BAH...!

I know that I really didn't expect anything to come of it, but... Bah! anyway....

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We’re afraid to say that your script hasn’t progressed to the next stage of Laugh Track.

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...and so the world is unlikely to ever see "Wide-Eyed and Wireless", my bittersweet comedy set in the eccentric village of "Nether Buttering" a lovely little place so far beyond the clawing talons of the curse of broadband that it felt like it was in another world, and a place which contained some characters so desperate to finally join in with the technological revolution that they would...

Ah! but that would be telling...

You'll never now get to know the rather lovely people that Cameron and Dierdre were going to turn out to be, or meet Cameron's scheming force of nature of an ex-wife, or be introduced to the strange domestic arrangements of the Fitzpatrick clan, or discover the odd and disparate plans that were being made for the restoration of the grandeur that was once MacTavish Hall...

All gone, all gone...

I had such plans for them, such places for them to go to, and what a monumentally huge hit ratings-smashing crackerjack of a hit it potentially was, but sadly it is not to be...

And so another file hits the shredder and we move on once again.

Or not.

It really is so hard to pick yourself up and dust yourself down when you know in your heart of hearts that you really don't have it in you to succeed at such things, no matter how hard you occasionally try to persuade yourself that you might have. However, I do feel that in life it is just as important (if not even more so) to share your failures than your successes. After all, any fool can gloat about how brilliant they've been at something, but it takes a rare kind of genius to be prepared to confess to the world in general about their abject disasters.

Still, I suppose that it's only the ones destined to be successful that have any successes to gloat about... but that's another issue entirely and it need not trouble us any further today.

Sigh!