I read Eyeless in Gaza by Aldous Huxley many years ago and its title has stayed with me ever since. Gaza, in the sense of our perceptions of both inner and outer worlds, is such a different place for everyone, some don't even know it exists. For me Gaza is a place I go to when I want to chat to myself or listen to my inner friends, now main characters in the novel I'm currently working on. Gaza is also the place from which I can go on any adventure I chose. Any story, any a

I’ve often wondered what it must be like to be an extra in a film. Extras, or supporting/background artistes to use the technical term, are essentially human props or moving background. They can add context, mood or scale and are often the film ’audience’ for the story. I got to find out what it was like first hand last Friday. I’d volunteered as an extra for a charity drama being produced by Chris Jones, Filmmaker and Creative Director of The London Screenwriters' Festiv

One of the things I loved most when I was on MET Film School’s ‘From Story to Screen’ course last year was being on set. I wasn’t expecting to like it so much. Before doing the course, I suppose I’d only really thought about the screenplay and the finished film, I hadn’t really given that much thought to the process of actually making a film beyond things like getting interest in my script, finding agents/producers, ‘someone’ making the film, and finally the film either do