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The blog of writer and producer Simon Guerrier

Sunday, August 31, 2008

80806

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That's the word count on the as-yet-unannounced thing I've finished this weekend, bar another quick pass. It goes to the bosses tomo...
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Friday, August 29, 2008

Service provider

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"We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do. We notice computers, we don't notice pennies. We notice ...
Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Whiskers on kittens

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The writing continues apace, though late into the night. And on the back of something I cut from it earlier, here's five guilty pleasure...
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Monday, August 25, 2008

Chapter 11...

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...of something that cannot be spoken of yet includes the words "submission", "handcuffs" and "groin".
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Sunday, August 24, 2008

Swamp of Horrors (1957)

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Clever Michael Rees had posted the following fun effort to YouTube, as a promo for his story in Doctor Who and How The Doctor Changed My Lif...
Saturday, August 23, 2008

I say you are, Lord, and I should know...

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The Dr extracted me from the frantic scribbling for a trip to the British Museum's Hadrian exhibition . Being in the old reading room an...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Yeah, but dogs - - from space!

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The new issue of Doctor Who's Magazine has just arrived, full of fantastic stuff. It also makes mention of a few things I have been inv...
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008

40 long

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Just back from a shopping trip to buy a linen suit. I used to have a linen suit, but it was one of the things that got pinched by burglars i...
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Monday, August 18, 2008

Monsters and dinosaurs

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On Saturday, I had a whole day of not writing. Instead, I met up with seven of the authors of How The Doctor Changed My Life , plus Paul who...
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Friday, August 15, 2008

Put him in the curry

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With the Dr away in the Darkest North at the moment – apparently teasing her Dad about his becoming a Writer – I made tea for a few chums la...
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Thursday, August 14, 2008

There's a new and deadly danger facing us

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The Restoration Team who make old-skool Doctor Who look pretty, have released a fantasto-brilliant trailer for their next DVD release . ...
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Batsha sengathi yizibhanxa

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Hooray for my cousin G, who asked a favour of a waiter on my behalf. I now have the opening line of something mammoth I am writing. Well, no...
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Monday, August 11, 2008

Ere I am JH

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Oh lucky you. Here's another of those sort of posts. This morning I delivered a 4,400-word short story for something that's not yet...
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Sunday, August 10, 2008

That fits

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Nimbos , the Dr and I braved the grey drizzle yesterday for a nose round Battersea Power Station – which is open to the public at the momen...
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Saturday, August 09, 2008

"A lion covered in bees!!"

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Watched some of the spectacular Olympic Games opening ceremony while smashing my limbs against the machines in the gym. Say what you like a...
Friday, August 08, 2008

Lions are frightened of helicopters

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Or at least they were 40 years ago. A fun new collection of BBC archive films and documents on aerial journeys (clearly nothing at all to do...
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Thursday, August 07, 2008

Colour supplement

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A couple of people have emailed to say they found this 'ere blog difficult to read, and blamed the colour scheme rather than my witterin...
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Wednesday, August 06, 2008

Well, duh

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The BBC news is reporting that a man found in a bed at his Lancashire home is believed to have lain undiscovered for more than two years . ...
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Slap! Bang!

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Until last night I'd never been inside the Albert Hall. My first thought was “bad CGI” - it's such a huge place inside, oval and som...
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Tuesday, August 05, 2008

Atlatl and Jodrell Bank

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The Dr came home from work last night with a fun top fact. Woomera - the Australian home to the British rocketships during the 1950s and 60s...
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