The solar eclipse on 6th February (7th in some parts) will likely be significant for scriptwriters (closure, moving on - an end to the WGA strike is indicated - ha!) Benefits may not be seen until a few days afterwards.
For writers who want to know more about what the February eclipses have in store, read TJ Macgregor's horoscopes for writers at Booktalk - they've just been updated here.
Showing posts with label eclipses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label eclipses. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
lunar
Partial lunar eclipse today and a new moon - not visible from these (or those) parts at all but it is supposed to be about beginnings.
I remember last September 22nd eclipse was the first day of a shoot. We were actually shooting during the time of the eclipse at a large local observatory - so at the appointed time, the place was suddenly swarming with eclipse-watchers filing into the smaller observatories. Then just as everything grew chilly and the shadow crossed the sun (or whatever way it happened) production phones started ringing crazily with the powers-that-be bizarrely telling us that we weren't authorised to shoot (!) and ordering us to stop immediately. So much crisis management was going on in the background.
My advice to anyone planning to shoot during an eclipse? Avoid it.
I remember last September 22nd eclipse was the first day of a shoot. We were actually shooting during the time of the eclipse at a large local observatory - so at the appointed time, the place was suddenly swarming with eclipse-watchers filing into the smaller observatories. Then just as everything grew chilly and the shadow crossed the sun (or whatever way it happened) production phones started ringing crazily with the powers-that-be bizarrely telling us that we weren't authorised to shoot (!) and ordering us to stop immediately. So much crisis management was going on in the background.
My advice to anyone planning to shoot during an eclipse? Avoid it.
Friday, March 16, 2007
In between
Yeah well for a little while longer we're still between eclipses and no doubt everything will calm down and go back to normal after Sunday's (which is about beginnings). The last one March 3rd was about endings - resoundingly so (work-wise) for me it turned out - doors slamming shut.. But scriptwriters are the authors of our own fate are we not?
Spent much of today hiding from the phone. Avoidance. I'm really not that interested in burns or God. Sorry..
Then the lady next door (aged 82) came round this afternoon to yak mainly about the woman opposite and how she's coping after burying her husband on Tuesday and how it'll all hit her hard in a week or two and how - isn't it odd that - all of a sudden - only one of the two creeping purple blooms in her front garden is flowering now?
I look across and it's true.
So yes I suppose it is.
Spent much of today hiding from the phone. Avoidance. I'm really not that interested in burns or God. Sorry..
Then the lady next door (aged 82) came round this afternoon to yak mainly about the woman opposite and how she's coping after burying her husband on Tuesday and how it'll all hit her hard in a week or two and how - isn't it odd that - all of a sudden - only one of the two creeping purple blooms in her front garden is flowering now?
I look across and it's true.
So yes I suppose it is.
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