Niall Leonard, Screenwriter and Codologist
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Born in Northern Ireland, raised in Newry, Co Down, I now live in Brentford, West London, for reasons which escape me...

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  • Notes on the Bleeding Obvious This year I took part in NaNoWriMo, a worldwide event where participants spend the month of November writing a short novel (50,000 words, the same length as Brave New World ) in thirty days, at 1,667 words a day.  I’m pleased to say I stayed the course.  In fact as a professional writer I thought I should aim for a total of 60,000 words, and ended up writing 70,000. I don’t know if the finished product is any good or not – it’s too early to say – but the point was not to be brilliant, the point was to have written a novel.  My friends and family will attest that I have been loudly promising ...
    Posted 14 Dec 2011 02:56 by Niall Leonard
  • Absence of Malice The tens – nay, dozens – of readers who follow this blog may have been wondering about my recent resounding silence.  The fact is that for all of November 2011 I have been taking part in NaNoWriMo, a world-wide organised hysteria where the aim is to write a 50,000 word novel in a month and share the inevitable fear, exhilaration and frustration at the same time as one hundred thousand other people doing the same thing.  Even at its most challenging it is so addictive and engrossing that I feel guilty just writing this note instead of getting back to my text.  But I am learning, and relearning, an awful lot, and some day when it is over I will ...
    Posted 22 Nov 2011 04:50 by Niall Leonard
  • Not Getting It In Writing My agent, the lovely Valerie Hoskins, recently launched the website www.vhassociates.co.uk to show off her stable of writers (I’m the niffy old mule at the back… be careful, I bite) and very generously asked me along.  Of course, wherever there shall be more than one writer present, there shall be also bitching and moaning (see war stories below) and I found myself recounting one particular incident that usually I manage to blank out of my mind.    A few years back I was hired to do a rewrite on an episode of new TV series, very close to shooting.  The director – an old film-school friend – had recommended me to the producers as someone who could write ...
    Posted 17 Oct 2011 03:15 by Niall Leonard
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