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Filmmaking

Writings, Christmas, Film4, stuff

An assortment to things to write about this evening while I render out 30+ VFX shots for Guinod, a martial arts opera I’ve been helping a friend finish off. It premieres in a couple of weeks at Norwich’s Cinema City, so I’ll be sure to say how it goes. Bulk of my work on it is done, I just have to render all the bits and pieces – a process that is considerably fiddlier than it should be due to a few quirks in the compositing software I’m using. (more…)

By Simon Jones, 15 years ago

Writing

The last 20k

Not found the time to blog either here or over at Potential Gamer for over a month; similarly the Spiffing Review has taken an unfortunate back seat. That’s what NaNoWriMo does to you. It’s over now, of course, and I’m exceedingly pleased to have made the 50k word count within Read more…

By Simon Jones, 15 years ago

Writing

And so it begins…again

NaNoWriMo 2009 has begun. It being the annual, global challenge to write a 50,000 word novel during the month of November, from start to finish. To do so means writing about 2000 words per day, which in theory should be entirely doable. On my first day yesterday I hit 1,792 Read more…

By Simon Jones, 15 years ago

Writing

Climbing the mountain (with a sled full of meat)

Only my fellow FXhome colleagues will understand that obscure subject line. It’s my birthday tomorrow! Although I only really remembered this evening, thanks to my parents, Wayne, James and Lucy unexpectedly buying me lovely presents (well, I presume Wayne’s is lovely, I’ve not actually opened it yet. It might be Read more…

By Simon Jones, 15 years ago

Writing

At the final count: 159,803 words & 471 pages

My claims of “first draft compete!” earlier this week were slightly premature. Since then I’ve done some additional fiddling and formatting and only NOW have a proper first draft. Quite a respectable length, really – about 25,000 words short of Dune. Whether the quality is worth speaking about remains to Read more…

By Simon Jones, 15 years ago

Writing

158,380 words. 425 pages. 1st draft complete.

A handful of minutes ago I complete the first draft of Evinden, the novel I’ve been working on for the last nine-or-so years (about six of which involved the main writing part). It’s taken me far longer than it should have and there’s still work to be done to fill Read more…

By Simon Jones, 15 years ago

Filmmaking

149,566 – War! What is it good for?

Well, it’s good for exciting finales, for a start. But I’d better say no more for fear of dropping too many spoilers. Hard to find time to write the last few weeks, what witha combination of House Moving Stuff, podcasting and Batman: Arkham Asylum (the compulsion is waning, though, so Read more…

By Simon Jones, 15 years ago

Travels

145,556 – New house, same book

Soooo, been busy. Just moved house, you see, across the city to a lovely detached place in which I can finally unleash full volume surround sound without causing aural bodily harm to the neighbours. Bliss! Despite this I’ve managed to scrounge a few moments here and there to write some Read more…

By Simon Jones, 15 years ago

Writing

Dollhouse season 1

We finished the first season of Dollhouse last night, with the vaguely legendary Epitaph One episode that inexplicably wasn’t aired in the States and was only shown over there on the DVD release. Thankfully Virgin here in the UK showed the whole lot. My concluding thoughts were that it’s now Read more…

By Simon Jones, 15 years ago

Writing

Day off! With lots to do, of course…

I’ve got the day off! Which is rather exciting. I’ve taken this Friday and the next off specifically to work on my book. If I really knuckle down I think I’ve got a good chance of finishing a first draft. Got a million other things to get done as well, Read more…

By Simon Jones, 15 years ago