MissUnderstanding

Spitballing is a weird term. For me, it conjures up the image of; gun-toting cowboys leaning nonchalantly against a bar; whisky glasses being slid along the wood to be caught and downed in one fell swoop; slit eyes keeping watch on the saloon doors as they chew ‘tabaccy’ before ejecting the gunk into the spittoon [...]

I’m just back from watching Water for Elephants, the latest Robert Pattison film. I’d deliberately avoided going to see this until I’d finished my own film script – also a romantic drama, set in a travelling circus in the 1930s. (Yes, how annoying was it for me to find out this film was coming out?!) [...]