Now that my book has COMPLETELY SOLD OUT (a hundred copies, sold out within 8 months...not bad, I guess) I realised I needed to somehow have something to sell at shows so I spent the morning recording short stories on my phone. It's really easy to edit and touch them up to make them decent audio quality, but that doesn't help the poor performances of them - which they were. They sounded like a tired man, in his pyjamas, reading from a laptop - which they were. I then remembered that I had a really good audio release, Short Stories for Lanky People, already nailed - it was a live recording from a year and a bit ago, that I could just burn more copies of so I shall do that. That was a really good recording of a good night - there was a nice buzz in the audience that evening. Slightly annoyed though that I spent 4 hours today working on lesser material.
Made up for it by going on a bit of an admin drive, sending out more emails. Confirmed show offers for Northamptonshire, Louth, Oxford, Norwich and Sutton - productive stuff!
In the evening Izzy came over and we read through The Terrible Date. An odd one, structurally it's fine, there's some nice lines, the characters are defined. We decided to not film it because we just weren't excited by it. We've done a lot of good projects together over the years, this one was nice but as soon as we finished reading we just looked at each other and decided against it. I can't put my finger on it, but it just didn't feel right. It's a nice script, I'll come back to it another day work out what ingredient it's missing.
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