Resolutions

Yesterday was pretty quiet. I watched the 1988 film Scrooged on TV. It is a comedy update of the Charles Dickens novel A Christmas Carol, relocated from 1840s London to 1980s New York, and stars Bill Murray as a cynical and cruel TV network president who is visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve. It is a funny film, and pretty enjoyable, although it would probably have been better screened two weeks ago.

Later on I was listening to a couple of short radio plays written by Harold Pinter. In the first, Landscape, an elderly man and woman reminisce about their past lives while on a visit to a beach, and the second, The Examination was a monologue concerning a battle of wills during an examination or interrogation.

At around lunchtime I went out to get my groceries for the week, but there had been a problem with the supplier for the supermarket and so the shelves were half empty. I did manage to get some stuff though.

Over the past couple of days I've been reading a book called Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale by Russell T. Davies and Benjamin Cook. Davies is the executive producer and head writer of Doctor Who, at least until he steps down next year, and the book is like a year's worth of e-mails and text messages between Davies and Cook, covering the production of a season of Doctor Who.

Of course, 2009 is now two days old, and the main thing that I want to be able to be doing by the end of the year is to be able to make money out of my own writing.