"I... drove to the Hotel de Paris like a lord, in a cab I hired for my last fifty copecks."
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky - "Notes from Underground" Hello chaps and chapesses,
You'll be ecstatic, I'm sure, to learn that Simeberg is hitting the airwaves!

I recently completed this film for Current TV, which will be my first broadcast piece. I'm not sure exactly when it's going out on TV (soon, I hope), but for now, you can see it on the trusty internet.
And I need your help with it. That's right, you.
So, if I could prevail upon you for a few minutes of your precious time...
1. Go and watch it here:
[link]2. Tell them how much you love it - either by leaving comments on the piece or by clicking the "I like it" button on the top left of the page.
3. Spread the word! I don't have that many watchers here, so if anyone could give me a little promotion, that would be wicked.
4. This piece was actually a sort of pilot for a series idea I had called "Reconstructikon". The idea is to take real life stories, both big and small, and dramatise them featuring the real people as themselves. The phrase the current exec coined was "dramadoc". Anyway, I want to make more and to do that, I need life stories. So, whether it was just a moment of contemplation (like this one) or something bigger - an event, something that happened to you or someone you know - I'd love to hear some of your life stories. Oh yeah, and you'd have to be willing to appear in them. At the moment the budget's not really big enough to take it outside the UK, but you never know, so whoever and wherever you are, if it's a good story, whether funny or heartbreaking, profound or silly, I want to hear it.
Help me out and I'll love you forever!

Go on, show me what you what you're worth, dA!
Check it out!
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Devious Comments
Which is probably what I'll end up doing. But for what it's worth, here are my reflections:
Though I have never written exclusively for a lover or object of desire, I have been (and in some respects still am) in the position of writing to please one person. Of all my various collaborators, the one I have worked most closely with and for the longest period of time used to dominate my output. He is probably the most up and coming of the filmmakers that I work with, and as he is the most likely person I know to be directing a feature film in the near future, I found that for a couple of years or so my writing was pretty much all about trying to provide him with that first feature script. He championed a project that I had written before we started working together and, though it got some interest, it was ultimately going nowhere. After that I felt compelled to fill the gap. It was clear that he had the means to take a project all the way and I needed to make sure that project was mine.
But that just doesn’t work. In trying to satisfy purely what he wanted, I found that I lost my own ability to judge what was good and what wasn’t – which meant that neither of us was satisfied.
We still work together and both of us are probably stronger now than we ever have been, but in order to get to where we’re at now, I had to go away and rediscover what I wanted out of writing. I went back to prose and concentrated on writing things that I wanted to explore, without looking to anybody else for consultation, guidance or approval. I didn’t even allow myself to jude whether it was good or bad – judgement, after all, is irrelevant; you can never second guess an audience. Actually, “The Monkey Puzzle Tree” (one of my dA submissions) was probably the breakthrough point in this process.
Now, when I write with him, I still have an eye for what will suit his taste, but I also know when to follow my own instinct. I make sure that I keep my own stuff going separately as well, when I love an idea but know it’s not for him (which happens a lot).
I know this extended ramble might not speak directly to what you were saying, but it’s probably the closest I can get in terms of sharing experiences. I’m not sure exactly where you’re at career-wise, but I know you at least edit professionally (I’d be really interested to hear about any publications (past, present, or plans for) and stuff, by the way), so I don’t really want to preach at all – but if there’s a writer in you (and we’ve all seen the proof of that) then there’s only one person who can tell when it’s actually being fulfilled.
I know I might sound like I’m getting a little bit trite there, but hey, clichés are clichés because…
And in any case, to reinforce it, I’m going to quote your good self back at you from your recent article:
“She crosses her fingers, and she writes, and some will read (and some will not), but she must be the one comfortable with her content, and her voice, and her role. It is in discovering this that every woman, and every writer, is truly empowered.”
I hope I haven’t come across as didactic or any of that shit – I never want to come across that way, least of all to you. You know that I – and many others – think very highly of your writing, and it would be criminal to think of you being censored – by yourself or anyone else.
Sheesh, they say that people only write because they want to get laid, but this is ridiculous
And by the way: watch my film! (Link in signature – I’d love to hear your thoughts)
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Yes, I edited it too. It's wicked that you liked it. I am pretty pleased with it
It's always been an ambition of mine to share my nostrils with the world. Perhaps we should start a dA trend of posting nasal hair close-ups. But then again, maybe not...
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I thought it was great. Did you edit, too? It was nice and clean (and fucking funny). Oh I feel so close to you know that I've been up your nose.
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I need to do a big announcement but I'm feeling particularly lazy right now.
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livingcomforteagle is the only one I can see that we have in commen so it might be her.
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Fight the fight or lose the right
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Which friend?
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lovely writing =]
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I haven't really written any prose recently cos I've been working hell-for-leather on a new screenplay to try and hit a deadline whilst chasing rubbish clients, struggling to keep my head above water financially and doing my tax return which is boring me to tears and taking ages, as well as attempting to get some really dull paid work cleared and also finish off what will be my first broadcast piece (very exciting, but more of that when it's in the bag... and funnily enough, speaking of glamour shots... well, you'll have to wait and see).
And how are things at your end? I'll have to come over and read some of those shiny new pieces on your page (not sure how new, but I know there's at least a couple I'm missing out on).
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Things are currently in piles and I am trying my best to tend to all of them. How and in what form are things on your end?
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Sorry, I have been neglecting dA lately, but I'm still lurking around.
How's things?
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"We dug a grave, you weren't so brave, a ten gun salute, a tear of dilute ... the rain washed it away ... Nothing more to say." - SonicAnimation
Thank you very much for the
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I like playing with the muds. It is cold and squoogey and made of dead people. The garden is also good because fairies and pixels lives there.
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"We dug a grave, you weren't so brave, a ten gun salute, a tear of dilute ... the rain washed it away ... Nothing more to say." - SonicAnimation
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WOO! I love this game! [link] Check it out, it's tons of fun
My record [link] (okay, now go play the game)
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WOO! I love this game! [link] Check it out, it's tons of fun
My record [link] (okay, now go play the game)
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