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All week I’ve been looking forward to talking to you because \u2013 please wait for this and picture me savouring telling you \u2013\u00a0I’ve got a film coming out. Next Tuesday night, “Taking Time” gets its cinema premiere<\/a>. I need you to know that actually my contribution is the smallest thing: this is a short film written by five writers and I think I account for about one minute of it. Still, it’s a minute. In a film.<\/p>\n

I’m actually refusing to watch it before Tuesday because I want to walk into that cinema and enjoy it. But let me point you at details of the film because it’s also part of the launch of the Screenwriters Forum<\/a> which you might be interested in. Otherwise, I’m going to tell you more about this next week instead, because something happened last night that I need to tell you. I’m not sure there’s anyone else I can talk to about this as it’s confidential. Plus you’ve already seen through the thin film that is my hard man tough guy image.<\/p>\n

(Hang on. If the film is rubbish then I won’t mention it next week and we won’t speak of it ever again, okay?)<\/p>\n

Anyway.<\/p>\n

Late yesterday afternoon I ran a scriptwriting workshop in Stourbridge Library for Gavin Young<\/a>. He’s a writer, performer, storyteller and at the moment also the Reader in Residence at the library who booked me for this talk. I had a blast. I hope everybody there did too, but I definitely had a blast and a half plus it came at the end of back to back workshops and deadlines. For me, it was like getting to natter with a group of fellow writing nutters. I did have to run away immediately afterwards to get back to writing deadlines, but it was the last event and it did feel like a long week was over.<\/p>\n

It’s early evening in Stourbridge. A dark winter’s evening. Windy. Cold. And raining enough that I shouldn’t have got out my phone but when do I not get out my phone? There was an email waiting with the subject heading “A little bit of feedback for you”.<\/p>\n

I can’t tell you very much at all as it’s to do with work I’ve been doing with school-age kids but because of who sent me it, I knew from her name and that subject what it was going to be about, I knew it was going to be from parents. I crossed my fingers as I tapped to open the message, hoping that this feedback was going to be okay.<\/p>\n

It was.<\/p>\n

There were just a very few short lines and if I could tell you what it was, you’d think that’s nice and I think you’d be pleased for me but you wouldn’t be gasping.<\/p>\n

I didn’t gasp either.<\/p>\n

But I stood in that road and I cried.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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