{"id":476,"date":"2011-08-16T12:04:57","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T12:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/?p=476"},"modified":"2011-08-16T12:12:13","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T12:12:13","slug":"state-of-play-16-august-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/index.php\/2011\/08\/state-of-play-16-august-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"State of play &#8211; 16 August 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>New and imminent<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Bad Haven interview\" href=\"http:\/\/www.badhaven.com\/interviews\/interview-with-schools-out-author-scott-andrews\/\">Bad Haven talk to me about stuff,<\/a>\u00a0including\u00a0my involvement with the film of School\u2019s Out.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.massmovement.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=11010\">Mass Movement Magazine review Highlander: The Four Horsemen<br \/>\n<\/a><em>\u201cMoran and Andrews have taken show favourites and crafted incredible tales that carry the legacy of the show to new realms.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/em><\/li>\n<li>I have a long memoir in the second issue of the amazing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colinbrockhurst.co.uk\/vworpvworp\/\">Vworp Vworp<\/a>. It&#8217;s all about growing up as a reader of Doctor Who Weekly \/ Monthly \/ Magazine and it&#8217;s illustrated by the brilliant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leightonnoyes.com\/\">Leighton Noyes<\/a> (who was sweet enough to send me his original illustrations to adorn the walls of my new house). I must admit to being quite awfully pleased with the piece in question (Hubris? Moi?) and I urge you to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colinbrockhurst.co.uk\/vworpvworp\/?page_id=420\">pre-order issue two right now<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>In progress<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Finessing the dialogue, mission briefs and cut scenes for this:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PxK5Rmb6YRI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Writing up my notes on the first draft of the screenplay based on School&#8217;s Out<\/li>\n<li>Trying to come up with a good short story for an anthology that asked me contribute \u2013 two weeks left and I have an inkling of a piece, but am wrestling with whether it&#8217;s too dark for me to put out there, or whether I can even pull it off&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Pitching an audio drama for my fave franchise \u2013 my first pitch was rejected, but the door\u2019s still open (I think\/hope\/pray)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Plus, you know, buying my first house, working 9-5, raising two kids, all that jazz. All of which may explain why I\u2019m so puffed out that the new novel remains stalled at 20,000 words &#8211; for now. Fret not, it will get done. Next year, probably.<\/p>\n<p>If only I could NOT be a writer, life would be so much easier! But somehow I just don\u2019t know how not to write things, dammit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New and imminent Bad Haven talk to me about stuff,\u00a0including\u00a0my involvement with the film of School\u2019s Out. Mass Movement Magazine review Highlander: The Four Horsemen \u201cMoran and Andrews have taken show favourites and crafted incredible tales that carry the legacy of the show to new realms.\u201d I have a long memoir in the second issue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,8,24,19,11,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abaddon-books","category-audio-drama","category-fiction","category-film","category-memoir","category-schools-out","category-script"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487,"href":"https:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions\/487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}