A (Not So) Brief History of My Creative Efforts – Recap

Posted by on Feb 25, 2010 in Personal, Writing | No Comments

Seeing as I’ve not had a chance to properly research a ‘Gaseous Brainstorm’ post this week, and am off to Aberdeen for a stag weekend tomorrow morning (weather and liver permitting) I thought I’d delve back into the archives.

Those of you who’ve been reading a while and have particularly good memories might remember I started this series about my (mostly ill-fated) creative efforts but never got round to finishing it.

So far I’ve covered up to around 1999, so there’s a decade still to cover. I couldn’t quite keep it as brief as I’d hoped though, and I’d already written a lengthy series that covered around 1999 to 2004 called ‘I Was a Swivel Chair’ which covers a fair few misspent years in shit jobs, behaving like an utter twat and trying to get a comedy band off the ground (and failing spectacularly). Given that it doesn’t particularly paint me in the best light I was reluctant to revisit it. However I’ve decided to put it up here for a short time so anyone who cares can have a read before it is deleted from the internet forever!

Anyway here’s what’s come so far, and what is still to come, as a reminder or for anyone who wasn’t around at the time.

A Brief History of My Creative Efforts – Part 1
 September 3, 2009
So what is all this “Gaseous Brain” nonsense all about? What does it actually mean? Good question….
A brief history of my creative efforts Part 2
  September 11, 2009
FILM OPENINGS After deciding that I didn’t have the excessively extroverted character necessary for a career in the theatre, I decided that being behind the camera m …
A Brief History of My Creative Efforts Part 3 – A Good Face for Radio?
  September 24, 2009
 I had also managed to secure a decent bit of work experience with a radio production company called Unique. The course itself made no provision for this, but I was lucky enough to have a cousi …
A Brief History of My Creative Efforts Part 4 – Fear and Loathing on the Job-hunting Trail
 October 28, 2009
 A Novel Idea In my final year of college I also started writing lyrics and other random stuff in a bit of a creative outpouring, due perhaps to the fact that I’d kept my creativity bottled up for so long (or drowned it in a sea of booze might be more accurate) and incre …

Next: I Was a Swivel Chair