P Published
U Unpublished
F Fiction
N Non-fiction
Some of these works have been published elsewhere. In some cases, works have been optioned and / or had their copyrights reassigned. In this case, extracts are offered as a taster of how my writing style has changed (improved?) over a number of years. This is because some of the works listed on this page are now embarrassingly old, being written whilst still at school.
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The early years
| 2009 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Film review - Star Trek *** | ||||
| 10th June 2009 | U | N | Live | |
| Full film review, including personal insights, into the new feature film version of Star Trek | ||||
| Quarterly film roundup | ||||
| April 2009 | U | N | Live | |
| Film reviews for the months of January, February and March 2009. | ||||
| Quarterly film roundup | ||||
| January 2009 | U | N | Live | |
| Film reviews for the months of October, November and December 2008. | ||||
| 2008 | ||||
| Quarterly film roundup | ||||
| October 2008 | U | N | Live | |
| Film reviews for the months of July, August and September 2008. | ||||
| Quarterly film roundup | ||||
| July 2008 | U | N | Live | |
| Film reviews for the months of April, May and June 2008. | ||||
| Quarterly film roundup | ||||
| April 2008 | U | N | Live | |
| Film reviews for the months of January, February and March 2008. | ||||
| Quarterly film roundup | ||||
| January 2008 | U | N | Live | |
| Film reviews for the months of October, November and December 2007. | ||||
| 2007 | ||||
| Quarterly film roundup | ||||
| October 2007 | U | N | Live | |
| Film reviews for the months of July, August and September 2007. | ||||
| Gloucester floods | ||||
| July 2007 | U | N | Live | |
| A thank you to everyone who's been in touch about the flooding - and an insider's view of what it's like here in Gloucester at the end of the first week without fresh water. | ||||
| Quarterly film roundup | ||||
| July 2007 | U | N | Live | |
| Film reviews for the months of April, May and June 2007. | ||||
| March film roundup | ||||
| April 2007 | U | N | Live | |
| Film reviews for the month of March 2007. | ||||
| February film roundup | ||||
| March 2007 | U | N | Live | |
| Film reviews for the month of February 2007. | ||||
| January film roundup | ||||
| February 2007 | U | N | Live | |
| Film reviews for the month of January 2007. | ||||
| December film roundup | ||||
| January 2007 | U | N | Live | |
| Film reviews for the month of December 2006. | ||||
| 2006 | ||||
| November film roundup | ||||
| December 2006 | U | N | Live | |
| Film reviews for the month of November 2006. | ||||
| October film roundup | ||||
| November 2006 | U | N | Live | |
| Film reviews for the month of October 2006. | ||||
| September film roundup | ||||
| October 2006 | U | N | Live | |
| Film reviews for the month of September 2006. | ||||
| Ones That Got Away | ||||
| September 2006 | U | F | IWroteThis.co.uk special feature | |
| Fictional thought experiment that seeks to answer the perennial question "what if?". | ||||
| August film roundup | ||||
| September 2006 | U | N | Live | |
| Film reviews for the month of August 2006. | ||||
| July film roundup | ||||
| August 2006 | U | N | Live | |
| Film reviews for the month of July 2006. | ||||
| June film roundup | ||||
| July 2006 | U | N | Live | |
| Film reviews for the month of June 2006. | ||||
| May film roundup | ||||
| June 2006 | U | N | Live | |
| Film reviews for the month of May 2006. | ||||
| Film roundup: the missing reviews, part 1 | ||||
| May 2006 | U | N | Live | |
| "Catch-up" film reviews for films watched in the past couple of years. | ||||
| Cheese Rolling | ||||
| May 2006 | U | N | IWroteThis.co.uk special features | |
| Home of the Annual Cheese Rolling Party. | ||||
| April film roundup | ||||
| May 2006 | U | N | Live | |
| Film reviews for the month of April 2006. | ||||
| March film roundup | ||||
| March 2006 | U | N | Live | |
| Film reviews for the month of March 2006. | ||||
| February film roundup | ||||
| March 2006 | U | N | Live | |
| Film reviews for the month of February 2006. | ||||
| January film roundup | ||||
| March 2006 | U | N | Live | |
| Film reviews for the month of January 2006. | ||||
| December film roundup | ||||
| March 2006 | U | N | Live | |
| Film reviews for the month of December 2005. | ||||
| TV review: Movie Lounge * | ||||
| February 2006 | U | N | Live | |
| Review of Five's new movie reviews show. | ||||
| 2005 | ||||
| December pre-Christmas film roundup | ||||
| December 2005 | U | N | Live | |
| Film reviews for the first half of December 2005. | ||||
