Friday 24th January 2020

Stuff is building up. I've got the filming dates for the HG feature movie through from the director...we finish filming 2 days before my wedding. It'll be fine, yeah?

We bought a house last week, too, that's all a bit grown-up. It's our dream home, 4 bedrooms, nice area, so many bathrooms, 3 floors. A's parents have helped us out a bit to get us over the line, but we move in April. I have to get life insurance and everything.

Cracking morning at favourite school, then got angry with the A14 roadworks but still made it to regular school for another 2 hours.

2 decent private lessons followed.

Evening I met up with Alan and Sam to go over the new script and, I don't know, it put me on a bit of a downer. I really, really respect Alan's opinions, and he was probably right. This one was "entertaining" but "needs a little work in places" - he then went on to say that it was just a very 'nice' play, and in the right hands could be a tidy little show. Having heard the read-through, I agree. It's nice. Not exciting. Nice. He went on to say how he thinks Harvey G should run for another three or four years, and how much he's enjoying the podcast sitcom we're recording at the moment. But this one doesn't quite hit the mark, it's fine, it works, it tells a nice story, but it has 3 stars written all over it.

Not everything can be brilliant, I get that (my work ranges from big hit to major failure, often within the same year), but it's still annoying having spent a while writing this one. Not that one person's opinion means everything, of course, but I understood what he was saying. Sam is great - she understood it, but equally felt daunted by the very long monologue bits.

It's a fine little script, that I'll come back to with fresh eyes at some point. Alan and Sam both want to do Edinburgh, and both seem keen for me to write them something. We've set a deadline of the end of February for a new script.

I'm loving Ben Folds' book at the moment, for many reasons, mostly though because of his restlessness. I want to have that level of energy in my work, too.

I've got plenty on the go; the podcast sitcom, the BBC Radio thing, HG - stage show (tour and fringe), HG - feature movie, 2 bands, more with WAS, too much teaching work, a house move, a wedding...but I just need one more project, just one more to keep me excited.