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I am still hoping to get my additional script for Everything Happens (For No Reason) finished before I head to Edinburgh. It would be an enormous weight off my shoulders if I could head north with nothing to worry about apart from getting the stand up show right (and doing my podcasts). I think it might be possible. The move to the countryside blew a big hole in my schedule, but I have had a couple of days in a row to think about the script now and can hopefully do more tomorrow. Today my wife and I went to a cafe in a book shop in Welwyn Garden City and sat opposite each other working on our various projects. My wife was writing a book that should one day actually be sold in that shop which is quite exciting. She’s like JK Rowling. I hope so anyway because that is my retirement plan.
I think the script is basically all up there in my head. I just need to apply myself to squeeze it out. It might take a day, it might take a week, it might be still hanging over me in September. But when I actually sit down and force myself to write it is coming fairly easily.
I am distracted by other stuff though. After the success of the Emergency Questions book I have decided to do a Christmas-specific one for release in time for the Yuletide holidays, so I have been a bit distracted by trying to come up with new questions for that. Though it’s quite a fun way to fill time when I am not feeling inspired about the script. I have done about 170 so far though. I think it will be the perfect way to keep the conversation going and friends and family laughing during the Winter Festival. Though it might also cause some arguments. But that’s what Christmas is for, right? It’s a shoe-in for best Christmas gift of the year. But we have to shift some to get it ready in time.
I am feeling ever more relaxed out in the countryside though. And I really have no cause to feel relaxed.
Tonight we watched the Circle, a Netflix film based on the intriguing but ultimately slightly disappointing book “The Circle’ by Dave Eggers. Like the book, the film was intriguing but ultimately slightly disappointing. But it had an impressive cast including Emma Watson as the lead. Assuming she was booked because of her hand size, it’s galling that I came so close to getting the part. Anyway, a few of the plot twists and turns don’t make much sense, but it’s an interesting look at how much privacy we need as humans and the dangers that the internet might control us. And would everything being out in the open about everyone actually free us from shame? Works for me.
