Hi, this is my creative blog. I finished the script writing for stage and radio course and I've just finished the first year of the Oxford University Undergraduate Diploma in Creative Writing. Its been demanding to say the least but now I've a couple of plays under my belt, some screen writing experience, lord knows how many poems and some short stories. It's time to make some choices and for me it's all about script. I guess it was inevitable I'd end up writing a film and a game the only question is which comes first?. Answer. None of the above. The story comes first! The game/film is a mashfusion of enterGameMent. Watch this blog.

To try and preserve at least a modicum of sanity I'm doing the beat sheet first. Once the spine works the rest of the skeleton can be added and then the inspirational muscle. Right now I'm a writer / director that has (for the first time) to write the script and handle the characters and the lighting and the sound (not to mention the wardrobe, cutting room and post production!) I'm glad I tackled the sound first in what seems a lifetime ago now but in reality only a few years. Prose and Poetry only come to life when you read them out loud and then playback and listen.

Mental, impossible, scary crazy stuff, over excited, over worked, underpaid? Yup! but read 'Getting Real' at http://gettingreal.37signals.com/toc.php and you'll see how I'm working. Better still read the book they publish 'Rework'. Probably the only business book you'll ever need! In a nutshell, use whatever you can lay your hands on (legitimately), cut the corporate crap and get it out there bite size. Here we go then, here's the blog.

Joe Claxton, Oxford

www.falconcreativeuk.co.uk