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Enjoying Beck’s “The Information”. Nice.

I watched an interesting back issue of ZeFrank’s The Show this morning. He was talking about creativity, and likened it to playing a Sudoku puzzle.  Just staring at a puzzle, at the little blank squares, doesn’t help fill them in. They don’t magically come into being, completing themselves while you watch. You have to fill in the first. And then the second reveals itself. Fill in the second, and along comes the third.

Writing is like that. Nothing is more terrifying than staring at a blank sheet of paper. Nothing flows. There are no ideas. But start to write, and it flows. I think that applies to most things in life. If you just start, that’s half the battle. Once you’re on the road, you are constantly surprised by the nothing of things that help you along and point you in the right direction. So if I can write a list of things I want to do over the coming months, and then write down the first step, we’ll all be well on the way.

So, what are those things.

This website, the ‘playground’. There should be things to play with in a playground. So, I’ll be adding a game, more stuff to watch, and some widgets. My first will be ‘the Nick Dare widget’. More on that soon.

Next is a new project, called ‘Dave Angel, Life Coach’. That’s enough on that for now.

‘The Yowie’ is halfway funded. We are setting a shoot date for early 2008, so it’s (finally!) becoming a reality.

The youCan2 competition goes live in September, and I’m about to shoot some virals for that. They’ll be going live within the next few weeks.

That sounds like heaps, doesn’t it. Not sure where the feature film fits into that schedule, which is a worry. Nor all that guitar playing I’m meant to be doing.

Oh, and did I mention number one is on the way. So. There’s that. There’s always that.

Still, it’s not all work work work. I’ve rediscovered weekends and the joy of hot chocolate before bed. And with so much to look forward to (new Harry Potter book, Die Hard 4.0, The Bourne Ultimatum, The Simpsons Movie, Spring - the season, not the coiled metal – and building a Boori Classic), it promises to be a busy few months.

Expect lots more updates over the coming days and weeks. Starting with myStuff – the complete filmography of Dick Shepherd. Oh, and check out dickTV as I’ve found some absolute screamers of late. As Posh might say, “major”!