Posts about offworld

We're selling a spaceship

With the cockpit/bridge shots behind us, the dauntless Team Offworld find ourselves in possession of a rather swanky looking spaceship set. And, a bit like when Han lost the Falcon to Lando, it can be yours.

Strange Connections - My Tenuous Link to Game of Thrones

Science says I am no more than seven steps from Kevin Bacon. Science also says I am probably no more than ten feet from a rat whenever I'm in London. Life, like writing, is full of strange connections.

OffWorld Begins

The main OffWorld shoot begins today.

What I'm working on in 2017

It's my birthday today. For a lot of writers (or at least a lot of the writers I know), birthdays are a time when you take a look at what you've achieved so far in your writing career and what you've got coming up. It can be a bit of a maudlin affair in some instances.

It even rains in space - The perils of writing weather on alien worlds

A lot of writers ignore the weather. It's sunny when things are good. It always rains at funerals. These old tricks are sometimes considered a part of "The Pathetic Fallacy".  But weather counts, and when you're screenwriting for outside shoots it's more than just mood.

The Day We Read The Script - First Offworld Round Table

Today was the first Offworld "Round Table Read" - that moment when all the actors have had the script for a little while but are now in the same place at the same time for the first time and start reading out their lines.

Writing Dialogue

This week, I took on my first task as co-screenwriter of OffWorld - writing small introductory speeches for each of the actors to record, in character, to be shared on the Kickstarter page.