| November film roundup | ||||
| December 2005 | U | N | Live | |
| Film reviews for the month of November 2005. | ||||
| October film roundup | ||||
| October 2005 | U | N | Live | |
| Film reviews for the month of October 2005. | ||||
| Update: the Railway Rant | ||||
| October 2005 | U | N | Live | |
| More thoughts on the state of the National Railway system. | ||||
| Peter And The Princess [PDF] | ||||
| September 2005 | U | F | Fiction | |
| A bedtime story, in rhyme, best when read aloud to a loved one. (Yes, it does scan properly. I've tried it.) | ||||
| Spot And Puff [PDF] | ||||
| September 2005 | U | F | Fiction | |
| A bedtime story, best when read aloud. | ||||
| To beard or not to beard? | ||||
| August 2005 | U | N | Live | |
| Musings on the state of my chin. | ||||
| Sometimes it's hard to be an individual | ||||
| August 2005 | U | N | Live | |
| The difficulties in becoming a music snob in a connected world. The first "proper" article to appear on IWroteThis.co.uk Live (not including individual film reviews, which are indexed separately, or site news). | ||||
| 2004 | ||||
| Travelogue: Italy | ||||
| July 2004 | U | N | Articles | Email correspondence |
| aka "Is The Pope A Catholic?" - review of a holiday in eight beautiful Italian cities (OK, seven beautiful Italian cities plus one ugly one). | ||||
| 2003 | ||||
| The Boy Who Disappeared | ||||
| September 2003 | U | F | Fiction | |
| A boy on the cusp of adulthood suddenly becomes completely invisible. Short science fiction story that not only satirises current trends in science and politics but also starts to explain that beard I wore for several years. | ||||
| Limited Edition | ||||
| May 2003 | U | F | Fiction | |
| A collection of short stories. As the name suggests, I'm not going to let these out into the wild, but these brief extracts will provide a flavour of the kind of work I have become interested in more recently. | ||||
| Fame: The Musical | ||||
| February 2003 | P | N | Articles | Barefacts |
| Review of the University of Surrey Music And Drama Society's (MaDSoc) annual production. | ||||
| Dr. Strangelove | ||||
| February 2003 | P | N | Articles | Surrey Student Cinema |
| Introduction to film screening. | ||||
| 2002 | ||||
| Corpses And Mountains | ||||
| Autumn 2002 | P | N | Articles | Barefacts |
| Review of two exhibitions in London - BodyWorlds and Earth From The Air. | ||||
| Travelogue: Le Grau Du Roi | ||||
| Autumn 2002 | U | N | Articles | Email correspondence |
| Review of a holiday in the south of France. | ||||
| An Introduction to Microsoft Windows for intelligent absolute beginners [PDF] | ||||
| July 2002 | U | N | Articles | |
| Now here's a challenge. How do you go about explaining Windows to somebody who knows nothing at all about computers? | ||||
| 2001 | ||||
| Bob Smith Starts Work At Deti*a | ||||
| Autumn 2001 | U | F | Articles | |
| Spoof article featuring the company's cheesey but effective marketing device, the cartoon Bob Smith. | ||||
| Murphy's Law [PDF] | ||||
| August 2001 | U | F | Fiction | |
| A comedy with a bitter twist; a spoof with a sting. This is the complete third draft of this feature-length screenplay, including synopsis and character analysis. | ||||
| The Lion's Final Roar | ||||
| Spring 2001 | P | N | Articles | Barefacts (published pseudonymously) |
| Review of the amazing 2000-2001 year for Oscar Film Unit - the year that saw the Outside Screening, the MiniFest and the shooting of the first 16mm film in more than a decade. | ||||
| I Can't Talk, I'm In The Library | ||||
| Spring 2001 | P | N | Articles | Barefacts |
| Documenting the shooting of Jaws In The Library, a short film produced by Oscar Film Unit and starring Luke Hickey and Keri Owen. | ||||
| 36 Hours In The Life Of A Valentinophobe | ||||
| February 2001 | P | F | Articles | Barefacts |
| "Award-winning" Valentine's Day special feature, a semi-fictional and slightly humorous look at the purpose of the annual ritual humiliation. It evidently touched a nerve on the University of Surrey campus. Eighteen months on, the author was still getting "fan-mail" over this article. | ||||
| Club Le Monde | ||||
| February 2001 | U | N | Articles | |
| The very first full-length review of the new independent British feature film. | ||||
| Goatee's Angels | ||||
| Spring 2001 | P | N | Articles | ScreenPro.co.uk |
| Behind the scenes on the set of a new independent British feature film. | ||||
| Government Abolishes A-Levels! | ||||
| Spring 2001 | P | F | Articles | Barefacts |
| Satire of Government's educational policy, written for the Rag Week edition of Barefacts. Not looking all that satirical in retrospect, actually. | ||||
