Hey, Writer Guy
James GriffinWriter. Screenwriter. Old enough now to feel like I have stuff to share about the craft of screenwriting, the industry around it and the whole damn world, really.
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In the year 2025...
The last day of 2025. The last chance to do that thing where you take stock of your life during this trip round the sun. Or at least the popular culture parts of it because beyond that it all gets decidedly bleak. How many times in the 2020...
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It’s my birthday. I’ve had a fair few of them and normally they’d not be worth writing about. But this one does have some significance as it is my so-called Beatles birthday, thanks to Paul’s little ditty about being a certain age.
Given t...
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Here at the house of Hey, Writer Guy I have been hiding a terrible secret. In my effort to appear cool and suave among all my Substack peers I have kept silent about a deeply troubling side of me.
I play Wordle.
Every day of the week.
No...
Political Thought For the Day
So the alleged Deputy Prime Minister David Seymour (pictured above) wants to change our electoral laws to get rid of “dropkicks” from the electoral roll.
In 1995 it was a dropkick that lost us the Rugby World Cup final.
Clearly a dropkick...
It Was 20 Years Ago Today...
So 20 years ago a TV show called Outrageous Fortune first appeared on the TV screens of Aotearoa. This year, to mark that auspicious event, the good people at Stuff asked me to write a few words about OF. Those words ran in the Waikato Post...
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