JULIAN'S BRAIN » Writing

Taking the red pill…

Julian — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:42:53 +0000

Thanks for all your emails and comments. You’ve all been really nice and overwhelmingly supportive of my decision to leave Twitter. When I say “all”, I’m obviously not including @misterdevans, whose comments on the subject have marked him out as the kind of twisted shitbag I’ll be very glad to see the back of. Not [...]

A few more thoughts…

Julian — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:57:13 +0000

So I’ve been gone from Twitter for an hour or so now and it is weird. Something came on the TV and I opened Tweetie, without thinking, to let people know about it. Tweetie told me my account no longer existed. A strange feeling. I think it will work out though. The half of me [...]

Beginnings…

Julian — Mon, 18 May 2009 10:31:55 +0000

I decided I was going to make a film. That was what I wanted to do, I wanted to make films. I'd wanted to make films since I was about eleven years old. Go to film school? I couldn't afford it and I didn't really believe in it. I didn't think I could learn anything in a classroom that I couldn't learn better and faster by doing. I still believe that about pretty much everything (although, if you're about to operate on me, I'd love you to have passed some exams).

David Lynch: Fishing For Ideas…

Julian — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:34:02 +0000

More exposure to excellence here (it's good for you, suck it up). Very few people understand the possibilities of cinema like David Lynch...

A day in the life…

Julian — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:37:57 +0000

I thought it might be interesting to journal a day in the life of a writer-director (me!) during the last days of a TV edit. It turns out it wasn't interesting at all but I've written it now, so you can damn well read it...

The writer’s toolkit…

Julian — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 21:04:32 +0000

I'm sometimes asked my advice on what screenwriting software to use, so I thought I'd jot down a list of my faves...

Neil Gaiman and Tori Amos – some of the best character writing around…

Julian — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:44:16 +0000

Been meaning to link to these for a while. Neil Gaiman wrote them to accompany two Tori Amos albums; “Strange Little Girls” and “Scarlet’s Walk”. The first is some of the best character sketches I’ve ever read. The second is a really neat short story entitled “Pages from a Journal found in a shoebox left [...]

New Tricks – the story so far…

Julian — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 19:12:27 +0000

I realise that I have jumped into journalling my day-to-day experiences making “New Tricks” with no “backstory” whatsoever. For those who require some context, or mistakenly believe that it might somehow render this journal more interesting, here’s the story so far: I directed two episodes of New Tricks earlier this year (Season 5). I really [...]