues that seemed to be missed especially by white imitators: the approach to meter is as weird and complex as j dilla, and the approach to harmony so divorced from western hegemony as to sound avant garde
Three months on: I've written a a feature, am about to finish a detailed outline on another, and I'm developing three more. I've also written a pilot episode for a creepy audio drama.
"I'm as serious as cancer when I say rhythm is a dancer"
Recreate your own Artemis splashdown with three Tunnocks teacakes and a Nespresso pod
I read a comment on Reddit the other day that really unnerved me. It felt like a moment.
The same day I was talking to a friend who mentioned an actor she'd really like to work with. And he could play the the perfect character to be in that moment.
And suddenly we've got the seed for a movie idea.
Still shot from short film The Sin-Eater
Still shot from short film The Sin-Eater
Still shot from short film The Sin-Eater
Still shot from short film The Sin-Eater
So you can imagine how awesome it was when I wrote a short and @kellydirector.bsky.social made it look like this:
Landscape painting of mid/north Wales, unknown painter
Painting: The Way to the Cottages by Kyffin Williams
Painting: Salem by Sydney Curnow Vosper
Painting: Soar y Mynydd by Ogwyn Davies
Love me a bit of Welsh rural gothic.
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Hah - same!
I've been doing more and more script editing lately for other writers so I've been putting some formal structures in place through my website. Say hi to Hughes Scriptworks! www.jonathanhughes.ie/hughesscriptworks
Hope they go to Benidorm!
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I use Tidal - they pay a much better rate and I love the music.
The time I met a woman but didn't pursue a relationship with her. And then four years later we met again and I realised she was my soulmate.
From my perspective it's the podcasts that are evil!
"You must break through the fog of lies the podcasters create around podcasting. Let me help you to know the subtleties of not-having-a-podcast."
It fled to the east - sunny day in Llani.
This is fucking annoying. I worked an an interviewer for five years: they do an amazing job in difficult circumstances, gathering the data that government needs to function. There's enough suspicion and mistrust on the doorstep as it is without this bollocks.
#ONS
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
Love the fact that you can understand Gaelic. That's years' worth of lessons and Duolingo right there
One of the things I love about the old languages is the enthusiasm and love among its speakers. Welsh isn't spoken that much in our town but twenty miles west things get poetic.
It's also got the friendliest squirrels in the world in my experience.
You're probably going to do try this, but just in case: I'm a big fan of universities and language societies in this kind of situation. When we made The Sin-Eater we got a killer translation of our Welsh dialogue from Aberystwyth University.
The 2026 Barkley Marathons is over. There are no finishers. #BM100
Hmmm ... dal for dinner tonight methinks.
Thank you! I try - I love the sense of inspiration I get from them guess, they are all achievable (apart from L&H of course). I'm working on a sci-fi comedy feature today funnily enough - and when I need a break I'll come back to my ghostly audio drama :-)
- Low-fi sci-fi that does mind-bending things in a fun/accessible way
- Proper ghost stories with just enough jump scares to keep things interesting
- Laurel and Hardy in ANYTHING
- Spy thrillers with tension over spectacle, preferably Cold War
And can you imagine what it's like for those of us who don't have the cachet of fame...those of us who trudge through the trenches of shorts...us 'little' women with big ideas banging our heads against walls as we try & try again...what's the definition of insanity again? Oh yeh, a female director.
Ah OK - how is it going now, do you have more writing time? I found that I could work in short bursts between day-job stuff, but I struggled to stitch them together into something sustained.
Thanks Jenna! For me it was more of a side-effect of taking on a busier job for a year; I started loads of projects but didn't actually write any scripts. How did the re-org work for you?
2025 was a big hiatus, so I'm enjoying just writing again. Just finished the spew draft of a spooky audio drama pilot, and slogging through a micro-budget horror feature about eggs.
#Scriptsky