| 2000 | ||||
| Fired Up | ||||
| Autumn 2000 | U | N | Articles | |
| Arguing that fire drills in student accommodation not only lead to embarrassment and resentment, but are actually pointless and potentially dangerous. | ||||
| Stressing Exam Defeat | ||||
| Autumn 2000 | P | N | Articles | Barefacts |
| The antidote to traditional "Defeating Exam Stress" advice. | ||||
| French Film Tour | ||||
| Autumn 2000 | P | N | Articles | Barefacts |
| Review of the 2000 Martell French Film Tour. | ||||
| Feelin' Old | ||||
| Autumn 2000 | P | N | Articles | Barefacts |
| Assessment of the rapid change in student ethos over a relatively short period of time. | ||||
| Looking For Places To Go? | ||||
| Autumn 2000 | P | N | Articles | Barefacts |
| Spoof (but accurate) guide to the most comfortable toilets at the University of Surrey. | ||||
| Yes, But Is It Art? | ||||
| Autumn 2000 | P | N | Articles | Barefacts |
| Guide to the many works of art that often pass unnoticed on the otherwise bland University of Surrey campus. | ||||
| Strong Language | ||||
| Spring 2000 | U | N | Articles | |
| Review of the amazing debut film from Simon Rumley. | ||||
| The Film Society Guide [PDF] | ||||
| Spring 2000 | P | N | Articles | USSU |
| Everything you could possibly want to know about running a film society (assumes the use of 16mm film, which is almost certainly obsolete now). Written for society use Spring 2000; subsequently published internally by USSU, Spring 2003. | ||||
| The early years | ||||
| I Miss You [MIDI] | ||||
| 1999 | U | Misc | ||
| Song (words by Caroline Abbott) in the most melancholy of keys. | ||||
| Murphy's Law | ||||
| November 1999 | U | F | Fiction | |
| The best day of Adrian's life goes suddenly and unexpectedly badly wrong. Can things get any worse? The opening portion to the first draft feature-length screenplay. | ||||
| A New Start | ||||
| Summer 1999 | U | F | Fiction | |
| A community of young people struggle to come to terms with their own survival post-apocalypse. Diary-style medium-length story about my favourite topics of love, death, suicide and Armageddon. | ||||
| Fortune's Fool | ||||
| Spring 1999 | U | F | Fiction | |
| A retired university professor is surprised with some faces from his past. Short story about the ever-lasting grief of a lost love. | ||||
| Witnessing The End | ||||
| Spring 1999 | U | F | Fiction | |
| A young boy watches as his father prepares for the end of the world. Short story about - wait for it - love, death, Armageddon - you know the drill by now. | ||||
| The Voyager and The Lost World | ||||
| 1998 1996 |
U | F | Fiction | |
| In The Lost World, the crew of the Federation Star Ship Promise investigate an ancient mystery. In The Voyager, the commanding officer of the Invicta finds himself being warped through time and space.
Two installments in a proposed series of Star Trek© fan-fiction devised by Rupert Woolger. The former introduces the characters and tongue-in-cheek narrative style: the characters are all based on school and university friends, morphed into "aliens" according to their individual characteristics. The latter combines elements from the earlier episode with sections of the film Star Trek Generations and the amazing sci-fi series Quantum Leap. The story was written two years before the star of Quantum Leap, Scott Bakula, was announced as being the star of the new Star Trek series, Enterprise. |
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| Up My Boar | ||||
| 1997 | P | F | Fiction | Boar consortium |
| A comprehensive collection of amusing, rude and downright crude notes and quotes from the good ol' Judd School's class of '97. Co-written by Ben Raveney, Peter Clark et al. Retrospectively, utterly libelous and defamatory. | ||||
| Corporal Punishment | ||||
| 1996 | P | F | Fiction | Charity revue |
| A savage edit of the funniest episode of possibly the funniest comedy series ever written, enabling the entire episode to be performed in under fifteen minutes, whilst preserving the story and all the jokes. Written by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton, geniuses both. | ||||
| Follow The Leader | ||||
| 1996 | U | F | Fiction | |
| Agents in a top-secret government organisation lose their lives in a bizarre series of misfortunes. An early short story, exploring some of the themes that would become prevalent, but with a distinctly under-developed writing style. | ||||
| Xmas Cross [MIDI] | ||||
| 1995 | U | Misc | ||
| Frenetic medley of Christmas songs, arranged for quartet. | ||||
| Reverie Dans La Crepuscule [MIDI] | ||||
| 1994 | U | Misc | GCSE coursework | |
| Piece for solo clarinet and piano. | ||||