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A day editing, and learning how to do an á on a Mac... Something you notice editing (which you might not just from writing) is other people...

Wimped out of most of the larking this weekend, ‘cos of feeling like shit. Woke up yesterday with what I thought was a hangover, only far be...

5,561 usable words written today and sent in, linking together something that’s due to be announced any day now. Woo! Last night, splendid f...

A couple of weeks ago, I signed this blog up to Site Meter, partly 'cos of being curious, and mostly 'cos it was free. And very easy...

To see Stephen Fry last night, talking about his new book on poetry . It seems - having heard his excerpts and read up to chapter one – like...

Today, Microsoft Word didn't recognise "microsite". Since I'm hot-desking at work and the defaults aren't my own, it a...

Went to the Trafalgar 200 wossname in Trafalgar Square yesterday, which was fun - especially when a bit of scenery caught fire during the b...

Oceans of time ago, I dragged a mate to an exhibition at the Hayward Gallery to see “Full Moon”, Michael Light ’s vast and remastered photog...

Been to see two plays this week, which is something of a record. On Tuesday it was Mike Leigh’s "Two Thousand Years" , about a gua...

Went to see Serenity again with a brother last night, who was surprised to really enjoy it. Guess over the years he’s had to put up with mo...

This morning I went to a meeting, met some nice people, agreed some things about work, and stared dazedly out of the window. We were on the ...

My eyes have gone funny, having spent the afternoon copying out faded, photocopied, tiny print from six or seven years ago. Well, my fingers...

So it's not another Bad Wolf . Already, of course, there’s talk among Droo authors about which things they’ve written this new show will...

Crap things writers do: Whinge about writing. Miss deadlines. Apologies for being guilty of the former to talk about the latter… Deadlines a...

So, as promised , those lions. The Ghost and the Darkness is not the most brilliant of films and certainly not as good as William Goldman’s...

Stuart Manning is jolly clever, isn't he?

I have made a Dr Who book and it is real. Just this minute received 20 copies of Time Travellers , and have no one but the cat at whom to gr...

Vieing for the top-slot on the telly at the moment: 1) 20,000 dead in an earthquake. 2) Old plasticine lost in fire. Admittedly the latter i...

A fun night last night, arguing through the details of A Project. We also had chips and covered a range of topics probably best not repeated...

Lost Museum has got 5 stars from Doctor Who Review . "It excels on every level," they say. Hooray! That said, they also gave 5 sta...