Genuinely and unironically, I love that we've finally made it through the "every movie is a Marvel" era and reached "every movie is an adaptation of two sentences Stephen King wrote on the back of a napkin while doing cocaine".

It’s the FINAL WEEKEND to support the Kickstarter to fund my new children’s picture book. Please support if you can, every £ helps. I only receive the funding if the campaign reaches 100%. If not, no card payments will be taken. www.kickstarter.com/projects/thi...

Drinking an ice cold pepsi because unlike coca cola, pepsi has definitely absolutely never done anything even remotely morally reprehensible. Mmm, a delicious glass of ethics.

Feral, bloodied, charging through a swirling blizzard... Just some of the experiences I had while writing part of this book. It's my first contribution to the Wrath & Glory line, having had the honour of working with some true Long Fangs of TTRPG writing. I can't wait to get my claws into a copy.

Cheese is the best thing you can do with milk, obviously. Whereas Cheese! (note the punctuation) is the best book you can read your kids. And now @thisisdouch.bsky.social is working on a sequel. Delicious! Pledge for a copy to delight your kids and/or spite a lactose intolerant nemesis.

My pal @thisisdouch.bsky.social is writing a sequel to his first picture book CHEESE! But he needs your help - yes, you! Help back original, smart and funny kids' books. (Or we'll have to put up with celebs writing books called MR POO PANTS EATS BOGEY FARTS.) www.kickstarter.com/projects/thi...

A friend of mine needs help. Please take a look and donate if you are able: gofund.me/56de34023

🗡️⚔️ A storm brews in the Sea of Stars, and the howls of Fenris echo once more.🗡️ Get ready to tell YOUR saga with Sons of Russ, the upcoming Space Wolves supplement for Warhammer: Wrath & Glory. #SpaceWolves #WrathAndGlory #SonsOfRuss #cubicle7 #warhammer40k

🐺The upcoming Space Wolves supplement for Wrath & Glory is nearly here. Prepare for new tales of honour, fury, and the wild heart of Fenris in Sons of Russ. The Collector’s Edition features a beautiful foil-embossed cover with gilded edges and comes wrapped in PU leather. #WrathAndGlory

Part of England’s problem might be that the flag is too easy to spray on things. Imagine if we had something closer to the Australian flag? I can’t see the racists taking the time to lay down a blue base coat before carefully spraying all those stars.

Travelling today while reading a Lovecraft story and I’ve just got to the reveal that the terrible dark thing at the heart of it all is happening *today*, but sure it’s fine, totally fine, not an omen of any sort.

when you let the subject write their own headline

Delighted to say that our film LADRON has been awarded the Screen Cornwall Fylm K fund! Our Crowdfunder - crowdfunder.co.uk/p/ladron-thiev… - launches today so please check it out and share the film far and wide. We are @ladron_thieves_film over on Instagram!

Writing my first RPG adventure. Made a typo while aiming for ‘he leaps forward with a savage howl’, which autocorrected to ‘he leaps forward with a sausage’. Sure, it changes the emphasis of the encounter… but I’m not 100% against it.

Friends, clients, would-be wealthy benefactors! It has come to my attention that some emails I’ve been sent have been mysteriously waylaid by the warp, en-route to my inbox, and I haven’t received them. It sounds like some made up bullsh1t, I know. But alas, I have proof.

Some monsters I painted for Tribes & Tribulations, for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. Really dug the darker vibe I was asked to hit for these.

Writers, have you been asked to work for free? Then join our call for evidence on the type + amount of free work that's been requested of you over the past 12 months to help us identify + tackle the problem Open to non-members too! #scriptskyuk #screenwriting writersguild.org.uk/free-work/

A writing credit on a new radio show (for me) AND I get to spend all day writing for an IP I grew up loving? Good day to be a freelance writer. For balance, yesterday my car cost me £150. They can’t all be winners.

Opened Twitter for the first time in a while. "I wonder if it really is as bad on here as we all made out"... First tweet I see is sponsored one for a testosterone supplement, with the undeniably arresting headline "this drained my man boobs". So yeah.

Please help us with this really important bit of research. Any information you give us is confidential but will help us understand the scale of the problem and tackle it. Please share.

First beach day of 2025. Falmouth, Cornwall.

This review of a glue gun has left me with questions…

Guys, try to remember that Easter isn't about chocolate or getting two days off work. It's about hot cross buns loaded with heart-stopping amounts of butter.

Why have I gained 50ish followers in the last two days? Who’s added me to a “people who don’t really post and therefore won’t bother you much if you follow them” starter pack? Come on, own up.

Oh my! Turns out we’re back next week!

At my kids' school last night for an awards thing, and they had 'screenwriter' up as a viable career option! Obviously, I corrected them and had it taken down.

Mad, I thought they just used oats

spring has officially arrived! (just saw a builder with his top off)

Devastating news for the writing community, a huge blow to our members who write for River City, to loyal audiences, and another serious erosion of continuing drama Read our statement in full on the cancellation of BBC River City from 2026 writersguild.org.uk/river-city/

People within commutable distance of Edinburgh! @agarrickwright.bsky.social and I are doing an in person workshop on topical comedy for @humourmill.bsky.social All the cool kids are writing it - join us!!

BLOODY HELL

Utterly immersed in this from @jamesbluecat.bsky.social, laughing out loud on the balcony (shout out to the long awaited end of winter) and also look how pretty

Finally, some good news. Excited to read this from @jamesbluecat.bsky.social

therapist: you said you're struggling with feeling stressed? me: no not struggling, I'm very good at it

I'm a nearly-72 writer, and the best advice I ever heard was from the brilliant comedy writer Sam Bain. Basically, he said that when you're writing you need to be supple, not clenched. As advice goes it's simple, essential, and true.

Read over the first draft of my new pilot today and it’s definitely not the worst thing ever written. So that’s a promising start.

We have a plumber round who is constantly talking to himself as he works. I just heard him exclaim "inspiration, por favor!" which I'm not convinced is a good sign...

Had five cups of coffee today. I can see the future! And the past! I might be dead!

Highly recommend listening to the Succession soundtrack and sitting in a cafe window. Suddenly every passerby is on their way to a board meeting, a high stakes negotiation, an Oedipal back stabbing and/or weird sex thing

The Franchise is delicious, increasingly so as the series goes on

Tomorrow I’ll be flying on someone else’s dime for a TV (training) thing. However any shred of feeling accomplished or glamorous is fairly strongly counterbalanced by the fact I am currently airing out my backpack with a hair dryer, because it smells strongly of Cornish pasties.

It's unlikely I'll ever get to do the keynote speech at the Edinburgh television festival, but if there's a terrible admin error one year my speech will just be me yelling PAY YOUR WRITERS over and over again for an hour.

Day nine of flu / covid: hopes and dreams are a distant memory, impending writing deadlines mock me, goals for the year lie in tatters on the ground

I'm doing wet January. I've overindulged in towels during the festive season so it's time for a detox, drip dry only from now till Feb

If I had a time machine I would go back to autumn and accept the flu shot I was offered or, possibly, depending on accuracy of said time machine, go back to the moment just before I got into a hot tub with a visibly ill family member.

Tis the season of goodwill to all*! *except everyone else in the supermarket today, obviously

Some of the numbers have already rubbed off. Again, let’s not read too much into it.

me in the kitchen: you’re worthless, you’re talentless, you’ll never achieve your dreams recipe: now that you have crushed the potatoes, return them to the oven

Destroyed my last stress ball (don’t read too much into it), new one is cool though

Just ate an entire exploding candy terrys chocolate orange and now I feel weird? Life is so unfair