This was a new creative adventure that really started for me around the end of 2006. It was something I’ve always wanted to dive into more seriously since taking creative writing classes as part of my Advertising Design course at college.

As a copywriter, working in commercial industry in the nineties, I’d written plenty of short radio and television scripts for advertising campaigns, but never anything more ambitious. That is, until I started my first feature length screenplay, Overwhelming Darkness. Having a full-time lecturing job meant that this was a real labour of love for me and I had to steal time for writing wherever and whenever I possibly could. So lunch times, nights and weekends were taken up by my new passion. All I can say is that I’m extremely lucky to have such a patient and supportive wife!

After the elation of finishing the first draft, just over a year later, I’ve now spent the best part of 2008 working on re-writes and also turning the script into a novel.

This is yet another new and exciting challenge for me creatively and I’m relishing every single minute of it. Oh, and my wife, well she’s as patient and supportive as ever!

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Click below for excerpts from Overwhelming Darkness.

Screenplay (PDF)

Novel (PDF)