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25jan20

Current breakfast shake: one scoop plant protein with BCAA, one pinch cinnamon, quarter-scoop of cacao powder, 250ml water. Alive, taking a thinking day. Email can wait.

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23jan20

Offline today.

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20jan20

I should be working on this script today, and will probably put in a couple of hours on it later, but I woke up with another idea in my head, so I may just switch off and lean back with a notebook in a bit. Inbox 15, but I believe it’s a public holiday in the US today, so the water shouldn’t get much higher.

Although.. while I was sitting outside with coffee, I made a note to self to explore the latter part of Peter Greenaway’s output, having last night unearthed my copy of BEING NAKED PLAYING DEAD, the book about his early and mid-period work (UK) (US), and what do I find, clicking around, but a new Peter Greenaway film.

So possibly I’ll lose more time to clicking around today.

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19jan20

Pushing three o’clock and I still haven’t done much of anything. If I can clear my head for a couple of hours I should be able to lay in the spine of this issue of BATMAN’S GRAVE in front of me, an episode which is currently resisting everything except detail and dialogue.

Listening to the new Gaetir The Mountainkeeper, inbox holding at 11. Sometime this evening I will grab a notebook and start reconfiguring the newsletter.

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18jan20

This was a gift. I’m sure everyone at Shakesphere was very pleased with themselves when they came up with the name for their round-bottomed protein shaker.

Newsletter is written, boards are marked up, emails are scheduled, SLOW DAY by Horizon Diver is getting a listen, I’m about to throw PICTURES OF THE OLD WORLD up on the big screen and get some thinking done.

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16jan20

Let me tell you, reader: it does not taste like I’m thriving.

Inbox 17. 2020 work speed started last night. I keep telling everyone, I need a quiet year, but events will eventuate.

If you’re interested, the appalling green sludge there contains:

  • 250ml water, ish
  • one apple
  • half a stick of celery
  • half a carrot
  • pinch of ginger
  • large pinch broccoli shoots
  • eight green grapes
  • five melon cubes
  • scant handful baby spinach
  • scant handful pea shoots
  • one scoop Thrive multinutrient
  • sadness
  • tears
  • a face like a bulldog chewing a wasp
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15jan20

This arrived just in time for a deep-focus day, thanks Ian! Today I have to lay out the story beats for BATMAN’S GRAVE 7, try to solve a middle act in a treatment I’ve been picking at for a few months, review a CASTLEVANIA episode, and find the counterplot in a story document I started last year. I’m gonna need more coffee.

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14jan20

I work with whiteboards a lot. Last year I picked up a pack of 10 A4 whiteboards for twenty quid. Today I’m finally getting around to wiping a couple of them down, and updating others, including the big main board. Transcribed a bunch of scribblings in a notebook into a text file, picking at a couple of other treatments, and thinking about how to structure the next few months. Inbox 20, here we go.

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8jan2020

An old photo I just found: on the tick of New Year’s, Jan 1 2013, I walked across hot coals. Seemed like a good way to see out 2012.

Just wrapped out the first draft of a tv episode, and I can hear a large glass of red wine and a large antipasti board calling my name. For now, I’m marking up a production schedule sheet and my Pending board, rubbing some things off the big board, wondering what tomorrow will bring and daydreaming about a night of walking over fire.

Inbox 5, slowly accepting that I need to buy a new copy of ARK FOR THE LISTENER, queuing up a Carol Swain graphic novel to read later.

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6jan20

This is how we’re getting it done today. Inbox 13 and back to work.

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