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Out to Lunch with Spring Chickens
Blog 13 – Paige Turner is Out to Lunch with Spring Chickens …
Congratulations to Dawn Rae of West Coast Writers who knew that I had been Introducing Characters in Milnerton, Cape Town rather than Popping Plots. Dawn has received her six free handouts sheets.
There is no intentional fib this bi-month as it’s Easter – my favourite time of year and I am ‘out to lunch’ – literally for the whole weekend, having buns and fun and drinking cab sav and celebrating Master Mind’s birthday. As he is marrying our daughter, Miss Trial, next year, I am hoping, like Mrs Middleton, to have lunch with my prospective son-in-law’s grandmother. I am sure to be eating more buns than Mrs Middleton allowed herself at the palace last Wednesday. So here’s to buns in Pinner.
I still have two places available on the Tuesday ‘Get Inspired’ and Thursday ‘Get that Book’ course starting first week of May and a few more on the weekend course May 21st/22nd.
And get those ‘Dear John’ missives into creativeinkpublishing@gmail.com
Happy Easter Bunnies.
Dear John, Dear Anyone …
Dear John flyer
Blog 9 ‘Dear John, Dear Anyone …’ Writing Competition.
Creative Ink Publishing is delighted to announce that Tony McHale –BAFTA award winning producer of ‘Holby City’ and BBC scriptwriter and director of ‘Casualty’ and ‘EastEnders’ – will be judging its ‘Dear John, Dear Anyone …’ writing competition. The best letters, emails, texts or Skypes will be filmed by Creative Ink for Actors and an overall winner will be chosen – unknown to everyone but Tony and the technical director – until the release of the DVD. The overall winner will receive £100 and the runners up will receive free DVDs.
You can write up to 600 words but there must be some kind of ‘brush off’ – romantic or otherwise.
The entry fee is £5 and donated to the British Heart Foundation and Hearts & Souls.
The deadline is July 31st – by email to creativeinkpublishing@gmail.com and pay your entry fee to Creative Ink Publishing by post with cheque (payable to Creative Ink Publishing).
Details: Creative Ink Publishing, 11, Pitch Pond Close, Knotty Green, Beaconsfield, Bucks, HP9 1XY and for full details go to www.janmoranneil.co.uk
Put Your Heart & Soul into it …
Creative Ink Publishing is also launching Patricia Sentinella’s collection of the same name. Priced £7.99 and available on Amazon, Waterstones or send cheque to 2, Church Cottages, South Weston, Thame, Oxon, 0X9 7EF with SAE (two 2nd class stamps).
Master Mind and The Nature of Sins
Blog 2 – by Ms Paige Turner – posted every other Monday
(She tells one intentional fib on every blog – see if you can spot ‘The Porky Pie’. The prize for the first correct emailed answer this week is a free DVD to the value of £10 …)
Bless Mr A. Brick who said that my being no spring chicken must be the intentional fib. I was drawn to giving Mr A. Brick a freebie 1000 word assessment – last week’s prize – but I think he was just buttering me up. A number of gentlemen seemed to think that I couldn’t have possibly sold men’s ties. Why? And it’s true that decimal coinage was introduced in February 1971 but we Woolworths’ girls had to switch over at the end of 1970.
So the winner of my first blogged and intentional fib was Ms Louise Norton for coming in minutes after my blog went on air. Never made a home made chocolate biscuit in my life. Well done, Louise who is writing her autobiography – ‘Dancing around Life’. I had scores of emails – thank you so much. But if you comment at the bottom of my blog, justice is seen to be done and I get brownie points.
I was a brownie in Croydon for only six weeks. I was a gnome: a seriously depleted group of three as every girl wants to be a fairy. After six weeks, I got my uniform and our sixer promptly left. I thought I should immediately get a seconder’s stripe – I was next on the list. What did they do? Fly in a pixie and made her a sixer. That’s life, folks. Whenever you think you’re on the brink of success, they fly in some canny elf else to scoop up your prize.
On to prizes. The prize this week for spotting the intentional fib is a free DVD – to the value of £10 – of ‘The Deadly Factor’ – my play which was performed by Creative Ink for Actors last summer at Barn Hall, Amersham.
There are seven sins. In order they are: Pride, Covetousness (Greed), Wrath, Envy, Sloth, Gluttony and Lechery (Lust). The scenario in my play is that seven actors ‘get into their characters’ shoes’ and as they prepare for their role, they progressively become more deadly. There is a recording contract for the deadliest of them all – and at each performance there is a different ending, unknown to even the real actors themselves. It all set up a jolly good discussion as to which is truly the deadliest of them all and I would be interested to hear your views and why – PLEASE COMMENT AT THE BOTTOM OF MY BLOG. If you go to the site Creative Ink for Actors on Facebook you can become a member and watch our developments posted there along with production photos by the delectable Miss Publicity.
