Hyde & Seek

I have been kidnapped ! Yes its true, my agent doubtless concerned by the lack of progress on my new work has whisked me off to a dire retreat in the suburbs of Manchester to concentrate on getting something in print by the end of the month. Initially billed as a workshopping session this has rapidly turned into a sweatshopping session. The location "Manchester " (hardly exotic in itself) turns out to be the industrial wasteland that is the suburb of Hyde. The "hotel" turns out to be a pub with pretentions and a prison guard !!

So I've been sitting here in a soulless meeting room staring at an empty whiteboard and grotty flipchart for two days, with nothing but a stack of marker pens, pencils, and blocks of A4 for company. Even the coffee has been rationed to a break at 10:30 and one at 15:00 ! Colditz was never so hard - at least you could bloody smoke there while you made paper aeroplanes !!!!!

I find some scissors and spend most of day one making mockup characters, scenery and props from bits of coloured paper and act out the film, and the next day creating a suitable board game. Tomorrow I'll rip each flipchart page off and stick them together with selotape to form a ladder. I'll be free before the week is out for sure......