Guerrilla Tactics

I’ll admit that I am still licking my wounds over the result of The Play’s The Thing. But one thing that it has done is make me more determined to secure a professional production.

That has made me review the way I write and the way I submit.

Watching the programme with my wife, she suddenly saw that I desperately need my own dedicated and private writing area. Not an easy feat when you’ve got small children. But she is a very talented costumier and dressmaker and realises that she need her own area to make what she does. As such we are now making a sewing room and a studio… It all sounds fantastic, but in reality, they are both very small areas… But they are our areas!

As for submissions. I’ve followed the rules. And so far I’ve not got anywhere. So why not break the rules? What is the worst that could happen? I guess it’s just that they enter the circular filing cabinet a little faster than the ‘normal’ approaches.

Hence, I’ve dispensed with the synopsis and sent off a pitch letter.

Okay, I’ve done that before and was luck enough to have three of my manuscripts read by respected agents.

But this time, the pitch is a marketing piece with a hook. A hook that I hope will intrigue the recipient.

Let’s see how that goes.

Now all I have to do is finish my new studio and get back to the serious business of completing these Work In Progresses that are haunting me!