‘The Deadly Factor’ was our eighth production and if some other fairy wins this week’s prize you can always purchase a copy from me and know that your tenner will be going to Project ‘Educating Joy’. Joy is a four year old friend of mine who lives in the Cape townships. We have almost enough money to educate Joy for a year so please purchase a copy.
Look – I know I promised to introduce Master Mind this week but Miss Connect emailed me and said, “Paige, keep this snappy. Less is more.” And I always do what Miss Connect tells me to or I am in danger of pressing all the wrong buttons which happens to be one of my signature dishes.
So alas and alack, you will just have to wait until the next bi-monthly blog posted every other Monday to discover who Master Mind, the delayed character is …
Miss Trial (who always says that justice must be seen to be done – so post your comments on my blog site in case you didn’t get that) and Mr Red Hat are bustling in the wings waiting for their entrance and I must now go! Miss Tea Tree Oil is hovering in my driveway with depilatory wax as I speak …
Hello Chickens or The Importance of Tight Foundations
Blog 1 by Ms Paige Turner
Hello, Chickens or The Importance of Tight Foundations
(She tells one lie on every blog – see if you can spot ‘The Porky Pie’. The prize for the first correct emailed answer each week is a free assessment – up to 1000 words – of your emailed writing …)
I spent the morning watching the polish dry on my toenails, basted a chicken and put it in the oven. I forgot to apply a base coat.
I would like to introduce the first of a plethora of characters: my niece – let’s call her Miss Connect. Miss Connect is into the business of marketing small businesses via websites and has connected my blog from my website to her Box of Blogs. She said a blog was A Shop Window, although it might effectively be called A Public Diary.
I know there is absolutely no virtue in being un-technological. In 1970 when I was selling men’s ties at Woolworths I had to learn to switch to decimal coinage. I’m now just about switching into my menopause and I’m switched on to modern technology – and for fear of Blogging it to Death – here is some news of my professional activities.
There are several branches to my creative bow: Creative Ink for Writers, Creative Ink for Actors and Creative Ink Publishing. This week I will focus on
Creative Ink for Writers – which was established in 2000.
I run two creative writing courses each academic term on a Tuesday and a Thursday morning at the Fitzwilliams Centre, Beaconsfield: Get Inspired – which this term is exploring Familiar or Unfamiliar Faces in Familiar or Unfamiliar Places, subtitled – Let’s Face It. The Tuesday morning faces are delightful but no more delightful than the ones in my Thursday morning group who attend the course: ‘Get That Book out of You’ – for those writers wanting to tackle a bigger project. You can come and taste a class and my homemade chocolate biscuits any time for free if you book a seat. I never run over twelve writers as twelve writers are as much as any one tutor can handle at a time. And how lovely these writers are to handle. Many of the writers attending my classes over the years have contributed to local and national magazines – some even publishing their own anthologies or novels with the help of my Red Auto Correct I include up to 20,000 words assessment in the termly fee and I purport to be the fastest, best and most competitively priced assessor around.
I also write. My last play: ‘The Deadly Factor’ has just been published by New Theatre Publications www.plays4theatre.com. Seven actors are vying for a recording contract with a major producer. The problem is that the seven actors are preparing to play the seven deadly sins and progressively become nastier as they ‘make up’. Which is the deadliest of them all? Well, keep reading my blog and you will find out. But more on sins later …
Watch out on my next blog for news of another feather in my tree: Creative Ink for Actors which has developed from the embryo stage in 2002 to full blown productions and films. Since its inception, many of the delightful young actors and actresses have had babies which do get in the way a bit of productions: Isabella and Freddie, Elise, Saffie and Jacob. In fact some actresses have been fully blown pregnant during rehearsals, explaining why a number of my characters are about to give birth.
Talking of babies, roast chickens like all creative people and projects need child minding so the oven calls. My beauty therapist – let’s call her Miss Tea Tree Oil – told me that from menopause and thereafter one should never look at one’s face in a magnifying mirror with one’s spectacles on. Alas, my days of being a spring chicken are over. Miss Tea Tree Oil also said that not putting a base coat on your toenails before polish is a cardinal sin and that foundation garments are vital.
Thus, with relief, have we come full circle which is such a good place to be and my blessed blog has been founded. I’m happy to publicise your websites on my blog and/or introduce you as a character if you give me work. Until next week then when I shall discuss The Nature of Sins and introduce Master Mind …
Ms Paige Turner aka Jan Moran Neil – www.janmoranneil.co.uk
N.B. Winners of Ms Paige Turner’s ‘Porkie Pie’ competition must email words within a month.
