I Broke A Girl's Heart

I needed to try and refire my story writing in a hurry. I've been reading a lot about alien abductions lately. Wonder what goes through their minds?

The bunker

Hey, I'm writing a Feature Film Screenplay

I've wanted to for many many years, but have always been afraid to.

Now, I'm conquering my fears, my ADHD, my disorganisation, and I'm having a go. Just as an experiment. Just to see if I can do it. The presence of Prometheus inspires. As does watching all the Lord of the Rings special features...the process of creation is such a wonderful thing.

It's an adaptation, of a very very obscure sci fi novel - will worry about rights later, if it ever comes to that. I'm making changes, making it my own, trying to find something new in the story, trying to make it more relevant to 2012, trying to make a stronger story. Because my primary function is as a storyteller above all else.

I'm writing a feature film.

And I'm doing it from memory.

PIC - Death Star Alternate Designs

here's me just messing around with my secure unit issued felt tip pens. My artistic ability knows all bounds

PICTURE - Ridley Scott on Prometheus set

STORY - New Man New Woman

Someone tweeted "Where are all the real men nowadays?"

This made me think a little. What was a real man, for a start? The same as a "New Man"? Or an "Old Man".

What about women? Is humanity sleepwalking into fatal passivity. I don't know. And I'm not qualified to speak. But I thought I'd write about it anyway.

Copyright Bloody Mulberry 06.04.2012

The Waiting Child

And a good evening to you

So Bloody Mulberry is up and running, and here I am to talk about it.

What is Bloody Mulberry? Well, it is the label I have decided to give my modes of self expression - ugh, cue appearance in pseuds corner in Private Eye - that after supportive encouragement and a bit of self inflicted "Show some balls and get on with it" boots up backside here I am.

I write short stories, and scripts, and also films. In the past I wrote a couple funded by a University and then the UK Film Council, but then things went quiet and I felt, well maybe I'm not up to it.

I always wrote. I just didn't show anybody. I wrote scripts, and got deflated everytime DV shorts or whoever rejected me. Well, now I'm putting them out there. Between here and my tumblr;

http://bloodymulberry.tumblr.com/

You will find short stories, films, stories read aloud, stories discussed, and maybe stories that die on the vine. Other fun stuff will be found too.  Mainly of a sci fi and horror bent, but with a bit of retro and other stuff thrown in.

I hope you enjoy it.